Adam J Kosto
Biographic Data
| ID | 5018575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam J Kosto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosto |
| SIGNATURE | KOSTO A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
Documentary culture in Catalonia and England, c .975–1050
The records connected to Oliba (d. 1046) and Wulfstan (d. 1023) offer a compelling method for comparing documentary cultures in Catalonia and England. This article examines documents preserved in each region to guide research into analogous documents in the other. From the Oliba diplomatari , the most suggestive are the most unusual items: inventories, ritual texts, records of oblation, and letters of appointment, all of which find parallels in t…
Un diplôme inédit de Hugues Capet, a. 991
Bien que des historiens aient constaté l’existence d’un diplôme inédit de 991 de Hugues Capet au monastère catalan de Sant Pere de Rodes, confirmation presque verbatim d’un don antérieur de 953 par Louis IV, personne ne l’avait soumis à une analyse critique. Une telle analyse, que nous offrons ici, ne donne pas de preuves positives qu’il s’agit d’un faux, des points de vue de la date, de la prosopographie, des formules, ou de la typologie documen…
The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950–1350
Contents: Introduction, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Alan Cooper and Adam J. Kosto. Part I The Use of Power: Heirs to the Apostles: saintly power and ducal authority in hagiography of early Normandy, Samantha Kahn Herrick The provisions of Oxford: assessing/assigning authority in time of unrest, Claire Valente Abbatial authority over lay agents, Robert F. Berkhofer III Good servants, bad lords: the abuse of authority by Jewish bailiffs in the medieva…
Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350
Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War
Rémy Ambühl. Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War: Ransom Culture in the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiv + 302 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-01094-9. - Volume 67 Issue 1
Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880–1010
JONATHAN JARRETT, Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880–1010: Pathways of Power . Studies in History, New Series. Woodbridge: Boydell for the Royal Historical Society. 2010. xii + 208 pp. The
What about Spain? Iberia in the Historiography of Medieval European Feudalism
This up-to-date discussion takes as its starting point the challenge to the traditional notion of feudalism in the twenty-five years since the publication of Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel’s work on the ‘mutation féodale’ and Susan Reynolds’s attack on the very idea of a feudal society in the Middle Ages. While these challenges have presented a new picture of Western Europe in the so-called feudal age, one more focused than the traditional m…
Acts of Giving
Cavallers, pagesos i templers
The Mozarabic Cardinal
EVEN diligent readers of Peter Linehan's The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century (1971) may find themselves wondering who Gonzalo Pérez Gudiel might have been and why he merits a 600-page biography. Despite serving as archbishop of Toledo from 1280 to 1298, he features in that earlier study—one of the few places in historical writing where he does feature—principally as an illustration of the financial difficulties of the Cast…
Les otages conditionnels en Languedoc et en Catalogne au XIe siècle
Geiseln (Einlager) im Languedoc und in Katalonien im 11. Jh. Obwohl die ersten frühen Zeugnisse der sogenannten « Einlager » (Geiselnahmen die an eine Vertragserfüllung geknüpft sind) in einer kleinen Zahl von Quellen aus dem Bereich südlich der Loire am Ende des 11. Jh. erscheinen, haben sich die meisten Studien über diese Institution bisher auf die nördlicheren und östlicheren Regionen gestützt, vor allem auf die deutschsprachigen Gebiete, wo d…
Laymen, Clerics, and Documentary Practices in the Early Middle Ages
Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300 . Jean Dunbabin
Encounter between Enemies
Hostages During the First Century of the Crusades
The use of hostages as a means of guarantee was most common in the medieval period in diplomatic and military encounters. The Crusades offer an excellent opportunity to study this institution in the context of intercultural relations and conflict. After briefly considering precedent traditions in Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world, this article examines the various specific functions hostages served: as guarantors of short-term agre…
Hostages in the Carolingian world (714–840)
The medieval hostage ( obses ) was a form of personal surety, a person deprived of liberty by a second person in order to guarantee an undertaking by a third person. Although they were used in private transactions, they normally appear in the early medieval sources in the context of relations between political entities. Close to seventy distinct hostage episodes are recorded in greater Francia and the Italian Peninsula in the period 714–840. Draw…
The Liber feudorum maior of the counts of Barcelona
The Liber feudorum maior, the late-twelfth-century cartulary of the counts of Barcelona, is at once one of the earliest surviving lay cartularies and a rare example of an illuminated cartulary. Although much of the original has been lost, its modern editor was able to use surviving single-sheet documents and early registers to reconstruct its contents: over nine hundred individual records in two volumes. Drawing on this reconstruction, this artic…
Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia
Journal Article Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word 1000–1200 Get access Kosto Adam J., Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word 1000–1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix, 366 pp. $64.95. Jeffrey A. Bowman Jeffrey A. Bowman Kenyon College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45,…
Epigraphie médiévale . Robert Favreau
Las Siete Partidas
Journal Article Las Siete Partidas Get access Las Siete Partidas, trans. Samuel Parsons Scott, ed. Robert I. Burns S.J. 5 vols. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. lxx+xxxii+xlviii+lviii+lx, 1492 pp. $135.00. Adam J. Kosto Adam J. Kosto Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 493–495, https://doi.org/10…
Three typological approaches to Catalonian archival evidence, 10-12 centuries
[fr] Cet article tripartite s'inspire de la survivance d'un grand nombre de documents catalans des Xe-XIIe siècles. Il rassemble les conclusions partielles de trois recherches de doctorat menées à partir d'un grande nombre d'actes d'un seul type: documents de publication et authentification testamentaires (Nathaniel L. Taylor), convenientiae et executions d'accords (Adam J. Kosto), et contrats d'accensement appelés precariae (Pere Benito). Dans c…
Hostages in the Carolingian world (714–840)
The medieval hostage ( obses ) was a form of personal surety, a person deprived of liberty by a second person in order to guarantee an undertaking by a third person. Although they were used in private transactions, they normally appear in the early medieval sources in the context of relations between political entities. Close to seventy distinct hostage episodes are recorded in greater Francia and the Italian Peninsula in the period 714–840. Draw…
The Liber feudorum maior of the counts of Barcelona
The Liber feudorum maior, the late-twelfth-century cartulary of the counts of Barcelona, is at once one of the earliest surviving lay cartularies and a rare example of an illuminated cartulary. Although much of the original has been lost, its modern editor was able to use surviving single-sheet documents and early registers to reconstruct its contents: over nine hundred individual records in two volumes. Drawing on this reconstruction, this artic…
Laymen, Clerics, and Documentary Practices in the Early Middle Ages
Three typological approaches to Catalonian archival evidence, 10-12 centuries
[fr] Cet article tripartite s'inspire de la survivance d'un grand nombre de documents catalans des Xe-XIIe siècles. Il rassemble les conclusions partielles de trois recherches de doctorat menées à partir d'un grande nombre d'actes d'un seul type: documents de publication et authentification testamentaires (Nathaniel L. Taylor), convenientiae et executions d'accords (Adam J. Kosto), et contrats d'accensement appelés precariae (Pere Benito). Dans c…
Epigraphie médiévale . Robert Favreau
Las Siete Partidas
Journal Article Las Siete Partidas Get access Las Siete Partidas, trans. Samuel Parsons Scott, ed. Robert I. Burns S.J. 5 vols. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. lxx+xxxii+xlviii+lviii+lx, 1492 pp. $135.00. Adam J. Kosto Adam J. Kosto Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 493–495, https://doi.org/10…
The Liber feudorum maior of the counts of Barcelona
The Liber feudorum maior, the late-twelfth-century cartulary of the counts of Barcelona, is at once one of the earliest surviving lay cartularies and a rare example of an illuminated cartulary. Although much of the original has been lost, its modern editor was able to use surviving single-sheet documents and early registers to reconstruct its contents: over nine hundred individual records in two volumes. Drawing on this reconstruction, this artic…
Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia
Journal Article Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word 1000–1200 Get access Kosto Adam J., Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word 1000–1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix, 366 pp. $64.95. Jeffrey A. Bowman Jeffrey A. Bowman Kenyon College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45,…
Hostages in the Carolingian world (714–840)
The medieval hostage ( obses ) was a form of personal surety, a person deprived of liberty by a second person in order to guarantee an undertaking by a third person. Although they were used in private transactions, they normally appear in the early medieval sources in the context of relations between political entities. Close to seventy distinct hostage episodes are recorded in greater Francia and the Italian Peninsula in the period 714–840. Draw…
Hostages During the First Century of the Crusades
The use of hostages as a means of guarantee was most common in the medieval period in diplomatic and military encounters. The Crusades offer an excellent opportunity to study this institution in the context of intercultural relations and conflict. After briefly considering precedent traditions in Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world, this article examines the various specific functions hostages served: as guarantors of short-term agre…
Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300 . Jean Dunbabin
Encounter between Enemies
Laymen, Clerics, and Documentary Practices in the Early Middle Ages
Les otages conditionnels en Languedoc et en Catalogne au XIe siècle
Geiseln (Einlager) im Languedoc und in Katalonien im 11. Jh. Obwohl die ersten frühen Zeugnisse der sogenannten « Einlager » (Geiselnahmen die an eine Vertragserfüllung geknüpft sind) in einer kleinen Zahl von Quellen aus dem Bereich südlich der Loire am Ende des 11. Jh. erscheinen, haben sich die meisten Studien über diese Institution bisher auf die nördlicheren und östlicheren Regionen gestützt, vor allem auf die deutschsprachigen Gebiete, wo d…
The Mozarabic Cardinal
EVEN diligent readers of Peter Linehan's The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century (1971) may find themselves wondering who Gonzalo Pérez Gudiel might have been and why he merits a 600-page biography. Despite serving as archbishop of Toledo from 1280 to 1298, he features in that earlier study—one of the few places in historical writing where he does feature—principally as an illustration of the financial difficulties of the Cast…
Acts of Giving
Cavallers, pagesos i templers
What about Spain? Iberia in the Historiography of Medieval European Feudalism
This up-to-date discussion takes as its starting point the challenge to the traditional notion of feudalism in the twenty-five years since the publication of Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel’s work on the ‘mutation féodale’ and Susan Reynolds’s attack on the very idea of a feudal society in the Middle Ages. While these challenges have presented a new picture of Western Europe in the so-called feudal age, one more focused than the traditional m…
Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880–1010
JONATHAN JARRETT, Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880–1010: Pathways of Power . Studies in History, New Series. Woodbridge: Boydell for the Royal Historical Society. 2010. xii + 208 pp. The
Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War
Rémy Ambühl. Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War: Ransom Culture in the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiv + 302 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-01094-9. - Volume 67 Issue 1
The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950–1350
Contents: Introduction, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Alan Cooper and Adam J. Kosto. Part I The Use of Power: Heirs to the Apostles: saintly power and ducal authority in hagiography of early Normandy, Samantha Kahn Herrick The provisions of Oxford: assessing/assigning authority in time of unrest, Claire Valente Abbatial authority over lay agents, Robert F. Berkhofer III Good servants, bad lords: the abuse of authority by Jewish bailiffs in the medieva…
Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350
Un diplôme inédit de Hugues Capet, a. 991
Bien que des historiens aient constaté l’existence d’un diplôme inédit de 991 de Hugues Capet au monastère catalan de Sant Pere de Rodes, confirmation presque verbatim d’un don antérieur de 953 par Louis IV, personne ne l’avait soumis à une analyse critique. Une telle analyse, que nous offrons ici, ne donne pas de preuves positives qu’il s’agit d’un faux, des points de vue de la date, de la prosopographie, des formules, ou de la typologie documen…
Documentary culture in Catalonia and England, c .975–1050
The records connected to Oliba (d. 1046) and Wulfstan (d. 1023) offer a compelling method for comparing documentary cultures in Catalonia and England. This article examines documents preserved in each region to guide research into analogous documents in the other. From the Oliba diplomatari , the most suggestive are the most unusual items: inventories, ritual texts, records of oblation, and letters of appointment, all of which find parallels in t…
Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
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