How did networks in the Late Roman and Early Medieval world function

>>1837351
>Early Medieval

Lots and lots of gift giving.

>>1837351
Is this bergen? Looks amazing

>>1837358
But that was the basis of the patron-client network in Roman life, no? This must've changed in the breakdown of Roman civ

>>1837367
Heidelberg, Germany. In the Southwest in the state of Baden-Wurtemburg.

>>1837369
I don't know shit about Romans but IIRC patrons usually dispensed money (?) whereas I'm thinking of jewelry, swords, and other valuable, labor-intensive artifacts. Or land or animals.

>>1837351

Ties of blood and personal acquaintance. This is largely why dynastic marriages were so important, they forged new ties between regions which stimulated the economy.

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>>1837372
>Germany.
>churches but no mosqs

>>1837392

What about religious networks with the rise of christianity? I have to write a paper along these lines in a couple weeks and I'm thinking about working in the religious angle. Many of my primary docs are religious

>>1837401
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>>1837406
nvm, I found it :^)

>>1837419
neck urself my senpai

>>1837424
Ignore him

>>1837405
Very important as church officials would judge canon law suits and nobles got caught in sinful tomfoolery pretty often. The same gift-giving applies, think altarpieces, and families would also send their spares into the church.

The church and lay religious organizations would be very important sources of community for lay people, too. Also important as the great continental book club; Iceland apparently converted for this reason.

>>1837509
Thanks, this is what I'm looking for. With these religious networks, there would be both horizontal (co-dependent) and vertical (higher-ups), right? How did they actually function in the time? How would the commoners/nobles use the church connection?

>>1837351
Noice, I can see the house i live in.

>>1837530
Well, the church itself had a pretty definite hierarchy that shouldn't be hard to look up in your time/place. Otherwise shit varied a lot and renaissance art history is my specialty anyways so I'm hesitant to say much about the specifics. But religious artworks in churches were pretty reliably gifts from the local gentry, so if there's good records for that kind of stuff in your area, you may be able to pin down specific relationships.

>>1837552
Wo wohnst du meinen Freund?

>>1837608
Da hinten an der Theodor-Heuss-Brücke

>>1837663
Im 2017 ich studiere bei die Uni in Heidelberg