Publications of Barnswell, P.S.

Bak JM, Lukin P. Consensus and assemblies in early medieval central and eastern Europe. In: Barnswell PS, Mostert M, editors. Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages. Vol 7. Turnhout: Brepols; 2003. p. 95-113. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages; vol 7). Abstract

Consensus and assemblies in early medieval central and eastern Europe

Discusses references to assemblies and consensus in the laws of St. Stephen and St. Ladislas (Hungary), in the description of a legal enactment of Duke Břetislav from Bohemia (as reported by Cosmas of Prague), and in the Gesta principum Polonorum as well as discussing general meetings of inhabitants of early Russian towns (veche).