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An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy.
Author : Paolo Squatriti
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Chestnut
ISBN : 9781107250406
An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy.
Author : Paolo Squatriti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1107034485
An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy.
Author : Caroline Goodson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108802273
Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of food-growing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.
Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Italy
ISBN : 9780472080991
Discusses the social and economic development of Italy
Author : Donald A. Bullough
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Paolo Squatriti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521522069
A discussion of the relationship between people and water in medieval Italy, first published in 1998.
Author : Ross Balzaretti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0191083267
A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies on other regions and major historical transitions in Europe, c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans studies based on close archival work, to broad and ambitious statements on economic and social change in the transition from Roman to medieval Europe, and the value of comparing this across time and space.
Author : Neil Christie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1351923471
Only in recent years has archaeology begun to examine in a coherent manner the transformation of the landscape from classical through to medieval times. In Landscapes of Change, leading scholars in the archaeology of the late antique and early medieval periods address the key results and directions of Roman rural fieldwork. In so doing, they highlight problems of analysis and interpretation whilst also identifying the variety of transformations that rural Europe experienced during and following the decline of Roman hegemony. Whilst documents and standing buildings predominate in the urban context to provide a coherent and tangible guide to the evolving urban form and its society since Roman times, the countryside in many ages remains rather shadowy - a context for the cultivation, gathering and movement of food and other resources, inhabited by farmers, villagers and miners. Whilst the Roman period is adequately served through occasional extant remains and through the survey and excavation of villas and farmsteads, as well as the writings of agronomists, the medieval one is generally well marked by the presence of still extant villages across Europe, often dependent on castles and manors which symbolise the so-called 'feudal' centuries. But the intervening period, the fourth to tenth centuries, is that with the least documentation and with the fewest survivals. What happened to the settlement units that made up the Roman rural world? When and why do new settlement forms emerge? Landscapes of Change is essential reading for anyone wanting an up-to-date summary of the results of archaeological and historical investigations into the changing countryside of the late Roman, late antique and early medieval world, between the fourth and tenth centuries AD. It questions numerous aspects of change and continuity, assessing the levels of impact of military and economic decay, the spread and influence of Christianity, and the role of Germanic, Slav and Arab settlements in disrupting and redefining the ancient rural landscapes.
Author : Marios Costambeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521178303
Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political power. But Farfa's avoidance of domination by the pope throughout its early medieval history, despite one pope's involvement in its early establishment, reveals that papal aggrandizement had strict limits. Other parties - local elites, as well as Lombard and then Carolingian rulers - were often more important in structuring power in the region. Many were also patrons of Farfa, and this book reveals how a major ecclesiastical institution operated in early medieval politics, as a conduit for others' interests, and a player in its own right.
Author : Niall Brady
Publisher : Ruralia
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088908064
Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro- and macro-levels. This volume explores how these changes affected how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes.