Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe. Introduction

Martín Viso, Iñaki (2024) Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe. Introduction. In: Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe. Reti Medievali E-Book (49). Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 1-6. ISBN 979-12-215-0530-6

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Abstract

This introduction defines the concept of “political landscapes” as the spatialisation of political action through the creation of territories. In the early Middle Ages, elites and states played a lesser role than in the Roman Empire or the Central Middle Ages in the construction of those “political landscapes”. However, social agency of local communities and “micropolitics” increased their centrality and they coexisted with elite initiatives. Finally, the arguments that organise the book are presented: residences, territories, “central places” and churches as places that focused the local arenas.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Early Middle Ages, Politics, Landscape, Micropolitics, South-Western Europe, North-western Iberia
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History D History General and Old World > DP Spain
Depositing User:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2025 06:58
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2025 06:58
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/7187

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