Mills and the politics of water management in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1050

Carvajal Castro, Alvaro and Escalona, Julio (2024) Mills and the politics of water management in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1050. 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. 225-247. ISBN 979-12-215-0530-6

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Abstract

This chapter aims to present watermills as a component of local political landscapes and as a proxy to power relations and political interactions within early medieval local communities. Research on various European regions has shown that watermills could be subject to complex property regimes, often characterised by partible ownership and shared use. Through the analysis of the evidence from the north of the Iberian Peninsula, the chapter considers the different resources and infrastructures that mills weaved together, analysing different levels of decision-making on which their management relied, and delving into the local landscapes that they contributed to shape.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Research for this paper has been funded by Project NASD (PID2020-112506GB-C44), funded by MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033. Álvaro Carvajal Castro is Investigador Ramón y Cajal (RYC2020-030272-I, funded by MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Early Middle Ages, ninth-eleventh centuries, Iberian Peninsula, León, Castile, mills, commons, landscapes, local societies
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 12:34
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2025 12:34
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/7197

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