ITALIAN RURAL LANDSCAPES DURING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: SETTLEMENTS AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

Authors

  • Paola Galetti University of Studies "Alma Mater" of Bologna

Keywords:

Early Middle Ages, Italy, rural landscapes, settlement systems

Abstract

This paper aims to offer a methodological approach to the investigation of rural landscapes, in relation to a brief historiographic summary. It also presents some in-depth analysis on North-Central Italy in the Early Middle Ages: a comparison between different settlement systems; the different shapes of the rural landscape; the “curtis”.

Author Biography

  • Paola Galetti, University of Studies "Alma Mater" of Bologna

    Paola Galetti teaches Medieval History at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Bologna. He studied different aspects of the economic and social history of medieval Italy, in particular the dynamics of the settlements and their material reality. She has published, among other things: Women and work in medieval Italy (with B. Andreolli and M.G. Muzzarelli, Turin 1991); A field and its city. Piacenza and its territory in the VIII-X centuries (Bologna 1994); Live in the Middle Ages. Forms and Events of Rural Settlement in Early Medieval Italy (Florence 1997); The mills in medieval Europe (with P. Racine, Bologna 2003); Wood Civilization. For a history of wood as a building material from ancient times to the present day (Bologna 2004).

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Issue

No. 25/26 (2013): Mediterranean rural landscapes

Section

Dosier Monográfico

How to Cite

ITALIAN RURAL LANDSCAPES DURING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: SETTLEMENTS AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS. (2025). Norba. Revista De Historia - NRH, 25/26, 89-103. https://revista-norbahistoria.unex.es/index.php/NRH/article/view/961