Introduction
- Iñaki Martín Viso
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- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0530-6.02
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.
- Keywords:
- Early Middle Ages,
- Southern Europe,
- Iberian Peninsula,
- landscapes,
- places,
- territories,
- churches,
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Introduction
Authors
Iñaki Martín Viso
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0530-6.02
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe
Editors
Iñaki Martín Viso
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
340
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-0530-6
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2704-6362
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