During the Middle Ages agriculture and agricultural labor was involved in a new system of values, due to the expansion of Christianity, and this valorization had a great impact on society and economic development of Western Europe. Agriculture was considered part of the artes mechanicae and peasants (laboratores) were recognized as one of the three orders of the social representation. However, in the 13th-15th centuries, there were some significant changes such as the shift from serfdom to contracted work, investments in agriculture by citizens, and the development of new connection between cities and the countryside. Historical treatises on agriculture and other public sources provide evidence of these news ideas, that viewed agriculture as the “most useful and necessary” craft.
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Titolo del capitolo
L’agricoltura e il lavoro agricolo
Autori
Paolo Nanni
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.42
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919