The article examines two explicitly different meanings of the expression 'pervasiveness of lordship'. The first moves from the more commune meaning of pervasiveness, understood as a synonym of capillary diffusion, to distinguish between areas of seigniorial centrality and areas of seigniorial marginality in late medieval Italy. The second meaning understands “pervasiveness” in a less usual sense, i.e. as the capacity of lordship to thoroughly penetrate the surrounding world. After describing this notion of pervasiveness, the article illustrates some examples, drawn from various late medieval Italian regions, of lordships without pervasiveness and of pervasive lordships, questioning the capacity of seigniorial pervasiveness to survive and reconfigure itself in the late Middle Ages.
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9989-6780
Titolo del capitolo
Pervasività della signoria
Autori
Sandro Carocci
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0187-2.12
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Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 4. Quadri di sintesi e nuove prospettive di ricerca
Curatori
Sandro Carocci
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Numero di pagine
470
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0187-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0186-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0187-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0189-6
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079