Archaeology of Public Estates
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Archaeology of Public Estates

Origins of Economic Growth in a Mediterranean Region (9-11th Century)

  1. 418 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Archaeology of Public Estates

Origins of Economic Growth in a Mediterranean Region (9-11th Century)

About this book

Archaeology of Public Estates draws on the results of research conducted in the last few years in Tuscany's Maremma region as part of an ERC-Advanced project, nEU-Med, at the same time as reinterpreting previous findings from the last few decades, with the aim of identifying the material 'markers' of royal properties, and understanding how they took shape and were managed between the 9th and 11th centuries. The theme, public lands and property, which has been of special interest in recent years to historians of documentary sources, and which here is viewed through the lens of material findings.


The results of research seen from a new perspective help to identify a possible key for interpreting historical institutions and agents in this part of the Mediterranean, one capable of generating answers that are bound up with larger issues: the role of the public hand (the publicum) in relation to local aristocracies and communities; transformations in the anthropic and natural landscape; the specific features of production and exchange; the timeframe and process of castle formation; and the economic growth of rural areas prior to the great leap forward in the 12th century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About Access Archaeology
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Information
  5. Historical Archaeologies Series
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Foreword
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter I The Pecora river valley and the royal court of Valli
  12. Chapter II The Cornia valley and the royal court of Cornino
  13. Chapter III The Grosseto Area
  14. Chapter IV The religious centres in the hinterland
  15. Chapter V A world apart? The mining areas
  16. Chapter VI Reconstructing the complexity of the case study: clues to a puzzle
  17. Chapter VII Comparisons
  18. Chapter VIII The origins of economic growth
  19. Bibliography