Small Worlds and Relational Agencies: Local Societies in Early Medieval Iberia

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Abstract / Resumen / Resumo

Local Societies, Small Worlds, Micro-politics and Relational Agencies – Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo

Local Societies in Early Medieval Archaeology: a Multiscale Approach to the Peasant Record in Western Iberia – Sara Prata

The Archaeology of Early Medieval Rural Communities, Connectivity and Power in Central Iberia: a Social Network Analysis – Carlos Tejerizo-García

Società locali altomedievali del centro-nord Italia: il registro materiale attraverso un caso studio – Giovanna Bianchi

Movilidad, migraciones y agencia del campesinado en el noroeste de la península ibérica – Juan Antonio Quirós Castill

Micropolíticas y microcristiandades: los centros eclesiásticos del noroeste hispánico altomedieval – Gonzalo J. Escudero Manzano

The Development of Economic Complexity in Early Medieval Cantabria, c.850–c.1050: Reflections from the Written Sources – Robert Portass

Gardens and Water Management in Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages – Wendy Davies

Torres más altas... La construcción política de los paisajes campesinos en las montañas septentrionales del Šarq al-Andalus (siglos III/IX–VII/XIII) – Julián M. Ortega

Paisaje y prácticas sociales: una aproximación microhistórica al estudio de las sociedades locales del País Vasco en la Edad Media y la Edad Moderna – Josu Narbarte, Bixente Hirigarai Labéguerie, Mattin Aiestaran, Oihane Mendizabal Sandonís

About the Author

Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo is Professor of Archaeology at the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. His research focuses on the study of historical landscapes, subaltern groups, and social history. He directs the research project “Iberian Local Societies in the Early Medieval European Context: Settings, Practices and Territorialities”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Among his recent works are “Arqueología de las sociedades locales en la Alta Edad Media. San Julián de Aistra y las residencias de las élites rurales” (2023) and “Local Societies and Peasantry Agencies in Medieval Iberia” (2024). He is currently preparing a volume on the archaeology of the medieval peasantry.