Despite the significant attention medieval scholarship has devoted to the study of peasant societies, these groups have traditionally been depicted as passive and homogeneous, merely able of resisting pressures from the state or powerful individuals. However, in recent years, the availability of new records, the widespread adoption of microhistorical analyses, and the renewal of conceptual frameworks have enabled scholars to undertake more detailed and nuanced investigations. This collective volume aims to explore the political, economic, and social practices of Iberian medieval peasant societies. A key finding of this multivocal analysis is the revelation of the relative subalternity of medieval ruling groups and the constraints on peasant actions across various geographical and chronological contexts.
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Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
Local Societies and Relational Agency in Medieval Iberia. Two Avenues for the Study of Subaltern Groupspp.1-17
Álvaro Carvajal Castro
Peasant agency, collective action, and institutions in early medieval societies: an approach from NW Iberiapp.19-40
Ladislav Čapek, Lukáš Holata
Reflecting Peasant Agency in Medieval Rural Milieu Research of East Central Europepp.41-76
Teresa Campos López
Village formation and peasantry agency. The case study of Gorliz (Bizkaia)pp.77-99
Catarina Tente, Sara Prata
Considering peasant agency in the Early Middle Ages. A diachronic analysis of the archaeological record in Central Portugalpp.101-121
Eduardo Cardoso Daflon
Unveiling a hidden subject: peasant agency in the Douro river basin (5th- 7th centuries)pp.123-150
Josu Narbarte, Mattin Aisteran
La práctica del caleado como marcador material de agencia campesina durante la revolución agraria de la Edad Moderna en el Cantábrico orientalpp.151-179
Carlos Tejerizo García
The “arenas of struggle” of peasant agency in early medieval times: a theoretical and archaeological approachpp.181-206
Alberto García Porras
The tower of Agicampe (Loja, Granada). Social change in the rural Nasrid worldpp.207-231
Karen Álvaro Rueda, Esther Travé Allepuz
Peasant agency and peopling processes in Early Medieval Catalonia: Some thoughts and examples of rural landscape (5th – 9th centuries)pp.233-263
Jesús Bermejo Tirado
The reoccupation of the late roman villae of the Iberian Peninsula and the record of the subaltern debris. The case of Fuente Álamo (Puente Genil, Córdoba)pp.265-289
Book Title
Local Societies and Peasantry Agencies in Medieval Iberia
Editors
Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
304
Publication Year
2024
Copyright Information
© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0562-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0561-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0562-7
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0564-1
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079