This chapter aims to present watermills as a component of local political landscapes and as a proxy to power relations and political interactions within early medieval local communities. Research on various European regions has shown that watermills could be subject to complex property regimes, often characterised by partible ownership and shared use. Through the analysis of the evidence from the north of the Iberian Peninsula, the chapter considers the different resources and infrastructures that mills weaved together, analysing different levels of decision-making on which their management relied, and delving into the local landscapes that they contributed to shape.
Institute of History: IH, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0001-5443-3838
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Chapter Title
Mills and the politics of water management in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1050
Authors
Julio Escalona, Álvaro Carvajal Castro
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0530-6.12
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe
Editors
Iñaki Martín Viso
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
340
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0530-6
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0529-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0530-6
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0532-0
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079