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Sources of geomaterials in the Sicani Mountains during the Early Middle Ages: A case study of Contrada Castro, central western Sicily

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 617-636, July/August 2022., 2022
Abstract From 2017, an unknown rural settlement in Contrada Castro at Corleone (Palermo Province, western Sicily) was investigated as part of the ‘Harvesting Memories Project’. The stratigraphic sequence, supported by radiocarbon dating, has demonstrated a reoccupation of a pre‐Roman site during the transition between the Byzantine and Islamic periods.
Giuseppe Montana   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a trans‐regional approach to early medieval Iberia

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022
Abstract The past few decades have witnessed great change in the study of the early Middle Ages in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish and Portuguese historiographies have moved away from older grand narratives such as ‘Reconquest and Repopulation’, which traced a centuries‐long process encompassing the ultimate victory of Christianity over Islam ...
Álvaro Carvajal Castro   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe: that is
Innes, Matthew
core   +1 more source

Teudefred and the king. On the manuscript Carcassonne G 6 and the intertwining of localities and centre in the Carolingian world

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 209-235, May 2022., 2022
Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
wiley   +1 more source

THE LOCUS IN THE CONTEXT OF LATE ANTIQUE SPAIN

open access: yesJournal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2020
At a conference some years ago, I briefly examined the relationship between local power and wine production in Visigothic Spain. On that occasion, I mentioned the transformed legal nature of the locus, a topic I now wish to explore further, in the same ...
Adriaan De Man
doaj   +1 more source

Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-21, March 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes ...
Robin Whelan
wiley   +1 more source

Slavery and identity in Mozarabic Toledo : 1201-1320 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
L'ocupació musulmana de Toledo va significar la coexistencia, en aquesta ciutat, de col·lectius que professaven religions diferents i entre els quals la tensió era freqüent: mossàrabs, jueus, castellans i colons francesos es convertiren en els grups ...
Ryan, Michael A.
core   +2 more sources

Magnetic prospection at Aistra (Álava) and Peña Amaya (Burgos): Towards a new diagnostic paradigm for early mediaeval Iberia

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 3-14, January/March 2022., 2022
Abstract This article discusses the application and implications of magnetic prospection within two complex early mediaeval sites of the 5th–10th centuries BCE in northern Spain, at Aistra and Peña Amaya in the Upper Ebro Valley. In this period most sites displaying domestic and other forms of occupation present multifaceted and challenging problems ...
Juan Antonio Quirós   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La guerra e i suoi strumenti nelle “Etimologie” di Isidoro di Siviglia

open access: yesNuova Antologia Militare, 2022
Isidore of Seville (559-636) is particularly known for his “Etymologiae”, considered the first encyclopedia of Western culture, which intends to expose the totality of human knowledge. Isidore, from an ancient Roman-Iberian family, archbishop of Seville,
Sergio Masini
doaj   +1 more source

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