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- Title
Territorios resilientes: mancomunales y concejos en el sur del Duero durante la Edad Media.
- Authors
MARTÍN VISO, Iñaki
- Abstract
Studies of the southern Duero Valley have highlighted the importance of the common spaces controlled by urban councils (concejos). According to those studies, their origin lay in the abundance of wastelands in a scarcely populated region and in the town elites' interest in livestock. However a review of written and palynological data reveals that these landscapes were in use before the 12th century, when the region was integrated into the Christian kingdoms. The shaping of council power was achieved via affirmation of their function as guarantor of these areas. As a consequence, a pattern of uses was maintained that combined council ownership and the exploitation by the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages within the framework of particularly resilient supralocal territories. The relevance of the common spaces resulted not from the presence of wastelands, but from adaptation to a pre-existing reality, although from the 12th century onwards some changes occurred in relation to to the redefinition and "politicization" of these areas of common use.
- Subjects
PUBLIC spaces; CITIES &; towns; WASTE lands; LIVESTOCK
- Publication
Vínculos de Historia, 2020, Issue 9, p226
- ISSN
2254-6901
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18239/vdh_2020.09.11