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- Title
Arqueología de los condados castellanos. Sociedades locales y prácticas políticas en Lantarón (siglos IX-X).
- Authors
Quirós Castillo, Juan Antonio
- Abstract
This paper aims to study sociopolitical practices and the territorial shapes of power in the early medieval Castilian counties. The emergence in recent decades of a robust social history of power in north-western Iberia has allowed to propose new interpretive frameworks stressing the role of aristocracy and county elite. However, the new archaeological records are challenging these assumptions providing some features of local societies and analyzing, from new perspectives, the social and political dynamics of the Castilian area. This work is focused on the case of Lantarón, one of the smaller territories at the head of which an count is attested in the 9th-10th centuries. Using a multi-scale and comparative analysis, it is argued that the strong identity of local societies, the existence of a high degree of political compartmentalization and the dispersion of different centers of authority allowed the construction of forms of a relational territorialization. This new territorialization has opened the horizons of political practices at different scales. Lantarón's case study allows us to propose an ideal type of relational state in which consensus and political networks are more relevant than the patrimonial bases of power.
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; SOCIAL history; POWER (Social sciences); ARISTOCRACY (Social class); SOCIAL dynamics; HUNTER-gatherer societies; COMPARATIVE studies; GREY relational analysis
- Publication
Spal: Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueologia de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2021, Vol 30, Issue 2, p308
- ISSN
1133-4525
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12795/spal.2021.i30.26