Il tempo dei cambiamenti. Assetti di potere nelle campagne dell’Italia centro-settentrionale intorno al 1100

Autore: Alessio Fiore
In: Storica. 61-62 • anno XXI, 2015
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Abstract

Times of change. Structures of power in the countryside of northern and central Italy around 1100.
Studies about seigneurial power in Italian countryside have traditionally focused on long-term developments.This article draws attention to the years around 1100 in the countryside of northern and central Italy as a phase of strong acceleration in the process of intensi cation and crystallization of local power structures which had been inchoate before. This acceleration is connected with the crisis of traditional public forms of power, in the context of the civil wars – linked with the «Investiture Crisis» – which outbroke in 1080s. With the civil wars that the traditional framework of public power collapsed quite suddenly; lordly power in the countryside extended over more people, became harder and more formalized; the countryside divided itself in different blocs of territorial lordships in a quite homogeneous way. Special consideration is given to the structural analysis of the legitimating languages used by local actors, such as custom, pacts and violence, and their complex interactions, exploring the connection between practices and discourses, actions and documents.

Parole chiave: Signoria; Medioevo; Campagne; Mutazione feudale

Keywords: Lordship; High middle ages; Countryside; Feudal mutation