IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 837: A 'Dark Matter': Archaeology and History of Fiscal Estates, IV - Influences and Behaviour, 9th-11th Centuries
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
Organisers: | Paolo Tomei, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del sapere, Università di Pisa Giacomo Vignodelli, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Università di Bologna |
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Moderator/Chair: | Charles West, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
Paper 837-a | Conflicts over Woodland Appropriation and Expansion of Fiscal Estates in Francia, 8th and 9th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
Paper 837-b | The King's Lands and His Neighbours in Northern Italy, 8th-10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
Paper 837-c | Lights in the Darkness?: New Data on Carolingian Public Curtes in the Arno Valley (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
Abstract | Fiscal estates represent a sort of 'dark matter': vast and influential, but scarcely documented and still largely unexplored. Through the juxtaposition of written and archaeological sources the session will address the issue of interaction between fiscal estates and the surrounding social and economic environment. Paper -a will explore the problem of conflicts involving fiscal wooded land in Francia. Paper -b will assess the significance of royal estates in Northern Italy by exploring their relationship with the territories in which they were situated. Paper -c will pose the question if central fiscal places in the Arno valley were just efficient tools of exploitation or they could function as engines of growth. |