Places and Spaces of Communities (6th-11th Centuries)
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The dossier looks at the importance of places and spaces for the functioning and the very existence of communities in the early Middle Ages. After a historiographical overview (M. Lauwers), we look at the relationship between the urban fabric and the development of monastic (I. Wood) and canonical (E. Kurdziel) communities, before returning to the question of the organisation of groups of inhabitants and their place in a rural space marked by polarisation (M. Lauwers). The final section examines several cases of community mobilisation in specific locations, which can be used to deal with local affairs (W. Davies) or to stage the community around the bishop (C. de Cazanove-Hannecart). Finally, we return to the "Tuscan model " proposed by R. Francovitch in the light of new excavations carried out at the royal curtis of Valli, using the concepts of polarisation and nucleation (G. Bianchi).
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