Book Series The Medieval Countryside, vol. PW3

Building and Conflict in Southern Europe (1000–1300)

Sandro Carocci, Federico Del Tredici (eds)

  • Pages: approx. 475 p.
  • Size:156 x 234 mm
  • Illustrations:55 b/w, 2 col., 2 maps color
  • Language(s):English, Italian, French
  • Publication Year:2026


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  • ISBN: 978-2-503-60544-9
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This volume explores the material and symbolic importance that buildings played in the context of conflicts that emerged as social and political affiliations and identities, especially local, were defined with new force.

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BIO

Sandro Carocci is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Roma - Tor Vergata (Italy) and is one of the Principal Investigators of the ERC-Advanced Grant Project Petrifying Wealth. He has written and edited numerous books on medieval Italy, including Lordships of Southern Italy (2018) and Social Mobility in Medieval Italy (2018).

Federico Del Tredici is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Roma - Tor Vergata (Italy). He is the author of two books: Comunità, nobili e gentiluomini (2013), devoted to community identities in the late Middle Ages, and Un'altra nobiltà (2017), which explores the changing identity of the nobility in late medieval Italy from a comparative perspective.

Summary

The four-volume sub-series ‘Petrifying Wealth’ explores the sudden ubiquity of masonry construction between 1050 and 1300 in Southern Europe and its profound effect on the European landscape. New questions about wealth, society, and medieval building are explored, which highlight the link between construction in durable materials and the shaping of individual, collective, and territorial identities: the birth of a new, long-lasting panorama, epitomising the way we see the space and territory of Europe today.

In the central Middle Ages, when the roots of power and social identities were defined with new force and, first and foremost, at the local level, conflict became one of the most important factors that drove the building of durable constructions. Buildings and conflicts were linked more closely than before. This third volume in the ‘Petrifying Wealth’ series explores the material and symbolic importance that buildings played in the context of clashes of various kinds: between bishops and city communities; between people marked by different religious affiliations; between lords; between lords and subjects; between different visions of the ecclesiastical hierarchy; between sovereigns, city communities, and the nobility; and between families and members of the same kinship.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
SANDRO CAROCCI and FEDERICO DEL TREDICI

Part I. Churches and Conflicts

Rhetoric of Destruction and Landscapes of Conflict: Reflections on Building in León-Castile (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries)
ANA RODRIGUEZ

Fortifications et conflits ‘grégoriens’ en France méridionale (XIe–XIIIe siècles): Enjeux monumentaux ou territoriaux ?
FLORIAN MAZEL

Il conflitto fra vescovo e comune a Genova: Costruzioni, demolizioni, spostamenti dei palazzi del potere
AURORA CAGNANA

Walled Choir Screens as a Side Effect of Church Reform (Eleventh–Thirteenth Centuries)
FABIO SCIREA

Patterns of Conquest: The Fate of the Friday Mosque in Medieval Narratives on the Conquest of al-Andalus (Eleventh–Thirteenth Centuries)
MARISA BUENO SÁNCHEZ

Part II. Authorities against Buildings

Building and Destroying Castles: Imperial Action in Italy in the Twelfth Century
LUIGI PROVERO

The Practice of Deliberate Destruction in Medieval Italy: Materiality, Skills, and Participation in the Archaeological and Textual Sources
GIULIA BELLATO

‘Cum prius de lignamine castrum fecissent, modo fecerunt de muro’: The Destruction of Rural Fortresses and its Political Significance in Northern Italy During the Age of Communes (Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries)
MADDALENA MOGLIA

Part III. The Rural World

Conflictos rurales y edificios: la Meseta del Duero (siglos XI-XIII)
IÑAKI MARTÍN VISO

La coseigneurie pétrifiée dans le sud du royaume de France (XIIe–XIIIe siècle)
HELENE DEBAX

Qui levat castellum levat rovellum: Castles as Foci of Local Conflict in Central-Northern Italy (c. 1050–c. 1200)
ALESSIO FIORE

La destrucción de edificios en torno a conflictos en el territorio leonés durante la primera mitad del siglo XII
GEMA MANCEBO GONZÁLEZ

Nobles y espacios del condado de Barcelona en el siglo XI: Revisitando a Mir Geribert
ROSA LLUCH BRAMON

Castles and the Affirmation of Aristocratic Power in Twelfth Century Catalonia: The Case of the Cabrera Lineage
ALEJANDRO MARTÍNEZ GIRALT

The Houses of Knights: Milites, Buildings and Conflicts in Rural Areas (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries)
FEDERICO DEL TREDICI

Part IV. The Cities

Nobility, Conflicts, and Buildings in Italian Cities (c. 1050–1300)
SANDRO CAROCCI

La regolamentazione del conflitto attraverso la normativa statutaria sugli edifici
FEDERICO LATTANZIO

Comunità, edifici e conflitti nelle città tra Provenza e Linguadoca
SIMONE BALOSSINO

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Conclusions
SANDRO CAROCCI and FEDERICO DEL TREDICI

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