This paper focuses on the villas of Northern Tuscany, aiming to analyse their transformations between the 4th and the 14th century. The overall emerging picture shows large rural residences substantially surviving up to the 5th-early 6th century, when many are abandoned and despoiled. During the Greek-Gothic war some villas, because of their strategic position for the control of both territory and roads, are partially reoccu- pied, perhaps by military garrisons. Probably between the end of the 5th and 7th century the properties where the last villas were located pass to the kings and the Church, that can use the Roman ruins to build the parish churches with their cemeteries. Only from the 14th century — a phase of intense reoccupation of agri- cultural spaces — some of these churches attract a new settlement on the sites of the ancient villas.
Le ville dopo la fine dell’Impero d’Occidente nella Toscana settentrionale. Casi e quadri d’insieme
Cantini Federico
2022-01-01
Abstract
This paper focuses on the villas of Northern Tuscany, aiming to analyse their transformations between the 4th and the 14th century. The overall emerging picture shows large rural residences substantially surviving up to the 5th-early 6th century, when many are abandoned and despoiled. During the Greek-Gothic war some villas, because of their strategic position for the control of both territory and roads, are partially reoccu- pied, perhaps by military garrisons. Probably between the end of the 5th and 7th century the properties where the last villas were located pass to the kings and the Church, that can use the Roman ruins to build the parish churches with their cemeteries. Only from the 14th century — a phase of intense reoccupation of agri- cultural spaces — some of these churches attract a new settlement on the sites of the ancient villas.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
