1st Edition
River and Society in Northern Italy The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD
By Marco Panato
Copyright 2024
382 Pages
by
Routledge
382 Pages
by
Routledge
382 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period. Through the study of the relationship between river and society over time, it shows how the Carolingian conquest and other major political events in northern Italy did not seem to introduce radical changes in the daily life or... Read more
Abbreviations, 1. Introduction: Studying the Po riverscape in the early Middle Ages, 2. The Po River in early medieval mentalities, 3. Climate, environments, and resources of the Po Valley, 4. Rivers and roads: connectivity in the Po Valley, 5. Circuits of goods and people: the socio-economic networks, 6. River and settlements in early medieval northern Italy, 7. River management, agency, and 'other' socio-economic uses, Epilogue, Bibliography, Primary Sources, Secondary Sources.
Biography
Marco Panato completed his PhD in History at the University of Nottingham in 2020. After a first post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Tübingen, he returned to Nottingham, where he is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow working on the historical ecology of the early medieval coastal marshes in Italy.
