Chapter The “arenas of struggle” of peasant agency in early medieval times: a theoretical and archaeological approach
The main aim of this paper is to explore the possibilities and limits of the application of the concept of agency to tackle early medieval peasant-based societies. While this concept has achieved great success in archaeology since the 1980s onwards, it has rarely been applied for medieval contexts....
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| description | The main aim of this paper is to explore the possibilities and limits of the application of the concept of agency to tackle early medieval peasant-based societies. While this concept has achieved great success in archaeology since the 1980s onwards, it has rarely been applied for medieval contexts. However, recent historiographical developments and approaches within medieval archaeology invite to consider its applicability to expand our understanding of this social group. Through two case studies located in central Iberia considering the emergence and development of post-Roman peasant-based societies, I will argue that an archaeology of peasant agency during early medieval times is not only possible, but also necessary in order to overcome overoptimistic and biased approaches to these societies. Furthermore, it will be argued that this archaeology depends on the complex analysis of the relationship between agency and structure and the detection of those “arenas of struggle” through which the agency of different social groups are displayed. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1633622025-08-02T05:04:26Z Chapter The “arenas of struggle” of peasant agency in early medieval times: a theoretical and archaeological approach Tejerizo García, Carlos Peasant-based societies structure settlement pattern Iberian Peninsula materiality The main aim of this paper is to explore the possibilities and limits of the application of the concept of agency to tackle early medieval peasant-based societies. While this concept has achieved great success in archaeology since the 1980s onwards, it has rarely been applied for medieval contexts. However, recent historiographical developments and approaches within medieval archaeology invite to consider its applicability to expand our understanding of this social group. Through two case studies located in central Iberia considering the emergence and development of post-Roman peasant-based societies, I will argue that an archaeology of peasant agency during early medieval times is not only possible, but also necessary in order to overcome overoptimistic and biased approaches to these societies. Furthermore, it will be argued that this archaeology depends on the complex analysis of the relationship between agency and structure and the detection of those “arenas of struggle” through which the agency of different social groups are displayed. 2025-08-02T05:04:25Z 2025-08-02T05:04:25Z 2025-08-01T15:49:35Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20250801T173835_9791221505627_149 2704-6079 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104699 9791221505627 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163362 eng Reti Medievali E-Book open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104699/1/43434.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0562-7.08 10.36253/979-12-215-0562-7.08 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221505627 26 Florence open access |
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