Chapter Peasant agency, collective action, and institutions in early medieval societies: an approach from NW Iberia

This paper engages critically with the idea that the individual household is the basic unit of social production and reproduction in peasant societies. Building upon a relational approach to agency and a critical approach to institutions, it argues that in order to develop a comprehensive theoretica...

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description This paper engages critically with the idea that the individual household is the basic unit of social production and reproduction in peasant societies. Building upon a relational approach to agency and a critical approach to institutions, it argues that in order to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework on peasant agency in early medieval societies, we must account for the attested forms of collective action and consider the institutions that may have served as an interface between individual and collective agency. To demonstrate the potential of such approach, the paper addresses the role of property and commons as institutions mediating access to natural resources and conditioning individual agency. For this, the paper focuses on the extant written sources from NW Iberia. Ultimately, the aim is to explore avenues for dialogue between different disciplinary and methodological approaches to peasant agency in early medieval societies.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1635172025-08-02T05:13:23Z Chapter Peasant agency, collective action, and institutions in early medieval societies: an approach from NW Iberia Carvajal Castro, Álvaro Early Middle Ages Iberian Peninsula Critical Institutionalism Agency Peasants This paper engages critically with the idea that the individual household is the basic unit of social production and reproduction in peasant societies. Building upon a relational approach to agency and a critical approach to institutions, it argues that in order to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework on peasant agency in early medieval societies, we must account for the attested forms of collective action and consider the institutions that may have served as an interface between individual and collective agency. To demonstrate the potential of such approach, the paper addresses the role of property and commons as institutions mediating access to natural resources and conditioning individual agency. For this, the paper focuses on the extant written sources from NW Iberia. Ultimately, the aim is to explore avenues for dialogue between different disciplinary and methodological approaches to peasant agency in early medieval societies. 2025-08-02T05:13:22Z 2025-08-02T05:13:22Z 2025-08-01T15:49:29Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20250801T173835_9791221505627_147 2704-6079 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104697 9791221505627 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163517 eng Reti Medievali E-Book open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104697/1/43428.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0562-7.02 10.36253/979-12-215-0562-7.02 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221505627 22 Florence open access
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Iberian Peninsula
Critical Institutionalism
Agency
Peasants
Carvajal Castro, Álvaro
Chapter Peasant agency, collective action, and institutions in early medieval societies: an approach from NW Iberia
title Chapter Peasant agency, collective action, and institutions in early medieval societies: an approach from NW Iberia
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title_short Chapter Peasant agency, collective action, and institutions in early medieval societies: an approach from NW Iberia
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topic Early Middle Ages
Iberian Peninsula
Critical Institutionalism
Agency
Peasants
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Iberian Peninsula
Critical Institutionalism
Agency
Peasants
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