Research Catalog

Title

Agricultural landscapes of al-Andalus, and the aftermath of the feudal conquest / edited by Helena Kirchner and Flocel Sabaté.

Publication

• Turnhout : Brepols, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kirchner, H. (Helena)
• Sabaté, Flocel

Description

277 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

This book is a compilation a series of significant, recent research on agricultural systems in al-Andalus, undertaken from an archaeological perspective, with particular reference to irrigated and drained areas, dry agriculture field systems, and pasturelands. This volume presents recent archaeological research on the agriculture and society of al-Andalus during the Middle Ages, especially from the perspective of 'hydraulic archaeology' -- an avenue of research developed by Spanish researchers which focuses on the analysis of irrigation systems created by Islamic colonists from the eighth century onwards. More recently, this research perspective has incorporated the analysis of other agricultural systems, such as dryland agriculture and pasturelands. All of these agricultural regimes are complementary in peasant-led subsistence agricultural systems. From a methodological perspective, this archaeological approach is highly innovative, and uses a wide range of techniques (aerial photography, cartographical analysis, field survey, archival research, and archaeological excavation) in order to outline the size and boundaries of cultivation and grazing areas, to define specific plots of land and the related road networks, and to identify other associated facilities, such as watermills. In connection with these topics, several issues are discussed: the earmarking of rural or urban farming areas for irrigation, draining, or dryland agriculture; the process of construction and the subsequent evolution of these farming areas; the transformations undergone by these areas after the feudal conquest; and, finally, the identification of pasturelands and the analysis of the evidence concerning their management.

Series Statement

The Medieval Countryside, 1784-8814 ; vol. 22

Uniform Title

Medieval countryside ; v. 22.

Subject

• To 1516
• Agriculture > Spain > History > To 1500
• Landscapes > Spain > History > To 1500
• Land use, Rural > Spain > History > To 1500
• Agriculture
• Land use, Rural
• Landscapes
• Spain > History > 711-1516
• Spain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Research on irrigation, drainage, dry agriculture and pastures in al-Andalus / Helena Kirchner -- Peasant irrigation systems. Agrarian spaces and the network of Andalusi settlements of Manacor (Mallorca) / Eugènia Sitjes -- Watermills on Ibiza (Balearic Islands) : a documentary and archaeological case study in Santa Eulàlia des Riu / Antoni Ferrer and Helena Kirchner -- Morphology of irrigated spaces in late medieval Mudejar settlements : the canal of Lorca (Riba-roja de Turia, Valencia) / Enric Guinot Rodríguez -- Urban irrigated areas. Searching for the origin : a new interpretation for the Horta of Valencia in the time of al-Andalus / Ferran Esquilache -- Drainage and irrigation systems in Madina Ṭurṭũša (Tortosa, Spain) (eighth-twelfth centuries) / Helena Kirchner, Antoni Virgill, and Arnald Puy -- Dry farming and pasturelands. On dry farming in al-Andalus / Félix Retamero -- On the problem of Andalusi dry farming : Aialt (Castell de Castells), a qarya with no irrigation system in the mountains of Valencia / Josep Torró -- Deciphering the Islamic landscape in the eastern Ebro valley : almunias and livestock / Jesús Brufal -- Irrigated pasturelands in the mountain ranges in the south-east of the Iberian peninsula / Antonio Malpica Cuello, Sonia Villar Mañas, and Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz.

Call Number

JFE 22-4234

ISBN

• 9782503593975
• 2503593976

OCLC

1285278031

Title

Agricultural landscapes of al-Andalus, and the aftermath of the feudal conquest / edited by Helena Kirchner and Flocel Sabaté.

Publisher

Turnhout : Brepols, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Medieval Countryside, 1784-8814 ; vol. 22

Medieval countryside ; v. 22.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

To 1516

Added Author

Kirchner, H. (Helena), editor.

Sabaté, Flocel, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4234