MEDIEVAL COLONISATION AS AN EXPRESSION OF SUPRALOCAL POWERS
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Reconstruction of medieval colonisation of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands (Czech Rep.) has been analysed based on systematical research of the Rokštejn Castle and its closer hinterland. This highland was not settled until the 12th century, and as such represents a sort of a power vacuum. Landscape is thus anthropologically changed during and after this period, which lasts until the end of the 13th century, when we can presume the political structures stable, as is evident through parcelation of the landscape (mainly field systems). Yet, the fortification systems in and around the Rokštejn lordship do not correspond with the agricultural landscapes, clearly demarcated by antrhopogenic features (e.g., ridge and furrows). Analysis of historical and archaeological data can further be used for recreating the political situation on local and regional scale, however, power is certainly represented by the settlement structure, as it is in itself, a way of controlling the population through taxes, resource allocation, and other revenues the political extent of the lordship’s power allows. |
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