International Conference
Rural landscapes in Europe between de Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
15 y 16 de octubre de 2026
Valencia
Dirs.: Antoni Furió, Universitat de Valencia; Paolo Nanni, Universita di Firenze; Gabriella Piccinni, Universita di Siena
Secret.: Xavier Belenguer and José Tebar, Universitat de Valencia
The conference sessions can be followed online via Zoom:
https://uv-es.zoom.us/j/62505500677
Programa
Jueves 15 de octubre
SESSION 1
09:30
Opening remarks
09:45
Mathieu Arnoux
EHESS / Université Paris Cité
Des paysages soutenables ? Questions de ressources et d’énergies dans les systèmes agraires (Xe–XVIe siècles)
10:15
Jordi Bolòs
Universitat de Lleida
The rural landscape in Catalonia in the Middle Ages: Transformation and resilience; peasants and lords
10:45
Coffee Break
11:15
Wim De Clerq
Universiteit Gent
Transforming the Countryside: The ‘Great Clearances’ and Rural Growth in Medieval Flanders Revisited
11:45
Jesús Fernández
Universidad de Oviedo
Archaeology of a Medieval Peasant Settlement in Asturias: Agrarian Landscapes, Habitat and Environment
12:15
Discussion
SESSION 2
15:30
Erik Thoen
Universiteit Gent
The features of rural landscapes in early urbanised Flanders during the Middle Ages: traditional or innovative?
16:00
Davide Cristoferi
Universitat de València
Landscapes and Disruptive Events: Methods, Problems and Case Studies from Late Medieval Tuscany
16:30
Coffee Break
17:00
Antoni Furió — Universitat de València
Antoni Mas Forners — Universitat de les Illes Balears
Pau Viciano — Universitat de València
Land, Water, and Peasant Labour: The Social Construction of a Mediterranean Agrarian Landscape — Valencia and Mallorca in the Middle Ages
17:30
Carlos Tejerizo García
Universidad de Salamanca
Between agency, autonomy and resistance: an archaeology of peasant landscapes in central and northern Iberia in the long duration (5th–16th century)
18:00
Discussion
Viernes 16 de Octubre
SESSION 3
09:30
José María Martín Civantos
Universidad de Granada
Las aljamas nazaríes y moriscas. Lógicas campesinas, espacios agrarios y gestión del territorio
10:00
Giulia Arrighetti — Università di Bergamo
Riccardo Rao — Università di Bergamo
Where Are Animals in the History of Agriculture? Historiographical Perspectives between Italy and Europe
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Alexandra Sapoznik
King’s College London
Landscapes of exploitation: pastoralism and cheese production in the Western Mediterranean
11:30
Paolo Nanni — Università di Firenze
Gabriella Piccinni — Università di Siena
Saper lavorare e saper cambiare: flessibilità e trasmissione di idee, tecniche e competenze nell’Italia rurale medievale
12:00
Discussion
SESSION 4
Chair: Massimo Montanari — Università di Bologna
15:30
Paul Warde
Cambridge University
Agricultural History Review
15:45
Margareth Lanzingen
Universität Wien
Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie
Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes
16:00
Paolo Nanni
Università di Firenze
Rivista di Storia dell’Agricoltura
16:15
Niccolò Mignemi
CNRS, CRH-EHESS
Études Rurales
16:30
Rosa Congost Colomer — Universitat de Girona
Llorenç Ferrer Alòs — Universitat de Barcelona
Estudis d’Història Agrària
16:45
Iñaki Iriarte Goñi
Universidad de Zaragoza
Historia Agraria
17:00
Coffee Break
17:30
Discussion
