First INPACT’s seminar: Álvaro Carvajal Castro (Wednesday, February 16)

Next Wednesday (February 16) at 16:00 PM (GMT+1) we will start with the INPACT’s seminars. They will consist in a series of talks by worldwide scholars about the issues and topics conderning INPACT’s aims.

This first seminar will be in charge of Álvaro Carvajal Castro (University of Salamanca), who will give a talk on medieval common lands through peasant agency and claim capacity.

The seminar will take place in TEAMS INPACT platform. The access code to the channel is cvbnz3c, only valid for UniGe users. External users who want to participate, please contact with theinpactproject@gmail.com to receive the link.

Here you have the abstract of the seminar and Álvaro’s profile:

In early medieval records, the land appears not only as an object of conflict: it is also the very stage in which some disputes unfold. But why is this relevant for our understanding of the settlement of land disputes in early medieval societies? As it has been noted for later periods, the landscape should not merely be regarded as the backdrop of contention. Rights over land were understood as experienced practices and were etched in the landscape through topographical markers and place-names: social and economic relationships were mapped out on the ground. Thus, we should expect that the manipulation of space was itself one of the strategies to which the contending parties could resort not only to modulate the course of a dispute, but also to realise their claims on the ground. The aim of this presentation is to explore the different spatial practices to which peasant groups resorted in disputes over land, based on the analysis of a number of case studies from early medieval NW Iberia.

Álvaro Carvajal Castro is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Salamanca. In recent years, he has specialized in the study of land claims in early medieval societies, leading the project CLAIMS: Claiming land in early medieval localities (https://claimsmscaproject.wordpress.com/). This is one of the research lines he pursues as a means to delve into peasant agency in the processes of state formation in the early medieval European west, which is part of his broader interest in states and state formation in the early Middle Ages.

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