Cipières

Landscape and Community in Alpes-Maritimes, France

David Austin author Andrew Fleming author Rosamond Faith author David Siddle author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Windgather Press

Published:17th Dec '13

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Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology and distinctive in its topography. Cipières: Community and Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is a unique exploration which brings together a wealth of documentary sources retained in the village with material evidence in the landscape to produce an interdisciplinary and holistic account of the development of one community and its lands. Beginning with a history of the Project, the volume examines the village’s morphology and archaeology, including a landscape survey and investigation of the agrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, before moving on to examine settlement patterns, population, politics, social structure and the local economy from the fifth century through to 1900. After a period of decline, the area is now undergoing regeneration, and history is bought up-to-date and placed in its modern context through reflections of the modern day region.

This is likely to become a classic, of interest not only to those interested in Provence, but to medievalists and early-modernists concerned with how the study of a rural village and its landscape can contribute, in the best Annales tradition, to understanding long-term historical trends. * H-France *

ISBN: 9781905119998

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432 pages