Le dimore medievali dell’emilia occidentale
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Housing is one of the best material indicators to investigate the economic, social and political context of the medieval landscape. The objective of this contribution is to propose a reading of the relationship between the city and the countryside throughout the Late Medieval centuries precisely from this type of material indicator. It is possible to recognise the more or less specialised master’s work by looking at the architectural models, the types of construction, and the materials used. Also, by analysing the distribution of artefacts attributable to the same architectural models between the urban and rural landscapes, it is possible to understand how the centrality of urban centres changed between the High and Late Middle Ages. In particular, a predominant role of the city seems to emerge as a producer and exporter of new models to the territory since the municipal era, in line with many other aspects of material culture, that is, at the time when cities began to politically and militarily define their territorial reference districts