The creation of a territory: the comitatus of Modena and its “borders”
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/160Keywords:
Middle Ages, 9th-10th Century, Modena, Rural Communities, BordersAbstract
The main source of this essay is the placitum of the village of Cinquanta, dating at the end of the ninth century. The text of the placitum has been read not as an ‘attestation’ but as a ‘modification’ of the territorial situation described in it (the Modena comitatus), thus recepting a clear theorical suggestion of Angelo Torre. The problem of the so called minor districts in the organization of the Po territory in the Carolingian age has thus been approached from a different point of view: the fines and castra existing in the ninth and tenth centuries, when considered according to this view, look like having no bearing on a territorial idea of jurisdiction; they seem to have had boundaries established by the communities and by the geographic location of their possessions rather than neat boundaries.
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