La fine delle ville in Sicilia: crisi, metamorfosi e resilienza tra tarda antichità e età islamica

The macroscopic relevance of the golden age of villas in Sicily during the fourth century has often placed the island as an exemplary context for studying residential buildings in the late antique Mediterranean countryside. In recent years, however, research on Sicilian villas has broadened its chro...

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Autores: Castrorao Barba, Angelo, Sfameni, Carla
Formato: otro
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/382946
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/382946
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palavra-chave:Sicilia
Arquitectura residencial
Restos arqueológicos
Antigüedad tardía
Sicily
Residential buildings
Archaeological remains
Late Antiquity
Villas
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Resumo:The macroscopic relevance of the golden age of villas in Sicily during the fourth century has often placed the island as an exemplary context for studying residential buildings in the late antique Mediterranean countryside. In recent years, however, research on Sicilian villas has broadened its chronological horizons, proposing new scenarios on the different phases of deconstruction, reuse and transformation that they underwent in the following centuries. This contribution aims to contextualize the archaeological evidence on the construction and settlement phases that progressively led to the metamorphosis of the villa-system, From the 5th century, the Sicilian villas were affected by various phenomena of abandonment and reuse. Despite this, some villa sites, understood as central places in the geography of rural landscapes, maintained a significant role within the new agrarian system. They coexisted with the progressive growth of secondary settlements (known as agglomérations secondaires or agro-towns according to the definition by R.J.A Wilson), during the Byzantine era, showing even resilience in the continuity of occupation until the Islamic and Norman periods