Wednesday, March 2, 2011, at 18:00, at the North Wing of the Palazzo De Mari in Acquaviva delle Fonti present volume Medieval Castle. Puglia and Basilicata: FREDERICK II AND THE NORMANS TO CARLO ID'ANGIO '. (Edizioni Characters Furniture, 2010).
revisit together author Raffaele Licinio, professor of Medieval History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Aldo Moro Bari, the phases of battlements that have affected the South during the late Middle Ages in an international perspective. A phenomenon in progress before its time, which involved a multifaceted dall'interculturalità territory.
A book that offers food for thought in light of the debate on the value of integration, the idea of \u200b\u200bterritory, with its geopolitical issues, economic and bureaucratic, in a 'heavy loss of identity in Italy.
medieval castles. Puglia and Basilicata: from Norman to Frederick II and Charles I of Anjou (movable type editions) is the first in a series entitled Questions of History, directed by Raffaele Licinio and Francesco Violante with an authoritative presentation of Joshua Musca. A volume of historical research on the castle system that affected southern Italy during the Middle Ages to regain the historical dimension of events from the cliché of a false mythology castle.
The history of the fortifications is the witness of the gradual unfolding of historical evolution in which there was a cultural and political change that characterizes the structure of a new company. The fortifications are a symbol of an anthropological value that contains a thought economic, political and religious. A system of power which engages in the development of an identity that is built on a feudal system and the growing power of a church with the Latin clergy. The late medieval fortification in the South plays a strategic and political control of the territory, a real form of government and management of highly centralized feudal society. A place where the multifunctional defensive needs are combined with those of population and agricultural use. The military function of battlements defended the agricultural economy of the territory, "The securitatis quies" factor is strong acceleration of "facere castles.
But when and why and who created the castles were the castle? There was a real castle bureaucracy? The fortification is historically associated with the crisis of Byzantine rule and the subsequent Norman. With Roger II meet in one kingdom all the Norman conquest of southern Italy, the fortification becomes a system of political control and strengthening of the monarchy, by Frederick II, will be the instrument of a highly centralized power. The fortification is a process that comes with military and defensive purposes but represents a phenomenon of regional planning, management of its population and its agricultural colonization of the Byzantine logic of battlements responded to the needs of defense and promotion of productive land and their people. By Norman fortification affirming the idea of \u200b\u200bcentralizing power antiurbano that reprimerà autonomist pressures cities. Along these lines, will continue the Swabian castle building in Castel Del Monte is the symbol of this ideology of power. With the Angevin Charles I and Charles II will maintain the tradition of Norman and Swabian castles and strengthen the structures on the defense plan. The United Angevin is a feudal state that structures with less rigorous relations between central and peripheral governments, including the king and barons Ultramontanes who want to make their own fiefdoms a territory reserved. The central government of Frederick II will become a feudal monarchy and will be broken up between the French barons who built their own fiefdoms in strengthening the system further fortifications defensive castle.
Written by Antonella Colaninno
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