Living at the margins : African peasants in an age of extremes 300-900 CE / Paolo Tedesco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tedesco, Paolo, author.

Series:

Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters ; 0026-9832 Band 73.

Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, 0026-9832 ; Band 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Africa--History.

Agriculture.

Peasants--Africa--History.

Peasants.

Physical Description:

361 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Hiersemann, 2025

Summary:

"Living at the margins looks at the history of African peasants from the fourth to the ninth century: their economic and social history and - as far as possible - the shaping of their economic mentality. The book offers a concrete view of how peasant households organized their labor and secured their reproduction from one generation to the next. Starting from key extant sources - the most important being the Tablets Albertini - this book explores the microhistory of a marginal, and, as such, exemplary rural community: the people from the fundus Tuletianos in southern Numidia. The result is a deep dive into the internal dynamics of the Tuletianos's community, its households, and its members. The Tuletiani were exemplary, not exceptional. The life there reflects the organization of the standard rural community of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-331) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783777225135

3777225134

OCLC:

1541818699

Publisher Number:

9783777225135