La gestión de las tierras en la antigüedad tardía: Entre la autonomía y la dependencia de las poblaciones rurales

Résumé

The new paradigm established in the Iberian Peninsula after the dissolution of the Roman system meant a change in power relations and in their way of manifesting in the landscape. Phenomena such as the change of functionality of the residential area of the villas or the creation of new forms of organization such as villages, farms and hill tops, have been interpreted as a symptom of the generation of a free peasantry as a consequence of the loss of elite power. In this paper, a process of review and contrast of the sources and archaeological records will be carried out, which will show how the aristocracies, in the 5- 7 TH centuries, far from losing power, continued to be framed as command references, and the peasants as dependents, for sure with a regime of property that alters the basic nucleus of its relations, and that could qualify like a system of dependent property with peasant selfmanagement of the production.