Castral Villages and Commercial Network in Southern Aragon in the High Middle Ages

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K03176
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: Adachi Takashi 広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(文), 准教授 (90377763)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 中世ヨーロッパ / スペイン / アラゴン / 征服＝入植運動 / 封建的空間編成 / 城塞集落 / 商業

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The conquest-colonization in southern Aragon created a broad territorial dominion that was bisected into the territory of royal villa, headed by Teruel, and the commandries of military order such as the Templars and the Hospitallers, which embodied a typical feudal spatial configuration based on countless autonomous fortified villages as basic units. However, it never endorses the traditional theory of southern Aragon as a region without commerce. These fortified villages not only organized the intra-territorial circuit of goods exchange, but also served as nodes of a wider network of commerce that stretched from southern Aragon to northern Valencia.

Free Research Field

西欧中世史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、封建制の発達をよぎなくする封建的空間編成そのものが商業の発達を促すことを立証することによって、封建制か商業かという従来の二項対立を全面的に覆すと同時に、商業不在のアラゴン南部と非封建的かつ都市的なバレンシア北部という、地域研究の伝統にねざした理解の懸隔を乗り越え、王国間商業や地域間商業という既存の解釈格子に与することなく、むしろ両地域をもとより経済的に一体化した空間として検討する新たな道を切り開くものである。