Incastellamento
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Incastellamento was the process by which settlements grew around towers and castles located on top of hills between the 9th and 11th centuries. Pierre Toubert, who first observed this process, suggested in the 1970s that the proliferation of castles and associated settlements was testament to lordly authority.[1][2] The origins of the castle as a distinct building type is hotly debated, and in such discussions it is often explained as a reaction to an external threat. However, incastellamento occurred after the Saracen threat to Italy and southern France had abated.[3]
References
- ↑ Creighton, Oliver H. Early European castles : aristocracy and authority, AD 800-1200. London: Bristol Classical Press. p. 140. ISBN 9781780930312.
- ↑ Glick, Thomas F. (1995). From Muslim fortress to Christian castle : social and cultural change in medieval Spain. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719033490.
- ↑ Creighton, Early European castles, pp.42–45.