Beyond the Castella Tutiora: Fortified Settlements in Northwestern Iberia (4th-6th Centuries)

Keywords: Hillforts, End of the Roman Empire, Early Middle Ages, Settlement Pattern, Critical Review

Abstract

The Late Roman occupation of northwestern Iberian hill-forts is a phenomenon which, even if recognised at length, has rarely been tackled in detail. This is due to a historiography that traditionally prioritised those interpretations from the perspective of the long duration or those regarding the paradigm of the castella tutiora from Hydatius’ writings. In this paper we propose an exhaustive revision of these contexts to pinpoint the setbacks and possibilities of those traditional interpretations. Thus, we will suggest acontextual and stratigraphical approach in order to define the complexity of the phenomenon, suggesting as a hypothesis a social interpretation which focus on the diversity of historical processes that occurred by the end of the Western Roman Empire.

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Published
2021-09-28
How to Cite
Tejerizo García C. y Rodríguez González C. (2021). Beyond the Castella Tutiora: Fortified Settlements in Northwestern Iberia (4th-6th Centuries). Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 39(2), 717-745. https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.78125