La articulación del poder en la Cuenca del Duero: el ejemplo del espacio zamorano (siglos VI-X)

Abstract

The articulation of political power is a way to understand the Late Antiquity and High Middle Ages in the Duero's basin, whose evolution has been explained through a strong fall of the social structures in the VIIIth and IXth centuries, In this paper has been defining the local power unities (civitates, hill-forts, monasteries and so on) and has been studying their relationships with the central power, which are very different because of their heterogeneity and their transformations during this period. The permanence of these unities represents a dinamic line of continuity between the wisigothic dominion and the leonese "repoblación". The case of the Zamora's region is an example.