Un modelo de análisis del poblamiento rural en el valle del Duero (siglos VIII-X), a partir de un espacio macro-regional: las Tierras Galaico portuguesas

Abstract

This article propose, from a concrete area (Galicia and North Portugal in the North West of the Iberian Peninsula) and exactly between Miño and Douro valleys, the results of our research about Early Medieval rural settlement (700-1000 A.D.)
For the period 700-880 A.D. (after a short historiographical summary) we propose an interpreting model from our area about rural settlement. Between 880-1000 A.D., we notice the “birth” of the rural villae from documentary evidence; the restauration of the ancien rural settlement; and the reorganization of the ancien ecclesiastical organization. That means a great process of territorial reorganization ordered by the asturian dinasty, but not a “Reconquest” process about a no man's land in Douro valley.