Rural communities, land clearance and water management in the Po Valley in the central and late Middle Ages
Michèle Campopiano
AbstractThis article shows how groups that acquired the highest concentration of social and political power in Po Valley High late Middle Ages, firstly rural seigniorial lords latterly urban governments, tried to subordinate communities their policies land clearance water management. The development forms collective organisation among population implied ready availability local structures could mobilise manpower provide knowledge environmental conditions locality. Rural developed these functions through negotiation between socio-political forces framed government countryside, first then governments.Keywords: clearancewater managementrural communitiesItalyPo Notes1 C. Cattaneo, Notizie naturali e civili su la Lombardia (Milan: Coi tipi di G. Bernardoni Giovanni, 1844), ci–ciii.2 V. 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