Villa, villula, castellum
Problems of rural terminology in Visigodos times
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17561/aytm.v8i0.1671Keywords:
Rural settlements, Transformations of the villa, Visigothic kingdomAbstract
The word villa starts to disappear in texts coming from the Visigothic kingdom in the fifth century being substituted by villula, possibly revealing not only a reduction in size and importance of these rural centres, but showing the decline of this social and eco- nomic enterprise. Meanwhile after some evolution the different meaning of castellum and castrum coincide indicating a fortified habitat. Villa is finally used, above all in texts not very influenced by tradition,with the meaning of small rural centre.
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