Islandia medieval, ¿sociedad de base campesina?

Published 2019-08-07
Section Papers

Authors

  • Santiago Barreiro Área de Estudios Antiguos y Medievales IMHICIHU-CONICET

Keywords:

Islandia, campesinado, Wickham

Abstract

En este artículo buscamos examinar la aplicabilidad de la categoría de "sociedad de base campesina", propuesta por el historiador británico Chris Wickham, a uno de los ejemplos que el mismo autor considera paradigmático: Islandia durante la Edad Media temprana y central, a la luz de la historiografía especializada.

Author Biography

Santiago Barreiro, Área de Estudios Antiguos y Medievales IMHICIHU-CONICET

Investigador Asistente del Área de Estudios
Medievales del IMHICIHU-CONICET (Buenos
Aires, Argentina). Doctor en Historia
(Universidad de Buenos Aires) y Magister en
Estudios Medievales Islandeses (Universidad de
Islandia). Sus publicaciones recientes incluyen
la coedición del volumen Shapeshifters in
Medieval North Atlantic Literature (Amsterdam
University Press, 2019) y el capítulo “Feud”
en The Routledge Research Companion to
The Medieval Icelandic Sagas (Routledge,
2018) y el artículo The Role of Honour in Egils
saga (Sredniowiecze Polskie i Powszechne
8.12, 2016).

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How to Cite

Barreiro, S. (2019). Islandia medieval, ¿sociedad de base campesina?. Revista Chilena De Estudios Medievales, (15), 42–52. Retrieved from http://revistas.ugm.cl/index.php/rcem/article/view/193