The morphological study of medieval urban fabric experiments new methods to process all available information. Within the debate between continuity and discontinuity of classical rural settlements and the medieval castles, some small towns in different regions of Europe show analogies and close continuity between the roman villae rusticae system and the fortified hill-top towns through a hill-edge phase prior to the fortification. The knowledge of the diachronic series of documents on the ownership of single lots is a prerequisite for further testing an established method of analysis, proposed here to reconstruct the growth phases of a small town. Overlapping data from the morphological analysis, the distribution of praedial toponyms, the series of imperial diplomas, the quantitative analysis of notarial medieval sources, the series of maps, views, and cadastres, and the mosaic of current cadastral ground plans, it is possible to outline the history of a settlement, in cases where the
Urban Morphology and architectural design in medieval small towns: San Vito Romano
CAMIZ, Alessandro
2014-01-01
Abstract
The morphological study of medieval urban fabric experiments new methods to process all available information. Within the debate between continuity and discontinuity of classical rural settlements and the medieval castles, some small towns in different regions of Europe show analogies and close continuity between the roman villae rusticae system and the fortified hill-top towns through a hill-edge phase prior to the fortification. The knowledge of the diachronic series of documents on the ownership of single lots is a prerequisite for further testing an established method of analysis, proposed here to reconstruct the growth phases of a small town. Overlapping data from the morphological analysis, the distribution of praedial toponyms, the series of imperial diplomas, the quantitative analysis of notarial medieval sources, the series of maps, views, and cadastres, and the mosaic of current cadastral ground plans, it is possible to outline the history of a settlement, in cases where theI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
