Autogoverno dei territori montani
The fragility of mountain territories has always demanded adaptive solutions to assure their liveability. When the demographic pressure following the year 1000 dictated the need to use new land, until then covered by forests, the policy makers of that time started a colonisation process on a large s...
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Firenze University Press
2021-02-01
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| description | The fragility of mountain territories has always demanded adaptive solutions to assure their liveability. When the demographic pressure following the year 1000 dictated the need to use new land, until then covered by forests, the policy makers of that time started a colonisation process on a large scale. The purpose was to turn forests into fields, meadows, and pastures. This phenomenon, which had extensive economic and social implications, mainly involved the Alpine arc and especially its central and eastern sectors. Thanks to such initiatives, many seasonal settlements destined for aestivation (alpine pastures) by the pre-existing populations became permanent settlements inhabited all year round. The great rural revolution in the highlands of the late Middle Ages was made possible through the granting of legal incentives to colonists called upon to clear uncultivated land by territorial lordships, both ecclesiastical (princely abbeys, bishoprics) and secular. Such long-sighted political and administrative choices led to the ‘freedom of land clearing’ that constitutes the foundation of many forms of self-government and autonomy. Colonists who agreed to clear the land received, in return, those mountain freedoms which have contributed to strengthening the idea that ‘the mountains make you free’. The end of old regime societies and the advent of modernity with the rise of nation-states has challenged the alpine models of self-government. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e23d2b93bd77413b9bb24fd107feaa1a2022-12-21T21:04:40ZengFirenze University PressScienze del Territorio2384-87742284-242X2021-02-01910.13128/sdt-12583Autogoverno dei territori montaniAnnibale Salsa0TSM/SteP, TrentoThe fragility of mountain territories has always demanded adaptive solutions to assure their liveability. When the demographic pressure following the year 1000 dictated the need to use new land, until then covered by forests, the policy makers of that time started a colonisation process on a large scale. The purpose was to turn forests into fields, meadows, and pastures. This phenomenon, which had extensive economic and social implications, mainly involved the Alpine arc and especially its central and eastern sectors. Thanks to such initiatives, many seasonal settlements destined for aestivation (alpine pastures) by the pre-existing populations became permanent settlements inhabited all year round. The great rural revolution in the highlands of the late Middle Ages was made possible through the granting of legal incentives to colonists called upon to clear uncultivated land by territorial lordships, both ecclesiastical (princely abbeys, bishoprics) and secular. Such long-sighted political and administrative choices led to the ‘freedom of land clearing’ that constitutes the foundation of many forms of self-government and autonomy. Colonists who agreed to clear the land received, in return, those mountain freedoms which have contributed to strengthening the idea that ‘the mountains make you free’. The end of old regime societies and the advent of modernity with the rise of nation-states has challenged the alpine models of self-government.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/sdt/article/view/12583self-governmentAlpine autonomiesfreedom of land clearingcolonists' rightsCharters of Freedom |
| spellingShingle | Annibale Salsa Autogoverno dei territori montani Scienze del Territorio self-government Alpine autonomies freedom of land clearing colonists' rights Charters of Freedom |
| title | Autogoverno dei territori montani |
| title_full | Autogoverno dei territori montani |
| title_fullStr | Autogoverno dei territori montani |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autogoverno dei territori montani |
| title_short | Autogoverno dei territori montani |
| title_sort | autogoverno dei territori montani |
| topic | self-government Alpine autonomies freedom of land clearing colonists' rights Charters of Freedom |
| url | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/sdt/article/view/12583 |
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