History of italian agriculture and agricultural landscapes in the late Middle Ages

Abstract

The history of agriculture and agricultural landscapes has always had a long tradition of studies in Italy. The recent bibliographic essay by Alfio Cortonesi and Susanna Passigli1 has offered scholars of rural history an important tool to become acquainted with over fifty years’ worth of studies with the numerous works and research areas including the first authors of rural and of medieval landscape history (such as, for example, Ildebrando Imberciadori, the founder of the “Rivista di storia dell’agricoltura” and Emilio Sereni with his famous Storia del paesaggio agrario), important scholars like Giovanni Cherubini and Vito Fumagalli, and a flourishing new season of research that started in the late 1980s2. Still today, rural history in Italy continues to enjoy great attention3 both in terms of the history of