L'apport de l'archéologie de l'habitat rural dans le nord de la France à la connaissance de la première moitié du X^e siècle (888-962)

Distance to innovations, kinship intensity, and psychological traits

“…A rich historiography generally supports that the Roman family was nuclear [ 8 – 10 ] based on various sources, especially funeral epigraphy [ 11 – 13 ] and the analysis of Roman law [ 14 ], which inheritance rules were inconsistent with a high kinship intensity system. After the fall of the Roman Empire—though before the advent of the MFP—population censuses [ 15 – 18 ], analyses of house sizes [ 19 ], as well as family organizations depicted in Saints vitae [ 20 ] all suggest that the nuclear family was also dominant then, while Saint Augustine [The City of God, XV, 16 ] testifies that cousin marriage was already socially rejected in the fifth century (we provide further discussion of this historical evidence in the Supporting Information). In this perspective, the Church’s MFP cannot have been at the root of weak kinship in Western Europe.…”

Archaeology of Architecture and Archaeology of houses in Early Medieval Europe

“…It is beyond doubt that we still lack systematic collections of data and that the majority of archaeological interventions carried out in recent years remain unpublished. For this reason the writing of studies aiming at more global syntheses is so very relevant and necessary, a good example of which is that of E. Peytremann on northern France (Peytremann 2003) or recent Ireland studies (O'Sullivan et alii 2010). But we also need to remain cautious.…”

Nomads or mobile sedentaries? Archaeological and historical anchoring of the temporary settlement

“…Ces propositions ont été depuis combattues ou nuancées par de nouvelles interprétations émanant d'archéologues médiévistes (Lorren & Périn 1995 ;Périn 1992 ;Peytremann 2003 ;Raynaud 2003 ;Zadora-Rio 1995 car les sources écrites et archéologiques tendent à montrer des réalités différentes. Le modèle de « l'encellulement », véritable modélisation théorique à partir des textes qui institue une représentation politique du village se révèle en fait un obstacle épistémologique pour rendre compte de la réalité archéologique.…”