Estudio arqueológico del Desfiladero de La Horadadala transición entre la tardorromanidad y la Alta Edad Media (ss.V-X d.n.e.)

Abstract

This research is focused on the process of transition between the social structures imposed by the Roman Empire until reaching a new social formation: the feudal. These are characteristics of the Middle Ages. This process, although it has an earlier dynamic, it actually starts in the 5th century, just when the Roman Empire disappeared as a political reality. Nevertheless, the creation of the new Germanic kingdoms did not end this Roman way of living, which had been imposed for centuries. This paper deals with the issues of when, how and why the final breaking of this social organization arrives, and explains the structural characters of this new social organization, which changed those previous to the 10th century. So, the work is inserted in the discussion of the feudal revolution within the definition of the feudal system in Castille.