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1 décembre 2017
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Gabriele Castiglia et al., « Between Change and Resilience: Urban and Rural Settlement Patterns in Late Antique Corsica », HAL-SHS : histoire de l'art, ID : 10670/1.hstzax
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Corsica is one of the core areas for the understanding of Mediterranean history in the longue durée. Literary sources are sporadic (besides nine letters by Gregory the Great) and must be integrated with an indispensable comparison with those relating to the other great islands (especially Sicily and Sardinia). Archaeological research, although very limited, has allowed considerable progress in knowledge of the territory and the dynamics of settlements.As far as urban areas are concerned, there are only two known civitates in the island, Aleria and Mariana, while in the rural world, only the site of Castellu has benefited from long-term excavations. The rest of the data comes from the excavation of rural baptismal churches known since the 1980s, but these (except in the cases of Adiacium and Saona) unfortunately involve non-stratigraphic investigations.Both in the Vandal and Byzantine ages, as well as the initial Lombard period, Corsica seems to maintain a settlement dynamic that is entirely continuous from Roman times, as testified by finds that reveal Mediterranean exchanges ranging from the Iberian peninsula to Africa, Asia Minor, and the Syro-Palestinian area. In this chapter, we see how Corsica has been capable of progressive adaptation and morphogenesis over a long period of time which, however, counteracted the maintenance of typically “insular” peculiarities, rooted in historical memory, perfect exemplification of the concept of “resilience”.