Evolution of the Roman villa in the late Roman period in Catalonia Authors Marta Prevosti i Monclús Institut d’Estudis Catalans – Institut Català d’Arqueologia DOI: https://doi.org/10.2436/20.1001.01.230 Keywords: Roman villa, late Empire, rural settlement, coloni, iugatio-capitatio Abstract The article is about the evolution of the Roman villa in the late Roman period in Catalonia, based on archaeology, the study of the rural population and ancient sources. From the 4th century onwards, the number of villas decreased considerably, although the existing ones became important centres of power, which assumed fiscal, legal and religious functions, and developed luxurious residences. However, the economic system became very different from that of the High Empire. In the 5th century, many of these wealthy villas were ruralized and few survived in the 6th century, when large landowners ceased to live in the countryside. The dichotomy between urban centre and territory puts an end to the concept of the city of antiquity. However, the structures that the cities had imprinted on the landscape remained throughout the Visigothic period.. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2024-02-02 How to Cite Prevosti i Monclús, M. (2024). Evolution of the Roman villa in the late Roman period in Catalonia. Butlletí De La Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics, (33), 73–95. https://doi.org/10.2436/20.1001.01.230 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 33 (2022) Section Congrés-Homenatge a Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals (1888-1970) License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
