Mottes castrales en Provence Les origines de la fortification privée au Moyen Âge

• Main Author: Mouton, Daniel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Paris Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme 2008
• Series: Documents d'archéologie française
• Subjects: Archaeology; habitat; Moyen Âge; château; fortification; église; militarisation; motte castrale; occupation du territoire; voie; kernmotte; sala
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Two decades of research on Motte-and-Bailey castles in Provence have contributed new elements to our knowledge of the castle phenomenon that developed at the end of the 10th century. More than sixty sites have been recorded and our prospection continues to reveal new ones. The excavation of several...