Isidoro y el paisaje rural contemporáneo (s. VII)

In Isidore’s Etymologies there are very few references to the rural contemporary habitat. However, there are some worthy to be commented on and to be considered in the light of the archaeological work carried out in recent years. So, the present article is a study of the buildings mentioned by Isidore as part of the countryside and, eventually, their archaeological identification. The article deals also with problems of the different meanings of the vocabulary used to designate such buildings, as, for example, villa/castellum, villulae, castra, diversorium and so on, and the evolution of their meaning from the 5th to the 7th centuries in the Iberian Peninsula.