Contents

• Preface: Three key transitions
• 1. The late Roman landscape
• 2. The countryside of Al-Andalus: a new model of settlement. Castles and villages in Al-Andalus. The castle/village complex. Berbers in Al-Andalus
• 3. The Paleoandalusi Period: a new culture emerges. Historical inferences from the ceramic record. Paleoandalusi settlements: the marshes of the eastern coast. Paleoandalusi high culture: science. Conversion to Islam. Religious and ’social’ conversion
• 4. Irrigation in Al- Andalus: a reassessment. Irrigation in the Mediterranean world. A local control model of irrigation in Al-Andalus. Meso-scale irrigation systems. Norias. The association of irrigation and Hisn/Qarya complexes. Macrosystems. Irrigation and peasant production
• 5. The transition to feudalism. Models of change. The transformation of the villa. Incastellamento. The transformation of the frontier. Hydraulic development in the feudal transition. Irrigation and feudalism
• 6. Reading the Repartimientos: modeling settlement in the wake of conquest. The Libros de Repartimiento and Domesday Book. The Repartiment before the Libros. The Repartiment of Mallorca. The Repartiment of Valencia. Orihuela and Murcia. Andalucia. The resettlement of Granada after the expulsion of the Moriscos. Cortijos. A tree-growing society. Houses too small: casas moriscas. Remodelling the Husun. Irrigation: learning the Muslim system. Were Andalusi irrigation systems feudalised? Feudalisation of Andalusi mills. Continuity and change in post-Repartimiento settlement
• 7. Completing the transition. Pottery: enriching the register. Science: expanding the Quadrivium. Urban institutions: adopting an Islamic model. Archaeology and cultural change in medieval Spain. Theorising cultural change