The Centres of Public Power Between the Cities and the Countryside, in the Light of the Recent Archaeology (Italian Peninsula, Late 5th-9th Century)

The paper aims to illustrate, especially through the results of recent archaeological studies, articulation and forms centres public power between Gothic Carolingian periods, in dialectic city as a seat institutions their protagonists, countryside, which contains production controls resources. We will consider Italian territory, with focus on Tuscany, propose some comparisons rest Europe. An architectural, artistic topographical resilience emerges. It is probably consequence continuity series elements: ownership particular urban suburban areas palaces, well rural strategic sites; use languages models Late Roman aristocracy, economic impoverishment early medieval rulers.