RECURSOS HÍDRICOS Y POLÍTICA DE AGUAS EN EL SURESTE DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA DURANTE LA BAJA EDAD MEDIA

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  • Jorge Ortuño Molina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/j8161
Keywords: regadío, pozos, trasvases de agua, molinos, repoblación, organización territorial, irrigated lands, wells, transfers of water, hydraulic mills, colonization, territorial organization

Abstract

Traditionally, the existence of irrigated lands in Spain has been linked to Rome and al-Andalus. Likewise, the Christian Conquer kingdoms have been seen as the responsible of a collapse of this system in the Late Middle Ages. Besides, In the concret area of the southeastern Spain, the scholars have paid attention only to the River Segura and Turia, and not to other lands, located norther forgetting the big efforts made in the lands away from the irrigated areas. However, in those lands the settlers had to pump water from wells, maximize the water of small springs, and, even, to modify the way of small rivers. Therefore, this paper concerns with different projetcs undertaken by don Juan Manuel, landlord of Villena, a big lordship in Castile, in the fourteenth century, as well as the different uses of water which show us the big concern of this matter in Christian society, with a different conception from the andalusian world

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Ortuño Molina, J. (2006). RECURSOS HÍDRICOS Y POLÍTICA DE AGUAS EN EL SURESTE DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA DURANTE LA BAJA EDAD MEDIA. Murcian Medieval Miscellany, (29-30), 123–151. https://doi.org/10.6018/j8161
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