Essai sur la planification agraire au Moyen Age

Building on theoretical and methodological advances in research on rural cadastres of the Roman period, this work offers, by focusing on the new landscapes of Gascony, a study of mediaeval rural planning. While urban bastides have been the subject of much study, we know nothing about the parcels put in place around them in order to organize the distribution of the land among the people who inhabited it. 

This study demonstrates that this process of colonisation gave rise to the development of new forms of planning by surveyors. This phenomenon takes us beyond the context of the bastides themselves and represents a highly original contribution to our knowledge of the organisation of rural space in the middle Ages. As a result, the ground is prepared for a study of the actors involved in and the theory and practice of mediaeval surveying.