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10.3406/amime.2010.1927

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10.3406/amime.2010.1927

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Church and cemetery of the deserted village of Vilarnau in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales)

Abstract

The deserted medieval village of Vilarnau (Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales) consists in three poles which are only a few hundred metres apart. This twofold village (upstream and downstream village), with its two castles, its church and its cemetery, was the object of several excavation campaigns that allowed to reconstruct its history, from its birth in the vicinity of the church in the IXth century to its desertion in the middle of the XIVth century. The excavation of the ecclesial pole revealed the early creation of the cemetery, its partial occupation by profane installations (houses and storage pits), its demarcation by a powerful defensive wall, the houses that surround it at the end of the Middle Ages. Field data are completed by written documents evoking the first lords, feudal and later ecclesiatical, from the XIth to the XIVth centuries, then, at the end of the Middle Ages, the village people, the cultures and the destruction of the village by the soldiers of Pierre IV d’Aragon.

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