Rural habitat forms in the Middle Ages, in Northern Limagne and Sologne bourbonnaise

From the fertile black soils of Limagne to the sandy-clay plateaus of the Sologne bourbonnaise, Middle Age farmers have shaped the landscapes that we know today; however, the history of their instillation on these lands is not linear. Here, for the first time since the 1960s, a team of archaeologists, historians, geologists, carpologists, ceramicists and other specialists propose a synthesis of the Middle Age rural habitat forms in Limagne and Sologne bourbonnaise. Given that a great deal of architectural, technical and environmental information remained unexploited, this diversity of approaches has allowed a renewed look at the establishment conditions of rural populations, notably by studying geological markers of catastrophe, but also by placing all the studies in a more precise historical perspective thanks to new dating. This multi-disciplinary approach has ensured that the full richness of the regional medieval plant economy has been revealed.