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Rural Communes and the Culture of Practices

The projection of city-state political culture on to the surrounding countryside did not only generate forms of resistance from and misunderstanding with local society. This chapter shows how certain social and political actors active in rural areas managed to exploit urban political and legal culture, bending it to their own interests. In other words, the advent of city domination created new possibilities, especially those linked to the activity of the communal courts, which could transform the claims of certain countryside figures into concrete rights. The chapter offers an analysis of several of these situations, in order to provide a clearer understanding of the relationship between city and countryside.