Pergola Philippe, Castiglia Gabriele, Hanna Elie Essa Kas, Martinetto Ilaria, Segura Jean-Antoine (Eds.). Perchement et Réalités Fortifiées en Méditerranée et en Europe, Vème-Xème Siècles / Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Mediterranean and in Europe (5th-10th Centuries)

Archaeopress, 2023. — 474 p. — (Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean 11).Perchement et Réalités Fortifiées en Mediterranee et en Europe, Vème-Xème Siècles / Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Mediterranean and in Europe (5th-10th centuries) is the result of the International Congress held in October 2019 in Roquebrune-sur-Argens about the fortified hilltop settlements of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The congress brought together many of the most prominent scholars in the field (principally archaeologists) to present both brand new data and syntheses on wide contexts throughout the European continent, the Mediterranean basin and beyond. The book stands as the most recent and comprehensive update on the ‘perchement’ (i.e. the fortified hilltop settlement) and it will represent a benchmark for scholars working on this topic for decades to come.