Rural Landscapes and Agro-revolutions

In the well-known and brilliant illustrations that illuminate the Livre des Heures du Duc de Berry (Herman, Paul and Johan Limbourg, 1410), one can appreciate—always placed in the background—the walled city (a solid and compact object from which emerge its “symbolic” constructions, temples, palaces, towers, etc.) and, in the foreground, the “countryside”: the cultivated territory outside the walls, the agrarian space destined to feed not only the farmers who work it but the entire urban and rural population.