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Were worth - the Middle Ages
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The Town hall of Junkerhof
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The period which extends from the O C to the XII E centuries is considered according to three main axes: the study of the population, of its modes of regroupings and the means which it implements to obtain the essential resources with its survival. The second topic relates to the Church, as well in theology as she seeks to communicate than insofar as she influences the lifestyle of the laic ones. The exercise of the temporal authority, finally, shows how the holders of the power contribute to group the men and, too often also, to draw up them the ones against the others. These three topics imbricate and present three facets of only one and even history. Their analysis makes it possible to foresee some harbingers of Were worth today.

During the XIV E and the XV E century, important components of regional civilization change and set up the current structures. First of all, the demographic trends redistribute the occupation of the territory and push the Valaisans to adapt their agro-pastoral system and to give more place to the breeding. The political events, then, are summarized mainly with confrontation between the bishop of Sion and the nobility. The communes benefit from it to become a true political interlocutor. Lastly, to act on his natural environment, the man develops and applies a certain number of knowledge which touches so much with the husbandry than worthy of time and of space.

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