Paolo Tedesco im Interview mit Dimitri Gondicas, Direktor des Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies der Princeton University:

https://hellenic.princeton.edu/directors-bookshelf-paolo-tedesco

„Considerando l’importanza e la non facile ricostruzione dell’economia e della società mediterranea tra tardo antico e alto Medioevo, la ricerca di Paolo Tedesco rappresenta un contributo di notevole importanza, anche per una comparazione tra le aree periferiche della romanità, tra Europa e Mediterraneo.“

Quelle: Professor Paolo Nanni, Università degli Studi di Firenze in Rivista di Storia dell'Agricoltura - a. LXVI, n. 1, giugno 2026

„Overall, Living at the Margins is a rich and carefully argued contribution to the history of Late Antique and Early Medieval North Africa. It will be of great interest not only to specialists of North Africa, but also to scholars concerned with agrarian societies, labor relations, and economic change in the premodern Mediterranean“

Quelle: Kostis Smyrlis, Institute of Historical Research/NHRF, Athen in: Byzantine Symmeikta 26 (2026)

„Paolo Tedesco’s new book on the peasantry of late antique North Africa is an important contribution to debate on an essential (but often overlooked or underestimated) facet of ancient society.“

Quelle: Prof. David J. Mattingly, University of Leicester in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) , 07.07.2026

„This is a tremendously useful book which will create much food for scholarly thought. It is very clearly written and helpfully illustrated.„

Quelle: Prof. Andy Merrils, University of Leicester in „Early Medieval Europe (EME)“, 2026

„Paolo Tedescos „Living at the Margins” ist ein Referenzwerk für die Geschichte der afrikanischen Bauern und die Agrarwirtschaft des Hochmittelalters, das einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Erforschung der Veränderungsprozesse der poströmischen Gesellschaften im Mittelmeerraum leistet.“ 

Quelle: Dr.Marco Cristini, Università degli Studi di Firenze in Plekos 28 ,2026

Living at the margins looks at the history of African peasants from the fourth to the ninth century: their economic and social history and – as far as possible – the shaping of their economic mentality. The book offers a concrete view of how peasant households organized their labor and secured their reproduction from one generation to the next. Starting from key extant sources – the most important being the Tablets Albertini – this book explores the microhistory of a marginal, and, as such, exemplary rural community: the people from the fundus Tuletianos in southern Numidia. The result is a deep dive into the internal dynamics of the Tuletianos’s community, its households, and its members. The Tuletiani were exemplary, not exceptional. The life there reflects the organization of the standard rural community of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

Paolo Tedesco teaches Medieval History at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on the social and economic history of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the fates of the peasantry across different types of society, and the long history of capitalism. His recent publications include Writings on the Tributary State and Commercial Capitalism (2024).

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