The linked loci were often separated by areas of lower-density population, yet they appear to have functioned as one political and economic unit.
But it does seem that as long as violence did not come into play, late imperial land markets functioned reasonably well.
During the early seventeenth century the term functioned essentially as an adjective - as in recitativo arioso - rather than a noun.
These probably functioned to regulate the rate and timing of seasonal inundation and subsequent drainage of the lagoon and adjoining fields.
Raw materials and (semi-)elaborated goods functioned as exchange goods not only among elites, but also among lower strata of the populations.
Neither functioned for their original purposes, but both are expressions of the identity and values of their builders.
That is to say, local practices always existed and functioned outside the authority of officials.
The nation's tourist structures, they wrote, had functioned better in the past than in more recent times.
