The term communalism was developed in the early 1980s as a scholarly term referring to a particular form of political order [2], triggering a critical debate [5] that led to its Europeanization and gave it a secure place in historiography [4]. The term serves to characterize the lifeworld shaped by local communities/communes in Old Europe. It is more precise than German Gemeinde, recalling Latin communitas (“community”) as a subset of universitas (“total…