2023
Medieval Archaeology
Name: Medieval Archaeology
Code: HIS12037L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Archeology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, Spanish
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
This course aims to familiarize students with the main characterizing aspects of medieval archeology, from Late Antiquity to the Low Middle Ages, introduce the main historiographical debates and use the vocabulary and concepts and categories of the Middle Ages
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Knowledges:
• Recognize the archaeological components that may be found in any work research and that are characterizing the Middle Ages.
• Critically analyze the main trends of research in order to properly fit the data materials and historical and its actual importance and significance;
Skills:
• Provide appropriate methodologies for the identification and pursuit of material realities of the Medieval period in the Iberian Peninsula;
• Characterize the balance traces of existing Islamic period in Portugal - in urban and rural areas - and other Iberian areas, as well as the material culture associated with them;
• To acquire work skills to participate and come to direct archaeological excavations in this area, as well as to study unpublished collections.
Knowledges:
• Recognize the archaeological components that may be found in any work research and that are characterizing the Middle Ages.
• Critically analyze the main trends of research in order to properly fit the data materials and
• Recognize the archaeological components that may be found in any work research and that are characterizing the Middle Ages.
• Critically analyze the main trends of research in order to properly fit the data materials and historical and its actual importance and significance;
Skills:
• Provide appropriate methodologies for the identification and pursuit of material realities of the Medieval period in the Iberian Peninsula;
• Characterize the balance traces of existing Islamic period in Portugal - in urban and rural areas - and other Iberian areas, as well as the material culture associated with them;
• To acquire work skills to participate and come to direct archaeological excavations in this area, as well as to study unpublished collections.
Knowledges:
• Recognize the archaeological components that may be found in any work research and that are characterizing the Middle Ages.
• Critically analyze the main trends of research in order to properly fit the data materials and
Contents
1. Introduction The concept and limits of Medieval Archeology
2. The material culture of the Iberian Peninsula in Late Antiquity
3. Settlement structures and their evolution
4. The medieval city
5. Fortifications
6. Religious spaces
7. Archeology of Death
8. Economic activities: agriculture and industries
9. The home and its utensils
10. Medieval pottery
2. The material culture of the Iberian Peninsula in Late Antiquity
3. Settlement structures and their evolution
4. The medieval city
5. Fortifications
6. Religious spaces
7. Archeology of Death
8. Economic activities: agriculture and industries
9. The home and its utensils
10. Medieval pottery
Teaching Methods
In class, applying to powerpoint presentation. Visiting archaeological sites is fixed, also the manipulation of archaeological
materials.
Avaliation:
A final written frequency (50%) and a written work with presentation in (40% ),
as well as attendance and participation (10%)
materials.
Avaliation:
A final written frequency (50%) and a written work with presentation in (40% ),
as well as attendance and participation (10%)
Teaching Staff
- Susana Gómez Martínez [responsible]
