Late Roman and Suevo-Visigothic Archaeology
Code
711051083
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To recognize late Roman, Suevic and Visigothic archaeology as an essential scientific domain
b) To understand and interpret material evidence from late antique archaeological contexts in the Iberian Peninsula, and in particular in the current Portuguese territory, in its varied forms of cultural expression
c) To identify and list elements for critical archaeological reasoning
d) To acknowledge current dynamics and trends
e) Being able to discuss problems, by using specific vocabulary and by integrating issues into the conceptual universe of the discipline;
f) To acquire knowledge and skills enabling a more thourough study of late Roman, Suevic and Visigothic archaeology
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Introduction to late Roman, Suevic and Visigothic archaeology
2. From Roman Spain to al-Andalus
3. Hispania in late Antiquity: archaeology and material culture;
3.1. Landscape, territory and natural resources, administrative organization, provinces, dioceses, parishes, roads, urban and rural modeling, the capitals
3.2. Urbanism, implementation of urban planning and revitalization of civic structures: public and private spaces, from pagan to Christian, the transformation and revitalization of urban topography of rural settlement
3.3. Architecture: organization and dynamics
3.3.1. Architectural materials and works, the treatises
3.3.2. The notion of limes and the development of military architecture;
3.3.3. Civil architecture
3.3.4. Religious architecture and new needs of Christian worship, the ritualized liturgy; funerary cerimonies
3.3.5. The architecture of spectacles
3.3.6. The architecture of industries and trade, harbours and shipbuilding
3.3.7. From pagan to Christian aesthetics: an \"art of the sublime\", painting, sculpture, mosaic;
3.4. Material culture, centers of production and commerce
Bibliography
LÓPEZ QUIROGA, Jorge, El final de la Antigüedad en la Gallaecia. La transformación de las estructuras de poblamiento entre Miño y Duero (siglos V al X), s.l., Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento, 2004; Anejos de «Archivo Español de Arqueología», XXVIII: Cerámicas tardorromanas y altomedievales en la Península Ibérica (L. CABALLERO, P. MATEOS y M. RETUERCE [editores]) e XXIX: Repertorio de arquitectura cristiana en Extremadura. Época tardoantigua y altomedieval (P. MATEOS CRUZ y L. CABALLERO ZOREDA [editores]), Mérida, Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida (Junta de Extremadura Consorcio de Mérida CSIC), 2003; Sedes regiae (ann. 400-800) (Gisela RIPOLL y Josep M. GURT, eds.; con la colaboración de Alexandra CHAVARRÍA), Barcelona, Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres, 2000; RIPOLL LÓPEZ, Gisela, Toréutica de la Bética (siglos VI y VII d.C.), Barcelona, Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres, 1998; MACIEL, M. Justino, Antiguidade tardia e paleocristianismo em Portugal, Lisboa, Edição do Autor, 1996
Teaching method
Thematic sessions with multimedia projections.
Evaluation method
Research project (50%) and test (50%).