scholarly journals O Caminho Português Interior de Santiago como eixo viário na Idade Média

2020 ◽  
pp. 1659-1663
Author(s):  
Pedro Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Major Road ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
The Middle Ages

Pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela have secular origins. In Portugal, one of the oldest pilgrimage paths is the Portuguese Inner Way to Santiago de Compostela (PIWSC), whose itinerary is based on ancient Roman and medieval routes. The objective of this work is to identify pre-existing structures such as sidewalks and bridges, based on the realization of field work in situ. These structures are important in archaeological terms and because they played a fundamental role in the passage of pilgrims and local communities, even reaching the present day. Historical and archaeological evidence shows PIWSC (Viseu – Vila Real – Chaves – Verín – Ourense – Santiago de Compostela) has played a major road since the Middle Ages.

Looking South

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gerrard ◽  
José Avelino Gutiérrez-González
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
North West ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
Scallop Shells ◽  
Wool Cloth ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter explores medieval contact and trade between Britain and the Iberian Peninsula. For the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, archaeological evidence includes coins, burials, badges, scallop shells, and souvenirs of bone, ivory, and jet as well as artistic influences on heraldry and artistic representation. The important heavy goods being transported were wool, cloth, metals, and bulk foodstuffs for which there is an emerging archaeology of production in Spain and Portugal. There was also minor trade in leather and salt as well as in foodstuffs like honey and wine, figs, and candied fruit. Pottery and tile exports from Spain are today the most telling indication of commercial contact and personal exchange but English embroideries and alabaster devotional panels are among the items of exchange which travelled south and have survived. Overall, Anglo-Iberian contact in the Middle Ages has left an oddly skewed signature in the archaeological record.

scholarly journals The zooarchaeological identification of a ‘Morisco’ community after the Christian conquest of Granada (Spain, early 16th century): sociocultural continuities and economic innovations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos García-García ◽  
Guillermo García-Contreras ◽  
Michelle M. Alexander ◽  
Rowena Y. Banerjea ◽  
Aleks Pluskowski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Surrounding Landscape ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractThis article presents the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of an assemblage dating to the second quarter of the 16th century that was discovered on the current university campus of Cartuja, on the outskirts of Granada (Andalusia, Spain). During the Middle Ages, this area was largely used for agricultural purposes, including as estates owned by high officials of the Nasrid dynasty, the last Islamicate polity in the Iberian Peninsula. The Castilian conquest of Granada in 1492 brought significant changes to the area, with the construction of a Carthusian monastery and the transformation of the surrounding landscape, including changes in property structures, different agrarian regimes and the demolition of pre-existing structures. Among these transformations was the filling up of a well with construction materials, and its further use as a rubbish dump. This fill yielded an interesting and unique zooarchaeological assemblage, the study of which is presented here. The results advance our understanding of changing patterns in animal consumption during the formative transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period at the heart of the former Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, and indicate the continuity of some Andalusi consumption patterns along with specialised production and distribution systems of meat products that have no archaeological precedent in the region, suggesting that the bones were dumped by a possible ‘Morisco’ community (autochthonous Muslims forced to convert to Christianity in 1502).

scholarly journals The Water-Supply of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 165-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Coats-Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Ground Water ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Scaling Down ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article collates the textual and archaeological evidence for Rome’s water-supply in the period c.300-1000. Whilst there is now sufficient archaeological evidence for the rebuilding of the city’s aqueducts after the Gothic Wars, it is clear that the uses to which the water was put in the middle ages were very different from those of Late Antiquity. There was a massive scaling-down of the overall system, with the thermae falling immediately out of use, to be replaced to a certain extent by church baths for the clergy and poor. The Janiculum mills were maintained, and smaller watermills continued to function off the aqueducts, as well as from the Tiber. Baptisteries used both aqueduct and non-aqueduct-supplied water. There was an extensive network of wells and subterranean conduits utilizing ground-water. The system as a whole was organized centrally, by the Church – although the extent of private patronage (wells, smallscale mills and domestic baths) should not be overlooked.

Encounters within Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter examines the accounts of several Central European travelers who visited the Iberian Peninsula in the second half of the fifteenth century and pays particular attention to their comments on slaves and slavery. First was the Swabian Georg von Ehingen who sought adventure in latter-day crusades and fought with the Portuguese in Morocco. The Bohemian Leon von Rozmital visited Iberia in 1465–1467. Two of his companions left accounts, his secretary Shashek and the patrician Tetzel wrote accounts of the tour. Nicholas von Popplau made a short visit to Santiago de Compostela in 1484. The German Hieronymus Münzer (or Monetarius) made an extensive tour of Portugal and Spain in 1494–1495. The German knight Arnold Von Harff visited Iberia at the very end of the fifteenth century. Each account provides significant observations and detailed descriptions of the traffic and sale of slaves. Taken as a whole, they provide a window on the relations between Central Europe and the western Mediterranean at the end of the Middle Ages.

Royal and Aristocratic Landscapes of Pleasure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mileson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter summarizes the current state of research on royal and aristocratic landscapes of pleasure, including forests, parks, warrens, gardens, and tournament grounds. It is shown that archaeological evidence has made a strong contribution to knowledge about the function, extent, and significance of these landscapes across Britain. Nevertheless, much fieldwork remains to be done, especially in Wales and Scotland. The most fruitful approach to individual case studies and regional analysis is to combine documents, maps, and place-names with material remains. Future advances in understanding will require close engagement with wider debates about changes in the distribution of power during the Middle Ages.

Julian of Toledo and Don Yllán de Toledo:

2021 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-382
Author(s):  
E. Michael Gerli
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Conde Lucanor ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract Exemplum XI of Don Juan Manuel’s Libro del Conde Lucanor (“De lo que contesçió a un deán de Sanctiago con don Yllán, el grand maestro de Toledo”, ca. 1331‒1335) relates the encounter of Don Yllán de Toledo, a learnèd necromancer, and the ambitious Dean of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Exemplum XI is one of the best known and most celebrated stories in the book for its seemingly preternatural turn in the plot’s action and the characters’ visit to the Other World. The article seeks to identify Don Yllán with Archbishop Julian of Toledo (642‒690), author of the Prognosticon futuri saeculi (687), an important theological tract that circulated widely during the Middle Ages and that served as the basis for the doctrine of Purgatory. The Prognosticon contains illustrative anecdotes of dialogs with the dead and journeys to and from the Other World. As such, it endowed Julian with the legendary reputation of necromancer and probably served as inspiration for Don Juan Manuel’s Exemplum XI of El Conde Lucanor.

The “Botafumeiro” VR: Virtual Reality in the Liturgy of the Middle Ages

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián Flores ◽  
Jose M. Ferro ◽  
José A. Taboada ◽  
Juan E. Arias
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Virtual Simulation ◽  
Pendulum Motion ◽  
Visualization System ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
System A ◽  
The Middle Ages

Santiago de Compostela, a city in Galicia, in the northwest of Spain, has been a famous Christian pilgrimage site since the Middle Ages. One distinctive element of the liturgy of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is the use of a giant censer “O Botafumeiro.” It is tied to a rope that hangs from the center of the transept of the arms of the cathedral, and it is pulled through the transept of the cathedral, basically describing a pendulum movement. A team of men called “Os Tiraboleiros” pulls the supporting rope in a pumping cycle to increase the energy of the system, and therefore the angle of oscillation. This pumping process transforms the pendulum motion into a variable-length pendulum motion. We present the specific case of the virtual simulation of the liturgy of the Botafumeiro by VR techniques. The simulation allows users to play the role of the Tiraboleiros as a part of this old tradition. We present the system architecture, the design of the visualization system, a special user interface that simulates the pull of the Botafumeiro, and the experiences of its use with different users of the system.

scholarly journals Saga der portugiesischen Feigen D

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 77-97
Author(s):  
Flávio Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
Dried Fruits ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
The Middle Ages

The saga of the Portuguese figsWhen Bob Cratchit in Charles Dickens’ ,Christmas CaroL made his wishes for Christmas, he hoped for a new job. love and some figgy pudding. From the 16th Century (at the latest) figgy pudding was one of the traditional dishes in English Lenten cuisine. The figs used were certainly South-European, and in the Middle Ages most of them came from Portugal. This article deals with five aspects of the production and trade of figs in the Portuguese realm. In the first two parts the article describes the production of these dried fruits and how local communities acted as protectors of the regional harvest. Then the units of measure of fig production in Portugal and their Arabic and Christian origin will be outlined, while the last two parts deal with the export of the dried fruits, chiefly to England and Flanders, and the direct connection between Portuguese and Hanseatic merchants. The article will show how important this trade was, given that the king of Portugal alone exported 400 tons of figs to Bruges at the end of the 15th Century.

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