IMC 2017: Sessions

For the Iberian Peninsula we have important written evidence of the existence of monks and forms of monasticism in Late Antiquity. These texts indicate the presence of hermits and also monastic communities living under monastic rules, such as Fructuoso de Braga and Isidore of Seville. Although we have some rare and problematic material evidence about the hermit phenomenon, with respect to monastic communities our knowledge is almost non-existent. We ignore, largely, how it would be in a late antique Iberian monastery. We know, obviously, religious buildings that are interpreted hypothetically as monasteries; we have, also, material evidence of buildings or structures that might have been part of these monastic complexes… However, we cannot present a coherent picture of the organisation and structure of the late-antique Iberian monastic space. In this 1st session, and through regional analysis, we will try to address these indefiniteness problems and how we can appropriately interrelate textual information with archaeological research.