IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 546: Traces of Memory in the Western Mediterranean, I: Landscape and Underground Memory

Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals / Institución Milá y Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) / Grup de Recerca en Estudis Medievals d'Art, Història, Paleografia i Arqueologia (MAHPA), Universitat de Barcelona
Organisers:	Pau Castell-Granados, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona Marta Sancho i Planas, Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals, Universitat de Barcelona
Moderator/Chair:	Pol Junyent Molins, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona
Paper 546-a	The Underground Memory: Archaeological Traces of the Medieval Past in the Catalan Pyrenees (Language: English) Marta Sancho i Planas, Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals, Universitat de Barcelona Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 546-b	Textual, Archaeological, and Territorial Sources for the Study of Spiritual Landscape Memory (Language: English) Maria Soler-Sala, Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona Index terms: Archaeology - General, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 546-c	Landscapes as a Source: Using Territory to Study the Early Medieval Monasteries in the Catalan Counties (Language: English) Xavier Costa-Badia, Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals, Universitat de Barcelona Index terms: Archaeology - General, Monasticism
Abstract	Human activity leaves deep material traces, both in the landscape and in the subsoil. These traces can be analyzed through archaeological methodology. The territory, in surface and underground, is like a palimpsest that saves the historical memory which we can read and understand. In this session we will expose three proposals in this sense: the historical memory of the Pyrenees Valley since 5th Century to 15th Century, the archaeological and textual registers based on the territory to concrete an spiritual landscape memory, and an exploration on landscape memory through some territorial evidences as toponymy, orography, and archaeological registers from the early medieval Catalan counties.