Archaeology of the Medieval Iberian Peninsula: Another Approach to Its History

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Univ. Autónoma de Madrid

Organizer Name

Fernando Valdés Fernández

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. Autónoma de Madrid

Presider Name

Fernando Valdés Fernández

Paper Title 1

Tracing Evidence of the Mozarabs in Toledo

Presenter 1 Name

Yasmine Beale-Rivaya

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Texas State Univ.-San Marcos

Paper Title 2

The Iberian Episcopal Groups in Late Antiquity: Location, Organisation, and Architecture

Presenter 2 Name

Isabel Sánchez Ramos

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. College London

Paper Title 3

Games of Holy Transparency: On the Material History of Chess Pieces Made from Rock Crystal

Presenter 3 Name

Michael A. Conrad

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. Zürich

Paper Title 4

The Unearthed Crypt: the Primitive Cathedral of Palencia

Presenter 4 Name

Rodrigo Cortés Gómez

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. Autónoma de Madrid

Start Date

10-5-2019 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

Description

Over the past thirty years, medieval archaeology in Spain and Portugal has yielded an enormous amount of historically valuable information. Many of the results have not been widely disseminated, especially when the findings originate outside of well-planned scientific projects. Nevertheless, findings which are the result of emergency operations, pre-construction interventions, or urban projects in our cities can still provide a valuable resource of information.Results of this type are rarely published in a scientific context and usually end up in administrative reports of little consequence.

Our, objective is to contribute to knowledge of the Middle Ages in the Iberian peninsula by once again presenting some of these projects and their findings to medieval scholars in the United States because, as the title of the panel indicates, archaeology is another way of making history. Fernando Valdés Fernández