EICAM – Interdisciplinary study on high medieval communities – 5th to 11th centuries
Host institution: IEM-FCSH/NOVA
Lead Researcher: Catarina Tente
Researcher Team: Adriaan de Man, Iñaki Martín Viso, Manuel Real, Anísio Saraiva, António Lima, Pedro Pina Nóbrega, Carlos Alves, João Inês Vaz, Nádia Figueira, Carla Santos, Sónia Cravo, Óscar Jimenéz, Francisca Alves Cardoso, Marina Lourenço, Sílvia Gonçalves, Patrícia Rodrigues, Igor Santos Salazar, Juan A. Quirós Castillo, M. Ángeles Utrero Agudo, Jose Ignácio Murillo, Rafael Martín Talavero, Pilar T. Martin de Vidales, Julio Escalona Monge, António F. Carvalho, Carlos Simões Duarte, Idoia Grau Sologestoa, Omayra Herrero, Stuart Brookes, Marina Vieira, Sara Prata, Tiago Pereira
Duration: 2012-2015
IEM is hosting the project EICAM – Interdisciplinary Study on High Medieval Communities – 5th to 11th centuries, which has received funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The project’s fundamental aim is to study High Medieval urban and rural communities, in order to learn about power relations, territorial organization and daily life throughout the period under study. The novelty of this project lies in the fact that it aims to develop a critical study of various markers of human activity (biochemical, botanical, faunal, archaeological, documentary and anthropological), with the dual aim of building a multidisciplinary approach and a comparative perspective on the scale of western Europe. It is also intended that the study can be integrated into the process of concept renewal that has been taking place at international level, particularly with regard to the archaeological markers of power involving local and central powers. In order to carry out this approach to the past, the city of Viseu and the peripheral areas of this urban center were selected, in a clear perspective of a center/periphery approach.