PTDC/HAR-HIS/3024/2020

Research Unit: IEM-NOVA FCSH 
Associated Research Units: CHAM-NOVA FCSH; IHC-NOVA FCSH 
Participant Institutions: Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (FL/ULisboa); INESC TEC – Institute of Systems Engineering and Computers, Technology and Science: Universidad de Extremadura (UEX); École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques / Casa de Velázquez (EHEHI/ CVZ)
Associated Institutions:  Castelo de Vide Municipal Council, Ayuntamiento de Cáceres

Lead Researcher: Adelaide Millán da Costa 
Assistant Lead Researcher: Gonçalo Melo da Silva 
Research Team:  Adelaide Millán da Costa (LR); Gonçalo Melo da Silva (Co-LR); Ana Santos Leitão; Ana Filipa Roldão; António Castro Coelho; Daniel Alves; Elena de Ortueta Hilberath; Florencio-Javier García Mogollón; Inês Lourenço Olaia; Joana Vieira Paulino; João Nisa; José Fabián Cuesta Gómez; Julian Clemente Ramos; Leonel Caseiro Morgado; Luis Clemente-Quijada; Luísa Trindade; Pau Soto; Pedro Pinto; Sara Prata
Consultant:  Jean-Luc Fray 
Duration: 2021-2024 

This project develops through two overlapping approaches. The first seeks to identify the role played by small towns in articulating the borderlands between Portugal and Castile, and in relation to more distant areas, exploring all the bonds and flows that these peoples established, enabled or prevented whether due to the geographic, material, political or mental conditions prevailing. In order to visualise and leverage the results, we make recourse to an already existing geo-referencing database (Mercator-e), incorporating new layers in accordance with the variables of connectivity studied. 

The second analytical perspective focuses on studying and reconstructing the urban environments of these two towns, Castelo de Vide and Cáceres. This facet deploys usage of modelling and 3D animation with the objective of observing how the flows and bonds reflect in the urban contexts of these two towns: reconstituting the markets, exchanges, socialisation, decision-making, representation, as well as the routes and paths and their relationships with residential areas.  

The bonds of society establish the essence of this project given the broad trajectory of joint work between the participant universities and regional towns.