Bastos, Rosário

Dias, João Alveirinho

Pereira, Olegário Nelson Azevedo

English

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III International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: More than just Biodiversity Abstract Book ! HNE 2022 ! Peniche, Portugal Was littoral a void territory in medieval times? Dealing with Portuguese coastal counties during the first dynasty Maria Rosário Bastos1, Olegário Nelson Azevedo Pereira2, João Alveirinho Dias3 1. Aberta University, Department of Social Sciences and Management, Porto, Portugal & CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Porto University, Porto, Portugal; 2. MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Campus da Caparica, Caparica, Portugal; 3. CIMA  Marine and Environmental Research Center, Algarve University, Faro, Portugal  The theory of the French historian Alain Corbin which considers that until modern times, due to natural and anthropic dangers, the coastal areas were the so-as irrefutable. However, the coasts are not all the same, once there are exposed coasts and sheltered coasts (estuarine and lagoons). Coastal zones should not be assumed as a global and univocal set. Moreover, even il the 19th century? In the Portuguese case, there is not any detailed study that allows us to confirm it. Therefore, this subject must be studied. This communication presents the preliminary results of the ongoing Project funded by Citcem, namely regarding a medieval chronology.  Oliveira Marques argues that Portuguese medieval - But what was the distance from the ocean? Was it similar in all the coastline? The impossibility of a global survey concerning Portuguese territory occupation in remote granted by the Portuguese medieval authorities as a kind of a birding certificate of a county). This source allows us to perceive urban settlement rhythm and measure their distance from the coast, but not the occupation density. To infer the demographic contingent of the first dynasty in Portugal, we resorted to medieval sources allows statistical analysis and the graphical and cartographic representation of data. It's just that it's not enough to perpetuate existing and generally accepted ideas. Is the coast territory of emptiness? Science must be proven if only to create a paradigm that can be discussed, improved, or even refuted by future generations.     

Was littoral a void territory in medieval times?: dealing with Portuguese coastal counties during the first dinasty?

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Was littoral a void territory in medieval times?: dealing with Portuguese coastal counties during the first dinasty?

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