La primera arqueología medieval española. Análisis de un proceso frustrado (1844-1925)

Abstract

This text is part of a historiographic project, aimed at determining and understanding the role played by archaeology in relation to studies of medieval history in Spain. In this text the archaeological interventions performed between the second half of the 19th Century and the first quarter of the 20th are analyzed –from the recovery of the epigraphy and coins until the excavations– in the context of the institutionalization of the archaeology that occurred around this period. We attempt to determine if a medieval archeology investigation that can be considered coherent really existed, and if so, determine its ideological roots, characteristics, periodization, etc., and the reasons for its almost complete disappearance until the 1980’s.