Cerâmica de tradição islâmica em contexto português

Abstract

The excessive tutelage of Political History over the study of medieval materials, frequently results in attempts to link directly the archeological record with an historical conjuncture, generally disruptive. One example is the tendency to assume that some characteristics of Islamic pottery were exclusive to the time frame of the Muslim domain, submitting the material culture to a political and institutional chronology which reveals as totally artificial. In this paper we intend to start systemizing data that allows us to consider that the integration of the southern cities in the Christian territory did not cause a moment of rupture, at least in the material creations. On the contrary, by valuating the inputs of stratigraphic and contextual data, we verify that continuities do not restrain to the maintenance of technical knowledge, formal patterns or ornamental options. In some latitudes, in the century following the Christian conquest, the pottery production continued to incorporate innovations and tendencies from regions where Muslim powers proceed ruling. This observation allows us to conclude that some material expressions of a cultural universe that was structured by centuries of Mediterranean interchange, survived the establishment of new political frontiers and the arrival of new social actors.

Keywords

• Archaeological evidences
• Christian conquest
• pottery
• Islamic traditions