MARCHING ARMIES, MOVING CITIES:
MILITARY ITINERARIES AND ENCAMPMENTS, FROM THE CLASSICAL TRADITION TO EARLY MODERN AGE
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR April 29th, 2019 Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar (Braga), Auditório de Engenharia
Organizing Committee
Helena Paula Carvalho (Lab2PT, UMinho) Luís Costa e Sousa (CHAM NOVA FCHS) Francisco Azevedo Mendes (Lab2PT, UMinho)
Scientific Committee
Helena Paula Carvalho (Lab2PT, UMinho) Luís Costa e Sousa (CHAM NOVA FCHS) Francisco Azevedo Mendes (Lab2PT, UMinho)
This event had the support of Lab2PT (UMinho), through the strategic project sponsored by FCT (AUR/04509), CHAM (NOVA FCSH / UAc), through the strategic project sponsored by FCT (UID/HIS/04666/2019), Fundo de Apoio à Comunidade Científica (FACC), and was organized under the project “Re Militari : from military writing to the image of the battlefield in Portuguese space (15211621)” ( PTDC/ ART-HIS/32459/2017), sponsored by FCT .
"Mujeres, niños y lacayos … artesanos como carpinteros, ruederos, prestamistas, curanderos, veteranos, y toda a suerte de parásitos" (Lauro Martines, Un tiempo de guerra. Una historia alternativa de Europa 1450-1700, Barcelona, Crítica, 2013, p. 170)
Explorando o conceito de “cidades em movimento” de Lauro Martinez Torres, o Seminário visa cruzar as perspetivas arqueológica, arquitetónica e histórica na análise dos avanços dos exércitos, dos acampamentos, das fortificações e dos campos de batalha, desde a época romana ao início da época moderna, envolvendo casos de estudo na Europa e no Norte de África. Através do binómio “cidade-exército”, desdobrando os meios militares pelo território, articulam-seduas escalas: a escala das vias de circulação, mobilizando os itinerários e a logística, dividida entre a castrametação e a fortificação permanente; a escala do campo de batalha, com a sua miríade de pequenos detalhes. As sessões estão estruturadas em três temas: 1) o movimento incessante para a Guerra - colunas de marcha e campos fortificados; 2) a arqueologia da batalha - projetos em desenvolvimento; 3) a batalha, no fim da estrada - procurando e selecionando casos de estudo. Orientado por uma visão interdisciplinar do fenómeno militar na longa duração, o Seminário tem uma componente metodológica transversal a todas as comunicações, permitindo discutir num plano internacional e atualizado o potencial dos vários ângulos de abordagem, o desenho das práticas de investigação e os seus enquadramentos em programas coletivos de pesquisa.
Exploring the "cities in Motion" concept as developed by Lauro Martinez Torres, this Conference aims to cross the archaeological, architectural and historical perspectives as to provide an analysis of the army’s march: the camps, the fortifications and the battlefields, from the Roman era at the beginning of the Modern age, involving specific case studies in Europe and North Africa. Through the dual perspective of "city-Army", we will focus on the deployment of the military assets through the territory, as they articulate within two scales: the grand scale of the itineraries through the wideness of territory, the armies on the move and its logistics, divided between castrametation and permanent fortification; and the scale of the battlefield, with its myriad of small details.
The Conference sessions are structured in three themes: 1) The endless movement of military marching columns that multiplied fortified camps across its march; 2) The archeology of the battle, presenting some potential projects under development; 3) The battle - at the end of the (army’s) road, focusing on selected case studies of particular relevant nature. Led by an interdisciplinary view of the military phenomenon in a “long term” narrative, the common methodological component will (hopefully) allow to debate – within an international and up-to-date scope - the full potential of the various angles of approach, as for the design of research practices, and organization of collective research programs.