The study of Early Modern Iberian footwear is taking its first steps. Both historiography and archaeological research have devoted little attention to this issue and organic remains found in excavation even tend to be discarded. This paper will address the results of DRESS project’s questioning about courtly footwear, whose research benefited from a multidisciplinary team that included archaeologists familiar with the assemblages from which it was still possible to recover remains for analysis. The data provided and analysed starts with the study of the footwear evidence found in the Angra D shipwreck (Azores), a 16th century site. However, we soon noticed that this isolated study did not comprehensively provide information on the subject and two other intertidal archaeological sites were added: assemblages from Santa Clara-a-Velha (Poor Clares) Monastery in Coimbra (late 16th and 17th century), situated on the south bank of the Mondego River, and archaeological remains from the Campo das Cebolas (Old Market), on Lisbon waterfront (16th–17th century). Data from three archaeological sites were collected, drawn, and analysed, and a comparative methodology was applied. In the absence of syntheses for Iberian world, we used both critical bibliographies pertaining to North European collections and visual parallels, resulting on the first typological series of Iberian footwear.
Founded in 1573 by Rui Salema and Catarina Sotto Mayor Salema, the Convento de Nossa Senhora de Aracoeli was located in the old house of the Order of Santiago. Extinct in 1874 it was in ruins by the renovation undertaken for the building of Pousada D. Afonso II. Following the excavation, carried out between 1993 and 1997, expressive archaeological remains were identified, including a diverse collection of Portuguese faience. The issue that is presented relates to incised motifs which the study of the faience, collected in two sites from the conventual fence, reveled. Therefore, this study uses a selected assemblage as a socioeconomic indicator, leading it to be associated with the conventual, perhaps prophylactic, daily routine of Alcácer do Sal.
O bairro da Mouraria corresponde ao espaço para onde foram expulsos os muçulmanos de Lisboa após a conquista cristã da cidade em 1147. Uma das suas principais atividades foi a olaria, facto hoje amplamente demonstrado pela arqueologia. Os muçulmanos foram instigados a converter-se em 1496, mas o bairro manteve a sua identidade, o seu carácter artesanal e marginal, não obstante os ensaios de higienização. Nas últimas décadas tem continuado a receber vagas de imigrantes, mas hoje encontra-se em profunda transformação, com o turismo e a gentrificação, expulsando as camadas populares. As operações de arqueologia de contrato multiplicaram-se no âmbito desta renovação urbana, permitindo o registo das realidades passadas. Este artigo propõe refletir sobre a valorização desse legado artesanal, produtivo e forâneo do bairro, identificado pela arqueologia, perante uma comunidade em fragmentação e renovação, questionando o papel do património histórico-arqueológico na recuperação de identidades em sociedades de transição.
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