A carregar...
Publicação
Batalha de Aljubarrota: Novos elementos interpretativos
| Nome: | Descrição: | Tamanho: | Formato: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20.31 MB | Adobe PDF |
Autores
Orientador(es)
Resumo(s)
Ao cair da tarde de 14 de agosto de 1385, firmou-se no planalto de São Jorge a Batalha de Aljubarrota. A hoste anglo-portuguesa defrontara uma poderosa coligação franco-castelhana pela pretensão à coroa de Portugal, tendo alcançado uma derradeira vitória. Durante os séculos que se seguiram, os ecos de Aljubarrota mantiveram o episódio na memória dos portugueses. O estudo desta batalha ficara circunscrito às reflexões e reconstituições teóricas assentes em fontes documentais. No entanto, a partir de meados do século XX, com os primeiros ensaios arqueológicos no campo de batalha, a investigação sobre Aljubarrota adquire novos contornos, mais profundos e incisivos. O recorrente recurso a novos métodos e equipamento científico nos trabalhos de campo tem motivado novas teorizações e reformulações, mais distantes das anteriormes, tendo em vista uma maior aproximação à realidade dos acontecimentos. No seguimento deste conjunto de novos trabalhos de ordem prática, foi proposto para dissertação de doutoramento em arqueologia, a continuidade das sondagens no terreno. Tendo a hoste portuguesa sido disposta em dois locais distintos no dia batalha, um primeiro local apenas de avistamento e um segundo de confrontação, optámos por limitar a análise a uma destas posições. Os anteriores trabalhos arqueológicos centraram-se na segunda posição, a qual constitui o campo de batalha, o que nos influenciou a investigar, com semelhante metodologia e igual rigor, a primeira posição portuguesa em São Jorge. O presente projeto tenta, deste modo, identificar novos elementos interpretativos que permitam alargar a compreensão tática que envolvera duas posições num mesmo terreno, cada uma com o seu propósito mas partilhando do mesmo objetivo: obter uma vitória retumbante através de uma batalha campal.
On the afternoon of August 14, 1385, occurred the battle of Aljubarrota on the plateau of S. Jorge. An Anglo-Portuguese host had faced a powerful Franco-Castilian coalition for its claim to the Portuguese crown, having achieved, in the end, a victory. During the following centuries the echoes of Aljubarrota maintain the event live inside of the Portuguese´s memory. The study of this battle was for a long time confined to theoretical reconstitutions based only on documentary sources. However, from the mid-twentieth century, when the first archeological intervention on the battlefield takes place, researchers acquired new elements for study (pits and moats). Since then, the resource to new methods and scientific equipment in the field has motivated new historical formalizations, with results closer to the reality of the battle. Following the same methodology applied so far in the battle field, it was proposed for a PhD dissertation in archeology, the continuity of the survey and archeological investigation in Aljubarrota. Considered that Portuguese host was arranged in two different locations on the battle day, a first place where both enemies just stand in vision and a second one where the confrontation take place, we chose to examine one of these positions. The previous archaeological work focused only on the second position, which belong the battlefield. Our work pretends to extend the archaeological work to the first battle position. This project attempts to achieved new interpretative elements that allow us to understand a tactical conception that involved two positions on the same terrain, each one planed for a purpose but both sharing the same objective: to obtain a victory in a battle.
On the afternoon of August 14, 1385, occurred the battle of Aljubarrota on the plateau of S. Jorge. An Anglo-Portuguese host had faced a powerful Franco-Castilian coalition for its claim to the Portuguese crown, having achieved, in the end, a victory. During the following centuries the echoes of Aljubarrota maintain the event live inside of the Portuguese´s memory. The study of this battle was for a long time confined to theoretical reconstitutions based only on documentary sources. However, from the mid-twentieth century, when the first archeological intervention on the battlefield takes place, researchers acquired new elements for study (pits and moats). Since then, the resource to new methods and scientific equipment in the field has motivated new historical formalizations, with results closer to the reality of the battle. Following the same methodology applied so far in the battle field, it was proposed for a PhD dissertation in archeology, the continuity of the survey and archeological investigation in Aljubarrota. Considered that Portuguese host was arranged in two different locations on the battle day, a first place where both enemies just stand in vision and a second one where the confrontation take place, we chose to examine one of these positions. The previous archaeological work focused only on the second position, which belong the battlefield. Our work pretends to extend the archaeological work to the first battle position. This project attempts to achieved new interpretative elements that allow us to understand a tactical conception that involved two positions on the same terrain, each one planed for a purpose but both sharing the same objective: to obtain a victory in a battle.
Descrição
Palavras-chave
Batalha Aljubarrota Medieval Arqueologia Battle Archaeology