This paper intends to advance with a first analysis to the logics of continuity between the Islamic period and the moments after the Christian conquest, detectable in the ceramics produced in several cities and regions of nowadays Portuguese territory. Although the preliminary nature of this approach, an interpretation of confirmed regional differences is attempted, based on factors such as latitude, temporal s...
Since its inception in 2008, the Islamic Ceramics from Gharb al-Andalus Study Group (CIGA) has been particularly concerned with the terminology employed to designate ceramic forms in academic literature, in particular to create consensus within the scientific community. Given the lack of standardization, a thesaurus is proposed here. A separate problem is to determine which terms to adopt in other languages, a ...
Um dos principais elementos caracterizadores da sociedade islâmica medieval e a predominância da cidade na organização territorial e a sua estreita interligação com o meio rural que a envolve. Esta relação campo/cidade e o resultado de um longo processo de reorganização do povoamento e da sua articulação territorial, a partir das realidades da Antiguidade Tardia. As formas de articulação dessa relação, o raio d...