Arquitectura cristiana balear en la antigüedad tardía (siglos v-x dc)

Identifier:  TDX:921

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX921

Authors:  Alcaide González, Silvia

Abstract:
Rural Christian architecture constitutes an essential material evidence for both the landscape and historical reconstruction of the Balearic Islands during the late Antiquity. Churches excavated so far have been indirectly dated back to the 5th and 6th centuries AD and they are distributed along the Mallorca and Menorca islands. This PhD thesis provides an overview of the Balearic Islands’ rural architecture during the late Antiquity period by assessing the state-of-the-art and performing the archaeological analysis of the different studied sites. The research work also includes the study of other aspects of this architecture, such as building techniques, ornaments and tools, liturgical and burial areas and nearby domestic or productive spaces. The architectural study comprises an assessment on the ancient building forms, in which a reconstruction hypothesis of the Son Bou and Fornàs de Torelló’ churches is proposed.