Power in landscape. Geographic and digital approaches on historical research

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Novák, David
Emblems of power, administrative centres or luxurious residences? A digital archaeological analysis of medieval and post-medieval elite manorial seats.
Power in landscape. Geographic and digital approaches on historical research. Leipzig: Eudora-Verlag, 2019 - (Popović, M.; Polloczek, V.; Koschicek, B.; Eichert, S.), s. 245-274. ISBN 978-3-938533-69-7
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2015080; GA MŠMT(CZ) EF16_013/0001439
Klíčová slova: castle studies * GIS * landscape archaeology
Obor OECD: Archaeology

Elite seats, or manors, which were temporarily and spatially continuous phenomena characterised by certain formal attributes, represented a wide network of purposes and functions that helped shape medieval and post-medieval realities. This paper introduces an approach based on a formalised description of various sites followed by an analysis of the functional relationships and purposes of elite seats. Using digital tools, the main goal is to identify and describe the relation of the respective sites to both landscape and settlement networks, while following the “structural” aspects of the social behaviour. To describe the terrain, several landscape features (e.g. visibility, networks of natural routes, water bodies, landform types) were modelled using GIS, with almost 2000 sites of different categories (castles, fortified manors, curias, chateaus, etc.) delineated based on ALS data and terrain documentation. This paper discusses the theoretical and methodological bases of current European castellology. Taking the example of Bohemia, it jettisons the traditional approach and replaces it with an appropriate methodological framework for an innovated theoretical model to describe the role of elite residences in past societies.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299389