Descripción del proyecto
La arquitectura naval mediterránea a principios de la Edad Moderna en el punto de mira
El barco fue una herramienta esencial en el proceso de construcción de Europa a finales de la Edad Media y a principios de la Edad Moderna. En aquel momento, la construcción naval estaba dividida en dos culturas técnicas: la atlántica y la mediterránea. Esta última sigue estando poco estudiada debido a la escasez de escritos existentes y de documentación arqueológica. El proyecto ModernShip Project, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende caracterizar la construcción naval mediterránea en relación con su equivalente atlántica y dirigir la creación de un modelo constructivo mediterráneo. En última instancia, el proyecto aspira a destacar un sistema de construcción naval en el cual estos dos espacios náuticos han estado en permanente interacción desde la Edad Media, y a comprender toda la complejidad de sus intercambios y transferencias de tecnología.
Objetivo
"The knowledge of modern naval architecture reached an important stage in the late 80’s with the first characterization of 16th century Ibero-Atlantic shipbuilding drafted by Thomas Oertling. Together with the contribution made by this work to the definition of an architectural model for the ‘Atlantic’ nautical space, it has paved the way for a better understanding of the spatial organization of shipbuilding, where two quite distinct technical cultures coexist, the first called ""Atlantic"" and the second called ""Mediterranean"". Over the last 30 years, however, little progress has been made in describing these models, particularly the Mediterranean one, due to a lack of wrecks.
The discoveries of the wrecks of Mortella (1527,France) and Santiago de Galicia (1597, Spain), both of Mediterranean shipbuilding tradition, together with the discovery of the probable Mediterranean constructive origin of other wreck dated from the 16th c. (Yarmouth Road, UK) change this situation. The prospect of the analysis of this archaeological data in conjunction with that of the two already documented wrecks of Mediterranean origin (Lomellina and Calvi I, 16th c.) opens the way, for the first time, to the draft of a Mediterranean technical model. By comparing it to the Atlantic model, it also enable a first approach to the technical organization of European shipbuilding as a whole.
Therefore, the essential objective of my research project is to contribute to the knowledge of these nautical spaces conceived as ""technical spaces"" by prioritizing the study of Mediterranean technical culture, still largely unknown, and to characterize it in relation to its Atlantic counterpart. It eventually aims to understand and highlight a shipbuilding system in which these two nautical spaces have been in continuous interaction since the Middle Ages, and to try to comprehend them in all the complexity of their exchanges and technological transfers.
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinador
28006 Madrid
España