Archaeology, Church and interdisciplinarity in Catalonia during the first half of the 20th century

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Published 17-01-2020
Jordi Vidal

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In this article we analyse the role played by an interdisciplinary approach as envisaged by Catalan  ecclesiastical archaeologists during the first half of the twentieth century. We focus our analysis on four of the most prominent scholars in this field: Josep Gudiol, Pere Batlle, Norbert Font and Joan Serra Vilaró. The study carried out shows the existence of two very different tendencies on this issue. The first is limited to the field of Christian archaeology and refers to the development of a restricted interdisciplinary, involving only the so-called sciences of antiquity. The second trend, applied in the study of prehistoric archaeology, is much broader, and includes geology, physical anthropology, ethnography, etc. However, in both cases, the existence of a harmonious and apologetic resolve (less evident in the case of Serra Vilaró) decisively conditioned the type of relationship that archaeology established with the other disciplines throughout the period studied.

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