Arqueología de las iglesias tardoantiguas en Galicia (ss. V-VIII). Una valoración de conjunto

Archaeology of churches can be a powerful and interesting platform to study Late Antique and Early Medieval societies. However, in Northwest Spain this topic remains limited to stylistic and typological studies, despite being a very promising area of study, given the high density of ecclesiastical foundations that reflect Late Antique texts. The first step in order to begin this kind of research is to collect and analyze the features and problems of the available material data. According this idea, the first part of this work intends to carry out a brief but complete recompilation and critical review (in some extent, for the first time) of the available but scattered material information on ecclesiastical structures in Late Antique Galicia, this is, between 5^thand 8^thcenturies. This catalogue, of 50 cases, will be based both in previous archaeological works and stylistic-typological approaches from the History of Art. These two areas have initiated in the last years interesting and intense debates about the chronologies and characteristics of the Late Antique and Early Medieval churches, but they remain usually separated to each other. In this work we will discuss the main problems and possibilities for a common approach. Further, in the last part, it is aimed to discuss the coherence of all these data in the historical context that the recent advances of the research on these centuries in Northwest Spain is showing: relation with textual evidences, spatial distribution of evidences in relation to late Roman territorial articulation in Galicia, new findings on the aristocratical economies... The result is not a complete picture of late antique churches in Galicia, something which needs further case-studies, but a first framework that can help to this future development.