@misc{Nucciotti_Michele_Light_2019, author={Nucciotti, Michele and Vannini, Guido}, volume={50}, copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license}, address={Warszawa}, journal={Archaeologia Polona}, howpublished={online}, year={2019}, publisher={Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences}, language={eng}, abstract={The need to develop a method of territorial survey was felt by the rising discipline of medieval archaeology in Italy since the years of its initiation (about 1970–1980), when this area of research aimed address the issues raised by the French “Annalists” in studying the history of medieval societies. It was perhaps in Florence, under the guidance of the historian Elio Conti, that the essential conditions matured for a choice that identified archaeology as a meta-methodological tool able to produce documentation of the material facts ultimately useful for the purpose of historical reconstruction. Italian Medieval Archaeology also directed methodological efforts towards the use of non-invasive research tools. Another highly relevant contribution to international debates in this field was the adoption of stratigraphic theory for the study of historical architectural complexes that between the 1970s and the 1990s paved the way for a rich series of studies that in a decade came to cover the entire national territory.}, abstract={The “strategic project” of the University of Florence for Medieval Archaeology, dedicated to the study of Mediterranean feudal societies through their “archaeological profiles” has been set since 1998 within the framework of historical archaeology and methodological development.}, abstract={The research, conducted by the Chair of Medieval Archaeology, coordinates 11 local projects sampling a wide area between the Central Mediterranean and the Near East, with a particular focus on central Italy and south Jordan. Each project aims to produce a historical-archaeological interpretation of a cultural area in its production and socio-economic aspects, including cultural and ideological “profiles”. The paper will elaborate on the results achieved by research teams in Italy and Jordan with a special attention to actual contributions brought by the project to archaeological methods and historical interpretation in general.}, type={Text}, title={Light Archaeology and Territorial Analysis: Experiences and Perspectives of the Florentine Medievalist School}, URL={http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/Content/117545/PDF/WA308_145816_P357_Light-Archaeology_I.pdf}, keywords={Light Archaeology, territorial history, public archaeology, euro-Mediterranean middle age}, }