El conjunto paleocristiano del Francolí en Tarragona. Nuevas aportaciones

Early Christian Archaeology: A State of the Field

“…But the former has no convincing sixth‐century remains (Hodges 2007), while the later is simply a domus , with no outward signs of anything specifically ‘monastic’, such as cells or a common eating area. Other examples, such as the complex at Diaporit near Butrint in Albania (Bowden & Përzhita 2004), or that discovered outside Tarragona at Parc Central (Mar et al. 1996), display physical signs we associate with later monasteries – such as a church accompanied by a range of rooms around a courtyard, but that have also been plausibly identified as the hostelries of martyr shrines.…”

“…But the former has no convincing sixth-century remains (Hodges 2007), while the later is simply a domus, with no outward signs of anything specifically 'monastic', such as cells or a common eating area. Other examples, such as the complex at Diaporit near Butrint in Albania (Bowden & Përzhita 2004), or that discovered outside Tarragona at Parc Central (Mar et al 1996), display physical signs we associate with later monasteries -such as a church accompanied by a range of rooms around a courtyard, but that have also been plausibly identified as the hostelries of martyr shrines. It is only in the later seventh and eighth centuries that charter evidence and archaeology together convincingly allow us to more convincingly identify monastic sites, although again, typically only the church is preserved (Cantino Wataghin 1997;Cantino Wataghin et al 2000).…”

Les basíliques paleocristianes del suburbi occidental de Tarraco. El temple septentrional i el complex martirial de Sant Fructuós

“…Al llarg dels anys següents vaig seguir estudiant tota la problemàtica, però amb una intensitat desigual, a causa de les feines que paral•lelament havia de desenvolupar en el si de la Universitat. En aquest període es van publicar alguns escrits de caire molt genèric sobre les troballes (MAR [et al], 1996;LÓPEZ, 2000a;LÓPEZ 2000b) i algun estudi específic (LÓPEZ, 1999, i CORTÉS-LÓPEZ, 1999. El període més productiu ha estat sens dubte el darrer any i mig, en què des de l'Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica se m'ha donat l'oportunitat d'una plena dedicació.…”