The "Medievalism of Cádiz" Research Group deals with various lines of research, as has been pointed out in the corresponding section. The researchers of the group have formed part, or are currently forming part, of different research projects, they publish in specialised journals and participate, as speakers and/or communicators in national and international congresses linked to their lines of research.
One of the lines of the group is the application of the prospographic methodology for the reconstruction of the Andalusian low-medieval societies. We must highlight the works for the leading groups of the kingdom of Seville published by Dr. Rafael Sánchez Saus, one of the leading specialists in these studies in the national framework. For the area of the Bay of Cadiz, Dr. Emilio Martín and Dr. Enrique Ruiz are deepening in recent years in the knowledge of social groups linked to craft, commercial and credit activities.
The research group has served as a cover to present the project "The interaction between society and the environment in the Guadalete basin in the Middle Ages (GUADAMED)" whose main researcher is Dr. Enrique Ruiz and in which the researchers Dr. Emilio Martín Gutiérrez and Dr. Luis Iglesias García are participating. This project was presented in the Call for Aid for R+D+i projects within the framework of the Andalusia 2014-2020 ERDF Operational Programme. Call for proposals 2018. The project was positively assessed and finally awarded the amount of 139,000 euros.
Society-Environmental Interaction in Western Andalusia in the Middle Ages
Maritime and coastal landscapes and societies
Prosopography of medieval Andalusian society
Digital Humanities and Geographic Information Systems
The research group has been characterized in recent years by the inclusion in their publications of graphic and cartographic material generated from Geographic Information Systems. Techniques and methodologies in continuous process of specialization in our ICT work center, the Agustin de Horozco Seminar (see the corresponding section). The importance of elaborating graphic material allows us to generate much more precise and careful representations of space that facilitate a better appreciation of the transformation of the natural environment in a diachronic key. GIS allow us, for example, to approach the environmental impact of human societies and to reconstruct from the paleo-costal or paleo-channel.