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SUMMARY:A Geospatial Approach to Modelling Social\, Religious and Politica
 l Shifts in History - Mária Vargha\, Stefan Eichert
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DESCRIPTION:From the 10th c. onwards\, new polities emerged on the periphe
 ry of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE)\, the new centre of Christendom. Endowin
 g Christianity as an institutional system was integral to the emperor’s 
 power\, expanding his influence and securing his rule in the new kingdoms.
  Previous narratives have been generally constructed on the basis of limit
 ed written accounts\, which mainly concern the higher echelons of society\
 , emphasising the role of secular and ecclesiastical elites. However\, the
  ecclesiastical and secular administrative organisation of the rural popul
 ation could not be reconstructed satisfactorily from these sources\, despi
 te their importance for the stability of both State and Church. \nThe pres
 ent poster introduces the ERC StG RELIC (Modelling Religiopolitics. The Im
 perium Christianum via its Commoners)\, which proposes a complex\, compara
 tive analysis and contextualisation of archaeological and historical remai
 ns of the rural population living on the eastern fringes of the later HRE 
 during the Ottonian and Salian periods (10th -12th c.)\, exploring the inf
 luences of centres and networks of secular and ecclesiastical lords\, of t
 he natural environment\, and of the economic infrastructure. Investigating
  this often-overlooked segment of the population\, its hitherto unexplored
  or neglected role allows us to study how (top-level) changes in political
  and ecclesiastical organisations can be reflected in the evidence concern
 ing the lower levels of society and of the local church network\; how diff
 erent strategies worked in different political settings\, and what role lo
 cal initiatives/agencies could have played in religious and political shif
 ts. The archaeology of Christianisation frequently focuses on one crucial 
 aspect i.e. the division of pagan and Christian elements\, based predomina
 ntly on cemetery types and some aspects of the material culture. The spati
 al contextualisation of the burial customs and material remains\, especial
 ly their comparative and large-scale analysis\, could potentially bring ne
 w narratives about the pagan-Christian transition and the phenomenon of tr
 ansitional cemeteries. \nThe project uses the OpenAtlas (https://openatlas
 .eu) framework to conduct this analysis\, with respect to particular chara
 cteristics of object types and burial customs that are relevant to Christi
 anisation (https://openatlas.eu\, https://thanados.net). In the OpenAtlas 
 framework\, the data entry is directly mapped into predefined networks fol
 lowing the International Council of Museums’ Conceptual Reference Model 
 (CIDOC CRM). The model allows compatibility with different large datasets 
 and easy dissemination to the public\, also providing built-in features fo
 r fundamental statistical analysis. The system also allows the exportation
  of data\, which can be further analysed in already existing systems that 
 provide more possibilities for sophisticated analysis\, such as diverse GI
 S programmes or R framework. Proximity\, network\, and catchment analysis 
 will be conducted on the site level. Based on the results of the proof of 
 concept research\, the relation of the early church network to the landsca
 pe and to the early centres and power structures will be investigated by r
 econstructing ‘areas of influence’ of the early church network\, based
  on factors (environmental\, political\, social) influencing their site se
 lection. The spatial contextualisation of the – primarily archaeological
  – results creates a unique narrative concerning spatial dynamics charac
 terising the religious organisation of commoners\, which can be compared t
 o existing historical and archaeological theories concerning the role of c
 entral power and the circumstances the rural population and the local chur
 ch network played a part in the stabilisation of Christianity. \nRELIC’s
  innovation is supplementing large-scale spatial-quantitative analysis of 
 site level historical\, art historical and archaeological data with in-dep
 th qualitative comparative analysis of thoroughly-researched and published
  churchyard cemeteries. The spatial-comparative approach will identify the
  spatial configuration of social and religious networks of institutionalis
 ed Christianisation\, and this spatiality will be interpreted also as a pr
 oxy to the chronology of the process – of adaptation and expansion\, bey
 ond the point of view of the elites exposed in the chronicle tradition. Di
 fferent regional patterns will point to different dynamics\, hinting at th
 e respective causes\, for example\, different levels of influence of the C
 hurch and the secular state\, the problems of centralised coordination\, o
 f gradual or rapid expansions\, how this process potentially influenced th
 e later reorganisation of social structures\, of settlement networks and t
 heir nucleation processes. The comparative model of archaeological and his
 torical data will contribute to a better understanding of rural society an
 d its adaptation to the new social and religious systems and offer a ‘vi
 ew from below’ on major political and religious processes.\nThe present 
 paper proposes to introduce RELIC as a methodological model that can be ap
 plied to other areas of historical studies with thematic questions\, espec
 ially fields where traditional historical evidence is lacking. The project
  is developing a digital database of features connected to Christianisatio
 n\, and the present paper showcases the upsides and challenges of the exte
 nsive\, digital\, geospatial database.
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