WORKSHOP \"TRAVELSCAPES Landscape perception and unknown environments exploration: New perspectives into Classical and Medieval journey\"

Roads have always been addressed as formidable channels through which people, goods, news, ideas and cultures are transferred, and they indeed constitute the ‘circulatory system’ of entities such as regions, states, continents. They are means through which social, economic and cultural patterns are conveyed, and languages, traditions, religions, habits, fashions, musical practices and material culture are transmitted.Archaeological methodologies for their investigation have been refining to the point that a specific branch of studies, called Archaeology of Roads, has developed. Contributions from Landscape Archaeology, Geography, History, Literature and Art History concurred to investigate communication networks in our past.More recently, the international panorama has further developed with important inputs from Anthropology, Cognitive Psychology and Environmental Studies. A new theoretical framework for the study of roads brought to the concept of Landscape of movement.However, research has been uneven depending on geographical areas and traditions of studies. In this way, despite the universality of these concepts, some scholars have been working in isolation, with rare cross-fertilisation of new insights and original approaches.The aim of this meeting is therefore to compare very different approaches to the study of communication networks and travel in the past and in the present, introducing innovative methods to explore how the way we move influences "landscape experience and representation", and how mobility is constructed and practiced.The final goal is to create the ground for an international debate that will reinforce interdisciplinary interaction and will hopefully give rise to a new, more global approach to the study of Landscape of Movements.