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Since many decades ago the Art History, as a scientific discipline, has showed an enormous disability to studying the artistic contemporary practices. Entrenched in old methodological criteria, the art historians reject any issue from which we are not separated by a considerable temporary distance. This problem, to which the History has given response from the History of the present time, is an insurmountable obstacle for the Art history. In this paper, we try to raise the methodological possibilities of a Art history of the present, exploring how the contemporary art practices can help us to rethink some of the methodological dogmas of the discipline.Keywords: Contemporary art, historiography, History of the present, methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, the study of texts has been privileged over archaeology in medieval historiography. However, during the last twenty years, the theoretic and methodological contribution of medieval archaeologists, as well as the results of their research, has lead to a new understanding of the relation between the two disciplines, which also implies the questioning of the old historiographical thesis. This paper will expose the problems that the lack of a common theoretical frame poses in attempt to find the links that could enable us to produce a unitary historical knowledge. We will consider some of the aspects of the debate in the light of our own research work: the study of space and power in the County of Monzón, and the rural settlement of the Valle del Río Almar between the Second Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]