Reconstruction of the landscape of late medieval southern Portugal is hampered by the scarceness of physical evidence after the subsequent centuries of evolution. The aim of this article is to understand how the spread of eremitical communities in this region interacted with the existing landscape, contributing to its transformation. A multiscale analysis is carried out through the examination of historical records containing scattered data about the landscape system. This methodology is applied to a specific case study, the Portuguese eremitical congregation of São Paulo da Serra de Ossa, in southern Portugal. Although fragmentary and dispersed, primary sources from between 1366 and 1578 are useful in reconstructing the components of this landscape. Initial results show the definition of a typical Mediterranean form of settlement: “agro-sylvo-pastoral.”

经过随后几个世纪的演变，中世纪晚期葡萄牙南部景观的重建因物证稀缺而受到阻碍。本文的目的是了解该地区隐居社区的传播如何与现有景观相互作用，从而促进其转变。通过检查包含景观系统分散数据的历史记录来进行多尺度分析。该方法适用于一个具体案例研究，即葡萄牙南部圣保罗达塞拉德奥萨的葡萄牙隐修会。1366 年至 1578 年间的主要资料虽然支离破碎且分散，但对于重建该景观的组成部分很有用。初步结果显示了典型地中海定居点形式的定义：