This project is divided into three basic stages: the preparatory stage (first year), the interpretative stage (second and third years) and the final stage (fourth year), and is additionally scrutinised at several checkpoints. The preparatory stage involves field and archival research, qualitative source collation and the development of the interdisciplinary methodology that will be applied in the second stage. This stage includes the application of specific methods for the two major groups of objectives, which are related to the two research hypotheses. In the first stage, the research approach is essentially historiographical and includes fact-checking, while in the second and third stages it involves analysis, critique, a multidisciplinary approach, and interpretation.