Lectured by Professors Paulo Lopes, Tiago Viúla de Faria, and researcher Diana Martins, the NOVA – FCSH summer school course, “A Diplomacia na Idade Média” (Diplomacy in the Middle Ages) (25h), will take place between August 28th and September 8th, at the following times:

  • weekdays, from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Course objectives:

Internalize the specificity of diplomatic practice and foreign relations in the medieval period. In this sense, the student must be able to relate the various modalities and aspects that makeup diplomacy during the Middle Ages, in particular with regard to the kingdom of Portugal. The functions, skills, and sociology of diplomatic agents, as well as the regulations that underlie their operation and the types of missions they are part of or lead (in which material culture assumes rare importance), must also form part of the student’s framework of knowledge. Finally, it must learn from the study of historical, literary, and iconographic sources how diplomatic practices were represented at the time.