The VINCULUM project hereby welcomes the initiative by Beatriz Merêncio and Joana Soares, History students at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University (NOVA FCSH), to develop this communications program on the history of lineages and their founders.

Beatriz and Joana will play different roles both in the research work and in communicating the science, thus benefiting directly from their inclusion in an in-depth research project. It is with the greatest pleasure that the project hosts students from NOVA.FCSH academic courses and remains open to collaborating with other interested parties.

This new initiative, entitled “Entail of the Month”, is taking place on a monthly basis and will be developed in a virtual environment, on the Vinculum Project website, and with online distribution and dissemination.
The collaboration that is now beginning will also include the occasional participation of the VINCULUM Project team members and will focus on choices based on information collected during their research activities.

Contacts between research and society benefit all participants and may raise the awareness and attract the participation of other interested parties who, in turn, may bring along new information capable of contributing to the body of knowledge under production.

The first “Entail of the Month” is the Paço da Quinta Estate in Évora, established in 1355. The choice was made by the students Beatriz and Joana, as will happen again but the project is now open for anyone interested to send in suggestions.

To put forward your suggestion and other information about entails that you may have, please contact the project via the project email address: vinculum@fcsh.unl.pt.

In this way, and by reading and sharing these monthly entails, you will be engaging with the work of this international project and hence fostering the development of this field of study and its capacity to reach as wide an audience as possible.

The VINCULUM project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and led by Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Professor of NOVA FCSH and researcher at the Institute of Medieval Studies, awarded the first ERC Consolidator Grant to a Portuguese researcher in the field of History.