To celebrate its first year of existence, the IUS ILLUMINATUM Research Workshop is organizing on September 22, 2020, in collaboration with the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of NOVA FCSH, the Portuguese Institute of Heraldry, the Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare di Vercelli (Italia) and the Società Storica Vercellese (Italia), an international workshop entitled: “The Illuminated Legal Manuscript: Spaces, Territories and Contexts of receptions and use in Medieval Europe”. This is the second international workshop organized by the IUS ILLUMINATUM Research Workshop. The event aims to communicate to a wider audience the results of the research carried out by the team members during the first year of its existence, in order to take stock of what has already been done and outline possible research prospects. This workshop is also intended to provide an overview of the development of research on illuminated legal manuscripts in Europe, with the aim of reflecting on the methodological implications and the practical and theoretical challenges that this research entails. During this scientific event, different case studies related to some regions of European territory will be analyzed through an interdisciplinary approach in order to overcome limits and open up innovative and fruitful research avenues.
IUS ILLUMINATUM is made up of an international scientific team made up of historians of medieval art belonging to different European academic institutions, all specialized in illuminated legal manuscripts. The formation of this research team is linked to the current research project “ManJurEurIt. Itinerant European Legal Manuscripts” by Maria Alessandra Bilotta, doctoral researcher hired by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and integrated member of the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of the same University, acting as coordinator and main researcher of the team. The project “ManJurEurIt. “Europeus Itinerant Legal Manuscripts” aims to investigate the circulation of legal manuscripts in Portugal and its connections with artistic and social mobility in Mediterranean Europe. The research team intends to carry out a comparative study of the artistic, cultural and social currents revealed by the production and circulation of two illuminated legal manuscripts in medieval Europe. Each team member aims to investigate these phenomena through the study of specific types of legal manuscripts, within a defined region of Europe. The team will also consider the material aspects of medieval law books, with the collaboration of codicologists and archaeologists, analyzing the books as archaeological artefacts. Finally, another objective of the team’s work is to help promote and expand the discussion of these problems, organizing scientific meetings and establishing interdisciplinary contacts and collaborations with other research groups and scientific institutions. IUS ILLUMINATUM is based at the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, although its members maintain their own academic affiliations.
Organization: Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM-FCSH/NOVA); Oficina de investigação IUS ILLUMINATUM; Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare di Vercelli; Società Storica Vercellese
Scientific coordination: Maria Alessandra Bilotta (IEM-FCSH/NOVA – PI of the research team IUS ILLUMINATUM)
Organization: Maria Alessandra Bilotta (IEM-FCSH/NOVA – PI of the research team IUS ILLUMINATUM); Timoty Leonardi (Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare di Vercelli)
Contacts: iem.geral@fcsh.unl.pt; maria.bilotta@fcsh.unl.pt; info@tesorodelduomovc.it