On 28 and 29 October 2026, the University of Bologna will host the international conference Oltre la separazione tra clero e popolo negli spazi sacri medievali: evidenze visive e norme liturgiche, dedicated to the study of the organisation of medieval sacred spaces and the separation between clergy and laity during the celebration of liturgical rites. […]
On 29 and 30 October 2026, the Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira in Lisbon will host the International Colloquium “Space and Virtue, Virtues of Space: Heraldry as an Instrument of Symbolic Appropriation between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.” The meeting proposes an in-depth reflection on the role of heraldry as a visual […]
The 2026 edition of the Medieval Studies Seminar (SEM), devoted in the second semester to the theme Warfare in the Middle Ages, will feature its third session with a lecture by António Conduto Oliveira, a researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture (CHSC – University of Coimbra), entitled Armour and Weaponry […]
On 12 November, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, the second session of the thematic strand “Living Landscapes”, part of NOVA FCSH’s “Studies on Animals and Plants” Masterclasses cycle, will take place. Entitled “Grapevines and Wine: From the Landscape of Domestication to the Post-Phylloxera Terroir”, the session will feature João Pedro Tereso, researcher at the IEM, […]
The exhibition presents a selection of animal illustrations found in a variety of works of travel literature. The chosen iconography includes illuminations from 15th-century manuscripts, as well as engravings published in printed books during the 15th and 16th centuries. Travellers and chroniclers, real or imagined, such as Marco Polo, Jean de Mandeville, André Thevet, Hans […]
Born on 10 February 1926, António Domingues de Sousa Costa devoted his scholarly work to Portuguese medieval history and, above all, ecclesiastical history. Over more than four decades, he conducted research in Portuguese and foreign archives, with particular emphasis on the Vatican Apostolic Archive, identifying and transcribing tens of thousands of documents relating to Portugal. […]
