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Born on 10 February 1926, António Domingues de Sousa Costa devoted his scholarly work to Portuguese medieval history and, above all, to ecclesiastical history. Over more than four decades, he worked extensively in Portuguese and foreign archives, with particular focus on the Vatican Apostolic Archive, identifying and transcribing tens of thousands of documents relating to […]

On 20 February, between 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm, the round table “Why Viriatus and not Rechiarius or Ibn Qasi? Heroes, Everyday Life and Identity in the 20th and 21st Centuries” will take place at Amphitheatre III of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. The event aims to discuss the […]

maria.bilotta@fcsh.unl.ptThe 1st session of the 5th Cycle of International Webinars “Dialogues of Art, History and Law” will take place on 27  February, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm, via the Zoom platform. The session will be dedicated to the theme “Heraldic Imagery: Between Spirituality and Normativity” and will be coordinated by Miguel Metelo de Seixas. […]

Gender, negotiation, collaboration, and autonomy in the shaping of liturgical practice in female mendicant convents: between texts, spaces, and images Abstract The belief in the passive existence of women’s communities within the female branches of religious orders, combined with the assumption that there were no sources capable of documenting their lives and religious practices, long […]

OVERVIEW This training course aims to provide an overview of the House of Avis through a set of traditional sources — contemporary chronicles — reinterpreted and analysed from an updated historiographical perspective, allowing for broad pedagogical use. The scheduled presentations focus on five major figures of Portuguese chronicle writing from the 15th and 16th centuries, […]

The 2nd session of the 5th Cycle of International Webinars “Dialogues of Art, History and Law” will take place on 27 March, from 16:30 to 18:30 (Lisbon time), via the MS Teams platform. The session will focus on “The Leges Langobardorum Project: Results, Methods, and Perspectives”, coordinated by Silvia Faccin (Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli) and […]

Marc Bloch will be solemnly honoured with his entry into the Panthéon of the French Republic in June 2026. This symbolic gesture represents far more than a posthumous consecration: it is the recognition of a singular figure whose life and work left an indelible mark on contemporary historiography and, with it, on the very idea […]

The Medieval Studies Seminar (SEM) – 2026 edition, dedicated in its first semester to the theme “Women in a Monastic Context in the Middle Ages”, continues on April 9 (Thursday), at 4:00 pm, with its third session, in webinar format. The session will feature Luís Rêpas (Centre for the History of Society and Culture, University […]

As part of the 5th cycle of the international and interdisciplinary webinars Dialogues of Art, History and Law, a new session will take place on 17 April 2026 at 16:30 (Lisbon time), in an online format via the Microsoft Teams platform. Promoted by the research group IUS ILLUMINATUM, in collaboration with the Institute for Medieval […]