The IEM - Institute of Medieval Studies and the IHC - Institute of Contemporary History, both research units of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University are combining to organise the seminar "Portugal as Brazil's medieval past. The cultural and political contexts of tropical Portuguese medievalism". Bringing together a diverse group of researchers, […]
Speaker: Luís Correia de Sousa It is not overstating that no book had such an impact on the intellectual life of the medieval West as the Bible, having become, by the 13th century, a true best-seller. New communities of readers, the patronage of the aristocracy, and new resources for the interpretation of the texts are […]
The second session of the cycle “Manuscritos de Alcobaça II” will take place on April 20th, and will feature lectures by Jonathan Wilson and Maria João Branco, both researchers from the Institute of Medieval Studies of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University (IEM-NOVA FCSH). 1st Conference:"Alcobaça and the Liturgy of […]
The third session of the cycle “Manuscritos de Alcobaça II” will take place on May 11, and will feature lectures by Conceição Casanova (FCT and REQUIMTE NOVA) and by Paulo Catarino Lopes and Catarina Fernandes Barreira, both researchers from the Institute of Medieval Studies of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA […]
In the last decade several lines of research in history and archives have promoted new perspectives on the construction of archives and historical sources. These new currents, in the field of historical archivistics and the epistemology of history, raise the question of the revaluation of family archives, not only as repositories of alternative documentary sources […]
Speaker: Delmira Espada Custódia The Holford Hours, illuminated in the first half of the 16th century (1526), were executed in Flanders by Gerard Horenbout and Simon Bening. They are part of a series of works of great importance, characterized by collaboration between artists of equal merit and by the growing affirmation of the pictorial development […]
The fourth session of the cycle “Manuscritos de Alcobaça II” will take place on June 15, and will feature lectures by Saul António Gomes from the Center for History of Society and Culture of the University of Coimbra (CHSC-UC) and Mário Farelo from the Institute of Medieval Studies of the School of Social Sciences and […]
Speaker: Ragnhild M. Bø The Book of Hours LA237 was illuminated by the so-called Master of Bedford for Princess Joan of France around 1415. The Book contains 32 full-page miniatures, each surrounded by small records with episodes alluding to the central theme, except for two. These two are inspired by images from Gautier de Coincy's […]
