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Gian Galeazzo Visconti’s death in 1402 created a significant power vacuum in northern Italy. Venice feared that the Carraresi would have encircled it by threatening land routes for its trade with Italy and Europe. The Venetian choice of military intervention initiated an extraordinary territorial expansion for the Serenissima, which added a mainland state to its […]

If the present indelibly influences the historiography produced in each period, the current health crisis further conditions - regarding the choice of the theme and the circumstances of its realization - the next meeting of the Small Cities in Time Network, to take place in the spring 2021.  Thus, all interested researchers are invited to […]

Based on a case study of the Portuguese curial aristocracy in the late Middle Ages, this paper aims to demonstrate the workings of matrimonial exchanges taking place in a dominant group. For this purpose, it is fundamental to consider the prevailing conceptions and representations of marriage, essentially elaborated by the ecclesial institution. The intention involves […]

EMBIO - Early Medieval Bioanthropology Meetings are organized by CIAS – Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (University of Coimbra) and IEM (Institute for Medieval Studies – NOVA FCSH). The meetings will be held every three years in different Portuguese and Spanish cities and will focus on different topics.   EMBIO is intended to be a […]

This paper aims to generally present the figure of the convert within the Cistercian Order and its evolution throughout the 12th and 13th centuries. The issue of conversion allows us to address a series of topics of great relevance to studying the Cistercian Order, such as the relationship between the Cistercians and other forms of […]

The last twenty-five years have seen a renewal of landscape archaeology and rural archaeology studies. The introduction of new methodologies and new approaches has led to new approaches and approaches that take us beyond Thomas Glick's landscapes of conquest, or Toubert's construction of the frontier and a country of husūn, fathers of the discipline along […]

Francisco García Fitz holds a PhD in History from the University of Seville and is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Extremadura. His main line of research has revolved around medieval warfare in general, and more specifically on the political and military relations between Christians and Muslims in medieval Spain. He is the […]

In as early as the 1970s, G. Battelli was drawing attention to the influence of the papal chancellery on the various European chancelleries, which of course derived from this body holding responsibility for the documentary production of the Vatican's communications to the reigning monarchs. At the end of the 1990s, José Marques presented a first […]

The Bubonic Plague was an event of almost unique proportions. The mythification of this event that has built up over the subsequent centuries demonstrates the depth of its impact and consequences as well as the place it holds in the European and Mediterranean collective memory. Aware of this importance, and encountering a lack of in-depth […]

Situated on the very margins of the Western Catholic world in the Middle Ages, Bosnia was relatively late in accepting and adopting heraldic symbolism. In fact, Bosnian rulers were the first to use coats-of-arms on their coins and seals from the 1330’s and 1340’s, while the highest nobility of the realm was quick to follow […]