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1st IEM Conference 2021: “Las últimas líneas de investigación sobre la guerra en la Península Ibérica medieval” – Francisco Garcia Fitz

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 […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies “Palavras e imagens da documentação pontifícia em Portugal: imitação e/ou propaganda?” – Cristina Cunha (CITCEM, UP)

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 […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies: “A Peste Negra em duas regiões de Portugal: resultados de uma investigação de doutoramento” – André Silva (CITCEM-UP and CIDEHUS-UÉ)

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 […]

RURALIA XIV Conference – “Household goods in the European Medieval and Early Modern countryside”

RURALIA is an international association for the archaeology of medieval settlement and rural life. It provides a European-wide platform for the scientific exchange on current problems in rural archaeology in order to strengthen comparative and interdisciplinary studies. The conference covers the period from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern periods. The conference language is […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies: “The medieval foundations of Illyrian heraldry” – Emir Filipovic (Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu (Odsjek za historiju)

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 […]

1st International Congress of the Research Project IUS ILLUMINATUM – The Illuminated Legal Manuscript from the Middle Ages to the Digital Age. Forms, Iconographies, Materials, Uses and Cataloguing

On 22-25 September 2021, to celebrate its third year of existence, the Research Workshop IUS ILLUMINATUM is organising, in collaboration with the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of NOVA/FCSH, the Portuguese Institute of Heraldry, the Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo and Archivio Capitolare di Vercelli (Italy), the Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona (Italy) and the […]

Autumn School 2021

The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM – NOVA FCSH) and the Municipality of Castelo de Vide are organizing a Autumn School for twenty Master’s and PhD students in medieval studies, that will take place during the 5th and the 6th of October in Castelo de Vide. The goal of this initiative is to create a place for […]

VI International Conference on the Middle Ages Everyday life in Medieval urban Europe

Medieval towns were large human concentrations where men, women, and children led different daily lives, depending on the places they lived and worked, and personal attributes including gender, religion, social status, and income. At times, the apparent mundanity of daily life could be interrupted by major events. Whilst some were joyous such as festivities and […]

4th International Seminar “Images and Liturgy in the Middle Ages – Creation, Circulation and Function of Images between West and East in the Middle Ages (5th-15th centuries)”

Organization: Instituto de Estudos Medievais – NOVA-FCSH  Research Group: Magistri Cataloniae. Estudis Culturals de la Mediterrània (s. XI-XV) (SGR 2017-231), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB); Proyecto de Investigación: Magistri Mediterranei. Movilidad y transferencia artística en el Mediterráneo Medieval (1187-1388). Artistas, objetos y modelos (HAR2015-63883-P), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Mosteiro da Batalha – DGPC  Scientific coordination: Manuel Antonio […]

Doctoral Retreat 2021

Meeting between supervisors and co-supervisors and PhD students about their projects (Zoom sessions).

Seminar in Medieval Studies: “Cortes y manuscritos. Herramientas digitales para la investigación y divulgación de la cultura escrita medieval en la Corona de Aragón” – Miriam Cabré and Sadurní Martí (Universitat de Girona – Institut d’Estudis Catalans)

The Cançoners DB database gathers the research on Catalan songbooks that our research group has carried out in the last decades, with the idea of systematizing the data on one of the main medieval literary traditions, placed in the context of the written culture of the Crown of Aragon and also of its contacts with […]

José Mattoso International Seminar 2021: A “História Contemplativa – De regresso a novos caminhos na investigação”

The José Mattoso International Seminar 2021 - A História Contemplativa - De regresso a novos caminhos na investigação (Contemplative History - Back to new paths in research) , still in a virtual format, will take place around Contemplative History the latest book by the well-known Medievalist. Adopting a review of this work and essay as […]