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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM-NOVA FCSH), in partnership with the Centre of Religious History Studies (UCP-CEHR), promotes the International Seminar on Medieval Religious History, which thus resumes, with a new format and scope, the tradition of the previous cycles of the Medieval Religious History Seminar, interrupted in 2013. In the year 2021/2022, and in […]

In this session will be presented the reality of the illumination of the manuscripts of the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X and its weight in the total manuscript production of this work, highlighting the various iconographic types existing in the manuscripts and their relationship with other late medieval legal iconic repertoires. Similarly, the various types […]

Often seen as a time of stagnation, isolation and rupture, when the immobility deriving from interruptions to trade along land and sea routes was the key conditioning factor, the Middle Ages has literally been "underestimated" by certain schools of thought that conceive these centuries as a period of generalised regression, something that simply happened in […]