“Em demanda da Pintura Medieval Portuguesa”, by Luís Urbano Afonso This lecture aims to show that the current pre-eminence attributed to painting in the context of plastic arts results […]
A brief history of writing will serve as an introduction to the study of the illuminated manuscript. The passage from the scroll to the codex, with all the transformations that […]
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, […]
This year, from October 10th to the 12th, the Institute for Medieval Studies of NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IEM-NOVA FCSH) and the […]
No color compares to red; It is the archetypal color, the first to be dominated and reproduced by humanity in wall paintings and body adornments. Linked to fire and blood […]
Marcello Simonetta, Università la Sapienza (Roma), The Medici Archive Project (Florence), The American University (Paris), is the invited speaker of the first conference organized by Maria de Lurdes Rosa under […]
Although contemporary with the great development of Judaism in southern France, the poetry of the Provençal troubadours (12th-14th centuries) does not seem to denounce particularly relevant points of contact with […]
The Cancioneiro da Ajuda is a precious manuscript that collects some of the songs of the Galician-Portuguese troubadours. It is precious as a codex, with its rich (albeit incomplete) illuminations, […]
The program for the conference Crossing the Divide? Experiences of Conversion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era, co-organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies of […]
The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. This has enabled a more cohesive reading of the way in which […]
Vera Klontza is a researcher and full professor at the University of Brno (Czech Republic), working mainly on Classical and High Medieval Archaeology. For two decades she has been carrying […]
As part of the Cultures of Vines and Wine project, which brings together researchers from different universities and research centres with the aim of promoting research focused on the cultural […]