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 […]
On 2nd and 3rd December, the 2nd edition of the series of Research in Medieval Studies scientific meetings is taking place at the Faculty of Letters, this year on the theme of Urban Parish Communities in Medieval Europe, 1049-1545 - a joint organisation by the Centre for History of Society and Culture (UC), the Institute […]
On the outset of the of the 21st century, cross-disciplinary studies on the Middle Ages seem to be in need of a careful reconsideration of their nature, scope and aims. This is especially so after the series of “turns” undergone by historiography in the last four decades. Despite their differences, philosophy, history, philology, literary studies and […]
The present session aims at presenting the work carried out by the ERC VINCULUM Project over its first two and a half years, with particular emphasis on the process of constructing, inserting and correcting its Database. About the authors: The VINCULUM project comprises the Principal Investigator Maria de Lurdes Rosa; the Senior Researcher Mário Farelo; […]
We place the trilogy of identity, memory and ideology at the centre of a project designed to better understand medieval society. We may thus analyse the multiplicity of personal identities, the ways in which these were expressed within particular social structures (such as feudalism), and their evolution into formal expressions of collective identity (municipalities, guilds, […]
This event details a study of Portuguese medieval surgeons in the chronological period ranging from the beginning of nationality to the close of the 15th century. Several parameters were studied for 405 individuals, including the geographic distribution around Portugal, socio-religious groups, inclusion in the surrounding society, legislation in force and relations with the royal power, […]
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 2021/2022, and in coordination with […]
About the author:David Porrinas González, with a PhD from Universidad de Extremadura: is a specialist in Medieval History. His doctoral thesis, entitled Guerra y caballería en la plena Edad Media: condicionantes y actitudes bélicas. Castilla y León, siglos XI al XIII, was awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Degree Prize of the Universidad de Extremadura in 2015. […]
The Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) runs the Conference Cycle "Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI)" (Living, reading and praying in Lorvão Abbey (13th to 16th centuries)), integrated into the project Books, Rituals and Space in a Cistercian Nunnery. Living, Praying and Reading in Lorvão, 13th-16th centuries (ref. […]
The Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM-NOVA FCSH), in partnership with the Centre of Religious History Studies (UCP-CEHR), runs the International Seminar on Medieval Religious History, which thus returns with a new format and scope but in the tradition of the previous Medieval Religious History Seminar cycles, interrupted in 2013. In 2021/2022, and in coordination with […]
The Webinars Cycle “Dialogues of Art, History and Law” is organized by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM- NOVA/FCSH), together with the IUS ILLUMINATUM research team and in partnership with the Portuguese Heraldry Institute (IPH), the Capitular Library of Verona and the Capitular Library of Vercelli. This initiative, organized by a scientific and organizational committee […]
This paper will trace the existing vestiges of the community of Andalusian Christians in the city of Huesca (Spain). This group has been completely invisible in the written sources, both Arabic and Latin, and the material record does not help to reconstruct its history. A model of study will be proposed here, in which not […]