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International Congress “Imago, Actum et Verbum. Desafios e interrogações nos Estudos Medievais: um diálogo interdisciplinar entre filologia, filosofia, história, arte e literatura”

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 […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies: “O Projeto ERC VINCULUM: realizações e perspectivas após dois anos e meio de trabalho” – ERC Vinculum Project Team

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; […]

2nd IEM 2021 Conference: “Identity, Memory and Ideology in the Middle Ages” – Flocel Sabaté (Universitat de Lleida)

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, […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies – “Cirurgiões medievais portugueses – mitos, preconceitos e realidades” – Cristina Moisão (CHAM – NOVA FCSH)

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, […]

International Seminar of Medieval Religious History: “Le Temple et le culte marial au long du chemin de Saint-Jacques: la commanderie de Villalcázar de Sirga au XIIIe siècle” – Philippe Josserand (Université de Nantes)

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 […]

I Conference Cycle “Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI)”: “D. Sancho I, o conflito com os monges de Lorvão e a introdução das monjas cistercienses em Portugal” – Maria João Branco (IEM – NOVA FCSH)

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. […]

International Seminar on Medieval Religious History: “Material Actants of Jerusalem – Pilgrimage in Late Medieval Iberia” – Nicolas Jaspert (Universität Heidelberg)

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 […]

Cycle of International and Interdisciplinary Webinars “Dialogues of Art, History and Law”

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 […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies: “Notas para el estudio de una comunidad invisible. Cristianos andalusíes en Huesca (ss. VIII-XII)” – Rodrigo Moreno (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

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 […]

I Conference Cycle “Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI)”: “A guarda da memória: os inventários da Época Moderna do cartório do mosteiro de Lorvão” – Maria do Rosário Barbosa Morujão (University of Coimbra)

The Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) is hosting the "Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI)" (Living, reading and praying in Lorvão Abbey (13th to 16th centuries)) Conference Cycle, integrated into the Books, Rituals and Space in a Cistercian Nunnery. Living, Praying and Reading in Lorvão, 13th-16th centuries project […]