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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 […]

This is the second year of the conference cycle, which is organized and promoted by the UNESCO Chair “The Cultural Heritage of the Oceans.” Between February and November 2022, we will have a monthly guest on the last Thursday of the month for a conference broadcast live on the Chair's YouTube Channel. This cycle of […]

On 25th February 2022, there is the Workshop “Concorrer ao Estímulo Individual FCT” (Applying to the FCT Individual Incentive Program), an initiative especially dedicated to the presentation and discussion of accepted projects in contrast with other successful experiences of similar projects presented or co- presented by IEM researchers. All of the information and procedures are […]

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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 (https://iusilluminata.fcsh.unl.pt) 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 […]

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 Think Big About Small Border Towns project has organised the seminar "Ferramentas para uma investigação multidisciplinar sobre pequenas cidades na Idade Média" (Tools for multidisciplinary research on small towns in the Middle Ages). The seminar - open to the attendance and participation of all interested parties – seeks to establish the basic conditions needed […]

Due to the current pandemic, this conference had to be postponed. The illuminated Romanesque Bibles preserved in Portuguese institutions remain, today as in the Middle Ages, manuscripts of great importance. Apart from their religious dimension, as sacred books, they are also works of unquestionable cultural and artistic interest. This is undoubtedly a cultural heritage of […]

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 […]

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 […]

To commemorate and celebrate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of this place of worship certainly represents a source of pride and satisfaction for all the people of Coimbra, the Portuguese and all those worldwide interested in heritage and the Cistercian communities. Santa Maria de Celas, like all Portuguese monastic houses, suffered from the abolition […]

This paper, where we are going to present the results of our doctoral thesis project, focuses its attention on the study of the lordships, properties, rents and patrimony linked to the Duchy of Alcalá and the County of Santa María, governed by the Enríquez de Ribera and Cerda lineage, located in the old kingdom of […]