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Open Seminar: “Ferramentas para uma investigação multidisciplinar sobre pequenas cidades na Idade Média”

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 […]

International Conference: “Produção e circulação da Bíblia em Portugal. Itinerários dos manuscritos iluminados românicos”

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 […]

International Seminar on Medieval Religious History: “Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life” – Prof. Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London)

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 […]

Cycle of International and Interdisciplinary Webinars Dialogues of Art, History and Law: “Images and Texts in Medieval Legal Manuscripts and Documents”

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 […]

800 years – the Abbey of Santa Maria de Celas

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 […]

Seminar of Medieval Studies | “Hacienda y Fiscalidad Señorial en Andalucía Medieval (siglos XIV – XVI)” – Jesús M. García Ayoso (Universidad de Málaga)

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 […]

Heraldry in Traveling European Legal Manuscripts – 3rd Cycle of International and Interdisciplinary Webinars: 1st session

The 3rd Webinars Cycle "Heraldry in Traveling European Legal Manuscripts" is part of the research project "ManJusEurIt - European Traveling Legal Manuscripts" conducted by Maria Alessandra Bilotta, also linked to activities of the IUS ILLUMINATUM research team (https: //iusilluminata.fcsh.unl.pt) scientifically coordinated by the same researcher.  The Webinar Cycle is organized by the Institute of Medieval […]

I Conference Cycle “Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão”: “Espaço e liturgia nos mosteiros cistercienses femininos de Leão, Castela e Aragão” – Eduardo Carrero Santamaría (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

The Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) promotes the Conference Cycle Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (Living, reading and praying in Lorvão Abbey (15th-16th centuries)), integrated into the project Books, Rituals and Space in a Cistercian Nunnery. Living, Praying and Reading in Lorvão, 13th-16th centuries (ref. PTDC/ART-HIS/0739/2020), financed by national funding through […]

Cycle of Talks: “Medievalismos e Neomedievalismos” – Session 1

The cycle of conferences on "Medievalismos e Neomedievalismos" (Medievalisms and Neomedievalisms), which takes place during the months of April to June 2022, is organised within the framework of a new seminar on the same theme, which forms part of the Medieval Studies Doctoral Program curriculum (E-learning), coordinated by Universidade Aberta and NOVA University. The cycle […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies: “Marginal Writings: Musical Memories at the Margins of a Thirteenth-century Chansonnier” – Alexandros Hatzikiriakos (University of Harvard)

This session was postponed due to the impossibility of the lecturer for health reasons.   The chansonnier Paris, BnF, f. fr. 844 (generally known as Chansonnier du Roi) is one of the earliest and most important witnesses for late medieval vernacular song in French and Occitan but also for early motets in modal notation. Compiled […]

International Seminar on Medieval Religious History: “Res sacrae. Objets de la devotion dans les sociétés chrétiennes d’Occident de l’Antiquité tardive aux débuts de l’Age modern” – Sofia Boesch Gajano (Centro Europeo di Studi Agiografici)

The Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM-NOVA FCSH), in partnership with the Centre of Religious History Studies (UCP-CEHR), hosts the International Seminar on Medieval Religious History that 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 […]