Course “Introdução à Escrita árabe – Valores Instrumentais e Estéticos”
Professors: António Rei (IEM-NOVA FCSH research) and Marta Pérez Castro (Universidad de Sevilla and IEM-NOVA FCSH collaborateur) More information: NOVA FCSH
Professors: António Rei (IEM-NOVA FCSH research) and Marta Pérez Castro (Universidad de Sevilla and IEM-NOVA FCSH collaborateur) More information: NOVA FCSH
The first manifestations of literary production in Portuguese correspond to texts in verse, generally composed by educated poets - troubadours - who lived in various royal and lordly courts of the Iberian Peninsula, particularly in the Northwest. The songbook compositions - cantigas -, which certainly circulated in loose form, were preserved through poetry books - […]
Writing, within its communicative function, also constitutes a visual index of artistic styles, and since art is a determining part of culture that shapes both physical and immaterial heritage, through its analysis it is possible to deduce the worldview that governs the historical and social processes of a given context. Focusing on Arabic writing, after […]
Coord.: José Augusto Sottomayor-Pizarro (FLUP-CEPESE) and Miguel Aguiar (CEPESE) Co-org.: Seminário Medieval de Literatura, Pensamento e Sociedade do Instituto de Filosofia da UP, CEPESE, IEM NOVA-FCSH.
The Second MedCrafts project is taking place on February 6th at Almada Negreiros College (Room 306). The event is restricted to the project's research team.
The 8th century introduction, via the Middle East, of new foods into the diet of the Islamic West (the al-Andalus and the Maghrib) represents an important point of passage, which also contributed to the technical and agricultural transformations that al-Andalus witnessed between the 9th and 11th centuries. These changes enabled foodstuffs of different origins to […]
Open class with the participation of Professor Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo.
In 1888, the heiress of the House of Castelo Melhor married the 3rd Viscount of Várzea. In 1901, both assumed the title of Marquises of Castelo Melhor - she by right, he by marriage. As the palace belonging to these holders in Lisbon, in Passeio Público, had been sold to the Marquis of Foz, the […]
The meeting of the External Scientific Committee for Monitoring the Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM) will take place on February 21st at the Campus de Campolide, Colégio Almada Negreiros, room A13, floor -1. This is a key meeting in the critical evaluation of the IEM's activities and progress, as well as of the proposals for […]
The aim of this conference is to identify and list the Muslim mystics (Sufis) known to be present in Ġarb al-Andalus between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, detailing their social and cultural origins, their journeys, experiences and relationships with the different political, military and legal powers in al-Andalus over these centuries. The time period under […]
The Vinum vita est - CULTURAS DA VINHA E DO VINHO: ENTRE O MEDITERRÂNEO E O ATLÂNTICO (Vinum vita est - Cultures of vines and wine: between the mediterranean and the Atlantic) arises from the interest shown by the municipality of Madalena, on the island of Pico, in promoting reflection on the theme of vineyards […]
NOVA FCSH's IEM and UÉ's CIDEHUS are organizing, with the support of UAb, the Webinar and Asynchronous Seminar - The political society of cities in the Lower Middle Ages: trades, mobility and power relations ("A sociedade política das cidades da Península ibérica na Baixa Idade Média: ofícios, mobilidade social e relações de poder"). Initially planned […]