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The Cançoners DB database gathers the research on Catalan songbooks that our research group has carried out in the last decades, with the idea of systematizing the data on one of the main medieval literary traditions, placed in the context of the written culture of the Crown of Aragon and also of its contacts with […]

The José Mattoso International Seminar 2021 - A História Contemplativa - De regresso a novos caminhos na investigação (Contemplative History - Back to new paths in research) , still in a virtual format, will take place around Contemplative History the latest book by the well-known Medievalist. Adopting a review of this work and essay as […]

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 […]

In this session will be presented the reality of the illumination of the manuscripts of the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X and its weight in the total manuscript production of this work, highlighting the various iconographic types existing in the manuscripts and their relationship with other late medieval legal iconic repertoires. Similarly, the various types […]

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, […]