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, […]
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 […]
About the author:David Porrinas González, with a PhD from Universidad de Extremadura: is a specialist in Medieval History. His doctoral thesis, entitled Guerra y caballería en la plena Edad Media: condicionantes y actitudes bélicas. Castilla y León, siglos XI al XIII, was awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Degree Prize of the Universidad de Extremadura in 2015. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]