The 2nd International Seminar "Architectures of the Soul" aims to promote the scientific study and discussion of architecture associated with spiritual practices centred on the search for the wilderness and the experience of solitude. A multidisciplinary approach will be favoured at the crossroads between different fields of knowledge and perspectives - history, architecture, landscape architecture, […]
Speaker: Etelvina Fernández González In the context of present-day Europe, in which women increasingly occupy a leading role in various fields - such as science, art, literary and political activities -, having achieved progressive levels of independence at all levels, the example of Cristina de Pisano anticipates this situation by several centuries. In this sense, […]
The Conference "D. Lourenço Vicente: Memória(s) e Representações" (Lourenço Vicente Conference: Memory(s) and Representations) completes the itinerary that began around the figure of Archbishop Lourenço Vicente in 2017, completing the study of the itinerary of this prelate from Braga and royal counsellor, with various diversions along this path for which we constituted different memories and […]
The Sea in Religious Imaginary: Cults, Spaces, Representations Throughout history, the oceans and seas have always provoked different reactions in the human imagination. They were environments of mystery, fear and the unknown. Invading peoples arrived, pirates and corsairs, floods and storms, spreading destruction and chaos. Whoever dared challenge the sea faced other dangers, such […]
13th session of the Medieval Studies Seminar
This Conference seeks to provide a forum for scholars from all disciplines who are keen about approaching, discussing and advancing knowledge on the processes, forms and channels through which social communication in Medieval Europe developed. We will analyze the main areas where communication played a central role in the achievement of the most diverse objectives. […]
In the 12th and 13th centuries, with the troubadour poetry and the courtly model of Provençal origin, an imaginary of sentimental and intimate contours developed in France, around the theme of love, which would experience continuity in other European contexts, specifically in Italy. The poetic work of Petrarch (1304-1374), innovatively displaying a classical and medieval […]
On Friday 4th January, the first meeting of the CISTERHOR - Horizontes Cistercienses. Estudar e caracterizar um scriptorium medieval e a sua produção. Alcobaça. Identidades locais e uniformidade litúrgica em diálogo / CISTERHOR - Cistercian Horizons. To study and characterize a medieval scriptorium and its production. Alcobaça. Local identities and liturgical uniformity in dialogue (Ref. […]
Speakers: Maria Alessandra Bilotta and José Domingues Calouste Gulbenkian Museum holds two illuminated fragments and a medieval codex of Ius commune (Common Law). The common law - composed of the Corpus Iuris Civilis (Body of Civil Law), the Corpus Iuris Canonici (Body of Canon Law) and respective legal literature - constituted one of the […]
1a Communication:A música nos fundos e colecções da Torre do Tombo, by Maria de Fátima Ó Ramos (National Archive of Torre do Tombo) A brief journey through a heritage that tells us about contexts, eras, composers and interpreters waiting for their due appreciation. This presentation will be in Portuguese. 2a Communication:Singing with light: revisiting the […]
Researching the Middle Ages VI - Research Projects: realities and possibilities Following the workshops carried out in the five previous editions of "Researching the Middle Ages", this year's meeting was designed to reflect the reality of the growth, although fairly modest, experienced by Medieval Studies research projects. This meeting will bring together researchers and those […]
