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Conference and book launch: Livro Vermelho – História de uma Cor

No color compares to red; It is the archetypal color, the first to be dominated and reproduced by humanity in wall paintings and body adornments. Linked to fire and blood since ancient times, red unfolds in a particularly fruitful and ambivalent chromatic labyrinth: the color of the Grail and love in chivalric romances, the color […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies: “Judaica Provincialia minima. About the (probable) anti-Judaism of a Provençal troubadour poem (Guillem Godi, “Si-l gen cors d’estieu es remas”: BdT 219.1)” – Fabio Barberini

Although contemporary with the great development of Judaism in southern France, the poetry of the Provençal troubadours (12th-14th centuries) does not seem to denounce particularly relevant points of contact with the Hebrew culture of the time. However, a recent contribution has been interpreted as anti-Jewish, in the only preserved poem by the otherwise unknown troubadour […]

Conference “Do canto à escrita: o Cancioneiro da Ajuda e os seus poetas”

The Cancioneiro da Ajuda is a precious manuscript that collects some of the songs of the Galician-Portuguese troubadours. It is precious as a codex, with its rich (albeit incomplete) illuminations, and precious also because it is the only surviving songbook whose production is contemporary with the troubadours themselves (late 13th or early 14th century). In […]

V International Conference “Medieval Europe in Motion” – Materialities and Devotion (5th-15th centuries)

The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. This has enabled a more cohesive reading of the way in which the medieval Man related to his material environment, manipulating, adapting and transforming it, of the uses given to the objects he produced, the meanings attributed, […]

Workshop “Poderes “de” y “en” la ciudad: Imaginarios, representaciones, realidad”

This doctoral workshop focuses on the various internal and external powers at work in the medieval city. The presence of monarchs, nobles, ecclesiastics, merchants and other agents and institutions, such as the university, transformed the urban space and offered opportunities for political, institutional and cultural dialogue, in which all the elements of the kingdom's political […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies: «Un proyecto de autoridad espiritual femenina: beatas y monjas con liderazgo en el Medievo castellano» – Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida

The project La conformación de la autoridad espiritual femenina en Castilla aims to analyze the emergence of female authority in the environment of Castilian convents and "beaterios", as well as in its relationship with the court space, from the early fifteenth century to the mid-sixteenth century. The purpose is to investigate the ways in which […]

International Congress “NO MEIO. Recriar a Idade Média na cultura popular”

Highlighting the continuous dialogue between the Middle Ages and the post-medieval world, In the Middle is an international interdisciplinary conference that seeks to explore the ways, methods and motivations in which the medieval period has been imagined, evoked, re-lived, and refashioned in contemporary popular culture.  Hosted by the Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM-NOVA FCSH), the conference […]