On September 8 and 9, the University of Évora will host the International Conference “The Art of Renaissance Illuminations – António de Holanda, his Arts and Sciences”. This event takes place within the framework of the project ROADMAP – Research on António de Holanda Miniatures Artistic Production (PTDC/ART-HIS/0985/2021) and will present the main results of […]
Overcoming Illegitimacy: the Material and Symbolic Resources of Dom Jorge, 2nd Duke of Coimbra, and Dom Jaime, 4th Duke of Bragança Abstract In the late Middle Ages, emblems gained prominence as instruments for asserting the power of princes and, at the same time, as visual links with the circles of relatives and courtiers surrounding them. […]
On September 19, 2025, the International Workshop: Methodologies in Comparison, 10 Years Later. The Archaeological Methodology for the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts will take place. This event marks the 10th anniversary of the Workshop The Study of Illuminated Manuscripts and Artefacts in Medieval Archaeology: Methodologies in Comparison. The aim is to demonstrate how archaeological sciences […]
On September 24 at 6:00 p.m., the academic year of the PhD Program in Art History at NOVA FCSH will open with a lecture by Dr. David Felismino (President, ICOM Portugal) entitled Museums and Sustainability: Between Local Challenges and Global Opportunities. The lecture is part of the seminar “In-depth Topics in Art History” and is […]
José Medeiros Ferreira Lecture Inaugural Lecture of the PhD Program in History | Academic Year 2025–2026 On the upcoming 26th at 6 p.m., the PhD program in History at NOVA FCSH will be inaugurated with a lecture by Professor Alejandro García Sanjuán, entitled “La Reconquista en el debate público y académico actual”. The lecture is […]
The NOVA FCSH Institute of Medieval Studies and Castelo de Vide City Council promote an Autumn School aimed at master's and doctorate students in the Middle Ages. In 2025, the Autumn School will occur between September 30th and October 1st. The aim is to create a space for debate and exchange of experiences in which […]
The Institute of Medieval Studies (FCSH; Nova University, Lisbon) and the City Council of Castelo de Vide will host the X International Conference on the Middle Ages, which takes place from 2nd to 4th October 2025 under the theme: "Memory in medieval urban Europe". With a focus on Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Europe, researchers from […]
On October 2, at 10:15 a.m., at the Mouzinho da Silveira Cine-Theatre in Castelo de Vide, the book Urban Societies in Medieval Europe, edited by Amélia Aguiar Andrade and Gonçalo Melo da Silva, will be presented. The presentation will be given by Prof. Hermínia Vilar (University of Évora, CIDEHUS). This session is part of the […]
On October 2, at 10:15 a.m., the Inaugural Lecture of the X International Conference on the Middle Ages will take place at the Mouzinho da Silveira Cine-Theatre in Castelo de Vide. The lecture, entitled “Written Memory in Small Towns in Late Medieval Portugal”, will be presented by Adelaide Millán da Costa. This session marks the […]
Los Espacios de la muerte en la nobleza y su emulación a la corona. La arquitectura funeraria como representación de poder Abstract In the Hispanic world, especially under the Crown of Castile from the Late Middle Ages onward, the great lineages and principal noble houses sought to be buried alongside their families in churches and […]
On October 15th, at 6:00 PM, the launch of the book Heraldry of the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória (Batalha), by Miguel Metelo de Seixas, will take place at the Carmo Archaeological Museum in Lisbon, headquarters of the Portuguese Institute of Heraldry. This book, the third volume in the “Scriptorium – Monastery of Batalha” […]
The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM NOVA/FCSH) and the Network for the Environment in Medieval Usages and Society (NEMUS) are pleased to announce the second edition of the Medieval Hunting Meeting, to be held on 23–24 October 2025. Under the moniker ‘Setting up the Chase: Where and When?’, we seek to explore time and place […]