Calendar
MedCrafts Project Final Congress
The final congress of the MedCrafts project is taking place at the University of Minho on 7, 8 and 9 September. This will feature the presentation of the research results […]
4th Workshop on Juridical Culture: Jurists and the Medieval State. Varieties and Development of a Symbiotic Relationship, 1100-1500
The "4th Workshop on Legal Culture - Jurists and the Medieval State 1000-1500: Varieties and the Development of a Symbiotic Relationship" is taking place at the School of Social Sciences […]
Seminar in Medieval Studies: “Fray Lope de Olmedo y la «Reforma» Monástica en la Orden de San Jerónimo (1373 – 1567)” – María del Pilar Abellan Millán (Universitat de Barcelona)
The Order of Saint Jerome has mainly been studied from an institutionalist and "triumphalist" point of view. The research underlying this speech aims to generate new perspectives, especially in terms […]
I Conference Cycle “Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI) (13th to 16th centuries)”: “O padroado do Mosteiro de Lorvão nas paróquias urbanas de Coimbra: São Bartolomeu e São Pedro de Almedina” – Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos and Luís Miguel Rêpas (CHSC and IEM)
The Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) is staging the "Ciclo de Conferências Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI)" (Living, reading and praying in […]
3rd International Workshop of the IUS ILLUMINATUM Research Team – The Illuminated Legal Manuscript. Research in Progress
To celebrate its fourth year, the IUS ILLUMINATUM Research Workshop will host on 20 September 2022, in collaboration with the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of NOVA FCSH and the […]
International Conference: “Mistérios e segredos dos Cancioneiros: caminhos da poesia, iluminura e escrita nas cantigas medievais galego-portuguesas”
The "Stemma project – From Song to Writing. Material production and paths in Galician-Portuguese lyrical song" sets out to better understand both the parameters of the passage of Iberian troubadour […]
2nd IEM Conference 2022: “Panthers from the Physiologus to Rilke: A Preliminary Literary Typology” – Nigel Harris Prof. Nigel Harris (University of Birmingham)
Professor Nigel Harris of the University of Birmingham will be delivering a lecture on this most fascinating topic. Literary panthers come in all shapes, sizes and colours. Many of them […]
International Congress Cistercian Horizons
Over recent years, the study of the Cistercian scriptoria has produced new knowledge and perspectives. The research Project Cistercian Horizons (PTDC/ART-HIS/29522/2017) seeks to elucidate the case of Portugal and place […]
Autumn School 2022
The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM – NOVA FCSH) and the Municipality of Castelo de Vide are organizing a Fall School for twenty Master’s and PhD students in medieval studies […]
VII International Conference of the Middle Ages “Construction and Reconstruction in the Medieval Urban Europe”
Cities were conspicuous in the Medieval landscape not only for being great concentrations of humanity, but also for their built-up areas. Buildings served various functions: military, religious, political-administrative, economic, and […]
International Conference “Constructing the other and the self. Representations of identity and otherness in the Middle Ages”
The topics of identity and otherness are of the greatest relevance and actuality. To reflect critically and in an interconnected way on both dimensions concerning the context of medieval travel […]