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International Conference “Intervir na Memória. Restauros de época moderna em monumentos funerários medievais (sécs. XV-XX)”

Registrations for the International Conference "Intervir na Memória. Restauros de época moderna em monumentos funerários medievais (sécs. XV-XX)" (Interventions in Memory. Modern Era Restorations of Medieval Funerary Monuments (15th-20th centuries)), taking place at the Faculdade de Belas Arts of Lisbon, from 25 to 26 September 2019, are open.  The Colloquium will focus on interventions made […]

Conference José Medeiros Ferreira 2019 – by Naomi Standen  

This year, the Opening Conference of the PhD in History at NOVA FCSH is organized by IEM, and will be given by Professor Naomi Standen, from the University of Birmingham, with the theme: 'Rescuing global history from the nation: Eastern Eurasia without borders 600-1350'.   AbstractWe are still working out how to do global history, especially […]

Cycle Conference “Da Alquimia às Artes da Cor na Idade Média: Iluminura e Vitral”

“Em demanda da Pintura Medieval Portuguesa”, by Luís Urbano Afonso   This lecture aims to show that the current pre-eminence attributed to painting in the context of plastic arts results from a modern prejudice, not applicable to the Middle Ages, preventing us from seeing, and valuing, other forms of producing two-dimensional images that in that […]

“Iluminar os manuscritos medievais. Da materialidade do códice à leitura”, by Maria Adelaide Miranda, Luís Correia de Sousa and Ana Lemos

A brief history of writing will serve as an introduction to the study of the illuminated manuscript. The passage from the scroll to the codex, with all the transformations that this discovery produced, namely writing on parchment instead of papyrus, opened the way for the creation of illuminations on a stable support. It will be […]

Autumn School 2019

The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM – NOVA FCSH) and the Municipality of Castelo de Vide are organizing a Autumn School for twenty Master’s and PhD students in medieval studies, that will take place during the 8th and the 9th of October in Castelo de Vide. The goal of this initiative is to create a […]

IV International Conference on the Middle Ages: Provisioning Medieval European Town

This year, from October 10th to the 12th, the Institute for Medieval Studies of NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IEM-NOVA FCSH) and the municipality of Castelo de Vide are organizing the IV International Conference on the Middle Ages, under the theme: Provisioning Medieval European Towns.  The meeting will […]

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 […]