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3.ª Sessão

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Marcello Simonetta, Università la Sapienza (Roma), The Medici Archive Project (Florence), The American University (Paris), is the invited speaker of the first conference organized by Maria de Lurdes Rosa under the ERC VINCULUM project. This session will be held in Lisbon, next October 28, at Colégio Almada Negreiros (Room 306), starting at 6 pm and […]

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 […]

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 […]

The program for the conference Crossing the Divide? Experiences of Conversion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era, co-organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies of the University of Évora and the Institute of Medieval Studies of the New University of Lisbon.

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, […]