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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 […]

From words to artwork: contributions to a new perspective on stained glass art, by Márcia Vilarigues (FCT NOVA) We intend to set out the path that leads to the creation of new knowledge based on the connections established between historical documentary information on the production of glass and stained glass and the historical material testimonies […]

At one point in his Traité dês seigneuries (1608), Charles Loyseau states the following about the historical importance of the Parlement de Paris to preserving the unity of the French crown: 'It must be acknowledged that it was the Parlement that prevented us from being divided and dismembered in France as in Italy and Germany […]

The third and last session of the IEM 2019 Conference Cycle takes place on 4 December, a regular initiative that invites internationally renowned specialists to constitute privileged moments of contact, learning and scientific interaction with outstanding contemporary researchers. This conference is given by Professor Pascoal Martínez Sopena, speaking on: "La conquista de Antequera (1410). Reflexiones […]

This project consists of carrying out a diachronic analysis of the rural territory of the municipality of Castelo de Vide with a view to creating a New Archaeological Charter. It is a project to be carried out by researchers from the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM - NOVA FCSH), in collaboration with the Castelo de […]

The first manifestations of literary production in Portuguese correspond to texts in verse, generally composed by educated poets - troubadours - who lived in various royal and lordly courts of the Iberian Peninsula, particularly in the Northwest. The songbook compositions - cantigas -, which certainly circulated in loose form, were preserved through poetry books - […]

Writing, within its communicative function, also constitutes a visual index of artistic styles, and since art is a determining part of culture that shapes both physical and immaterial heritage, through its analysis it is possible to deduce the worldview that governs the historical and social processes of a given context.   Focusing on Arabic writing, after […]

  Coord.: José Augusto Sottomayor-Pizarro (FLUP-CEPESE) and Miguel Aguiar (CEPESE)  Co-org.: Seminário Medieval de Literatura, Pensamento e Sociedade do Instituto de Filosofia da UP, CEPESE, IEM NOVA-FCSH. 

The Second MedCrafts project is taking place on February 6th at Almada Negreiros College (Room 306). The event is restricted to the project's research team.  

The 8th century introduction, via the Middle East, of new foods into the diet of the Islamic West (the al-Andalus and the Maghrib) represents an important point of passage, which also contributed to the technical and agricultural transformations that al-Andalus witnessed between the 9th and 11th centuries. These changes enabled foodstuffs of different origins to […]