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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 […]

In 1888, the heiress of the House of Castelo Melhor married the 3rd Viscount of Várzea. In 1901, both assumed the title of Marquises of Castelo Melhor - she by right, he by marriage. As the palace belonging to these holders in Lisbon, in Passeio Público, had been sold to the Marquis of Foz, the […]

The aim of this conference is to identify and list the Muslim mystics (Sufis) known to be present in Ġarb al-Andalus between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, detailing their social and cultural origins, their journeys, experiences and relationships with the different political, military and legal powers in al-Andalus over these centuries. The time period under […]

The Vinum vita est - CULTURAS DA VINHA E DO VINHO: ENTRE O MEDITERRÂNEO E O ATLÂNTICO (Vinum vita est - Cultures of vines and wine: between the mediterranean and the Atlantic) arises from the interest shown by the municipality of Madalena, on the island of Pico, in promoting reflection on the theme of vineyards […]

NOVA FCSH's IEM and UÉ's CIDEHUS are organizing, with the support of UAb, the Webinar and Asynchronous Seminar - The political society of cities in the Lower Middle Ages: trades, mobility and power relations ("A sociedade política das cidades da Península ibérica na Baixa Idade Média: ofícios, mobilidade social e relações de poder"). Initially planned […]

This event provides insights into the research tools, online and with free access, about the work of Fernão Lopes. The presentation takes us through the history, virtualities and practical features of the site at a time when it is integrating the set of digital research tools already made available by the IEM. Work began on […]

The activity "MedCrafts - Os mesteres na cidade medieval portuguesa" (MedCrafts - Craftsmanship in Portuguese medieval cities) is jointly organised by the Centre for the History of Society and Culture, of the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts, the University of Coimbra and the research project MEDCRAFTS - The regulation of craftsmanship in […]