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6th Session

The third session of the cycle “Manuscritos de Alcobaça II” will take place on May 11, and will feature lectures by Conceição Casanova (FCT and REQUIMTE NOVA) and by Paulo Catarino Lopes and Catarina Fernandes Barreira, both researchers from the Institute of Medieval Studies of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA […]

In the last decade several lines of research in history and archives have promoted new perspectives on the construction of archives and historical sources. These new currents, in the field of historical archivistics and the epistemology of history, raise the question of the revaluation of family archives, not only as repositories of alternative documentary sources […]

Speaker: Delmira Espada Custódia The Holford Hours, illuminated in the first half of the 16th century (1526), were executed in Flanders by Gerard Horenbout and Simon Bening. They are part of a series of works of great importance, characterized by collaboration between artists of equal merit and by the growing affirmation of the pictorial development […]

7th Session

The fourth session of the cycle “Manuscritos de Alcobaça II” will take place on June 15, and will feature lectures by Saul António Gomes from the Center for History of Society and Culture of the University of Coimbra (CHSC-UC) and Mário Farelo from the Institute of Medieval Studies of the School of Social Sciences and […]

On 21st and 22nd June, Santarém is welcoming the 12th Conference of the Portuguese Branch of the Hispanic Association for Medieval Literature. Nearly twenty national and international specialists will debate the proposed theme: "O Medievalismo no século XXI" (Medievalism in the 21st Century) These specialised scientific meetings have taken place every two years since 1996 […]

Speaker: Ragnhild M. Bø The Book of Hours LA237 was illuminated by the so-called Master of Bedford for Princess Joan of France around 1415. The Book contains 32 full-page miniatures, each surrounded by small records with episodes alluding to the central theme, except for two. These two are inspired by images from Gautier de Coincy's […]

CRIA – the Network Centre for Anthropology Research and the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) are organizing the conference "Representações da infância: dinâmicas e transversalidades" (Representations of Childhood: Dynamics and Transversalities), to be held on 8 June at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University (NOVA FCSH). The concept of child closely relates […]

The 800th anniversary celebrations of the confirmation of the first charter of Lourinhã by King Afonso II are the pretext for revisiting this territory, looked at both in its physical dimensions, very different in medieval times from today, and in the forms of organisation and frameworks of its populations and the powers that ruled and […]

On 30 June, the Institute of Medieval Studies, the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University (IEM-NOVA FCSH) is actively participating in the Heritage Festival 2018, staged annually by the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC), at the National Palace of Ajuda and its surrounding gardens. Between 11am and 5pm, IEM-NOVA FCSH, in cooperation with […]

Speaker: Ana Cristina Lemos Book of Hours from the second half of the 15th century, attributed to Master François, LA147 is said to have belonged to René II de Lorraine, who is represented kneeling before the Virgin and the Child in the illumination that opens the prayer Obsecro te. With our communication, we intend to […]