The attraction that cities arouse is not only a contemporary phenomenon. People of all eras have been fascinated by cities and, as a result, have seen them as imagined places concentrating virtues and vices and simultaneously associating them with the presence of power. The walls, the fortresses, the palaces, alongside the streets and squares, endow […]
The international conference "Pequenas cidades e coesão territorial na Europa do Sul e no espaço atlântico (Idade Média – Tempos atuais)" (Small towns and territorial cohesion in Southern Europe and the Atlantic area (Middle Ages - Current times) will be held in Madrid, at Casa de Velázquez, on 18 and 19 January 2018. This initiative […]
The concept of "cohesion" has two complementary meanings: understood in the sense of a unifying force, the term emphasizes the unifying process (for example, a mechanic, a cohesive approach); in the sense of a resultant character, cohesion is, in French, almost synonymous with "coherence" and applies to a whole whose parts are united, linked together […]
Speaker: João Carvalho Dias The collection of European illuminated books assembled by Calouste S. Gulbenkian consists of twenty-four manuscript books, one incunabulum, and eleven loose folios, produced between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries in the main European centers, in particular France. It is a diversified set that includes biblical, liturgical, and devotional texts, in which […]
The seminar cycle «Tesouros em Pergaminho – A coleção de manuscritos iluminados ocidentais de Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian» (Treasures in Parchment - the Western Illuminated Manuscript Collection of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian) results from a partnership between the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the Institute of Medieval Studies, and aims to showcase the excellence of the codices and […]
Speakers: Adelaide Miranda and Luís Correia de Sousa The Moralia in Job by Gregory the Great was one of the most widely copied biblical commentaries in the Middle Ages. It is an exegetical work on the Book of Job, offered to Leander of Seville in 583. The fragments M79A and M79B kept at the Calouste […]
Jornada de Filosofia e História
In February, there is the launch of a new seminar cycle jointly organised by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) and the Centre for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM), both research units of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University (NOVA FCSH), entitled: "Seminário de Investigação Interdisciplinar" (Interdisciplinary Research Seminar), […]
"Desenhar a eternidade: cenografias funerárias na Ibéria Medieval" - Registration open
Promoted by the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage/ Monastery of Alcobaça in partnership with the Institute of Medieval Studies, the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University, in the context of effectively achieving the strategic goal of positioning the Monastery of Alcobaça as a benchmark reference for the study and dissemination of the history and […]
