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Seminar Cycle «Tesouros em pergaminho»: Moralia in Job

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 […]

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: “Manuscritos em Diálogo”

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), […]

II Conference Cycle “Manuscritos de Alcobaça – materialidades, temas e problemas”

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 […]

International Seminar: “al-Muwahhidun. El despertar del Califato Almohade”

The Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife (Escuela de la Alhambra), the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía and the Institute of Medieval Studies, the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University (IEM-NOVA FCSH) are organising the "International Seminar: al-Muwahhidūn. El despertar del Califato Almohade" between 12th and 15th March 2018. This initiative, which will […]

Seminar Cycle «Tesouros em pergaminho»: Apocalipse

Speaker: Alicia Miguélez In England in the 13th and 14th centuries, the production of illuminated apocalypses multiplied. This type of codex, accompanied by great cycles of illustrations, represented an unquestionable qualitative leap regarding the stylistic and iconographic possibilities of medieval apocalyptic imagery. Today, these manuscripts are scattered in libraries and collections all over the world. […]