Researching the Middle Ages VI - Research Projects: realities and possibilities Following the workshops carried out in the five previous editions of "Researching the Middle Ages", this year's meeting was designed to reflect the reality of the growth, although fairly modest, experienced by Medieval Studies research projects. This meeting will bring together researchers and those […]
Session: Missal Acciaiuoli, by Manuel Pedro Ferreira The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum manuscript LA236, also known as the "Missal Acciaiuoli", is a complex codex, covering the readings and prayers appropriate for Mass celebrated throughout the liturgical year. This was commissioned by a member of the powerful Florentine Acciaiuoli family in around the first quarter of the […]
Workshop "When monks used to make books ..." Location: Alcobaça School Centre of the Cistercian School Grouping Coord.: DGPC/Monastery of Alcobaça and IEM NOVA FCSH - Catarina Fernandes Barreira, Conceição Casanova and Catarina Miguel Target Audience: 1st Cycle students.
Professor Chris Wickham is in Lisbon to deliver a lecture entitled "The donkey and the boat: rethinking Mediterranean commerce in the eleventh century", as part of the IEM Conferences series, and also as a result of the Erasmus Exchange Seminar that took place between NOVA FCSH/Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) and the University of Oxford, […]
On 12 March 2019, Professor Chris Wickham will give a lecture and a postgraduate seminar to undergraduate and postgraduate students of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University (NOVA FCSH), respectively on "The Feudal Revolution" and on “A journey by a Flemish abbot to Rome in 1141. Grab this opportunity to listen to […]
The international conference “Small Towns and Environment (from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period)” is taking place in Castelo de Vide (Portugal) between 14 and 16 March 2019. Its organisation results from a joint initiative by the Small Towns in Time Networks, Castelo de Vide Municipality, IEM, CHAM, IHC, and da École des hautes […]
Session: De Consolatione Philosophiae, by José Meirinhos Mainly through the Consolatio Philosophiae, read in Latin or in the numerous translations carried out from the tenth century onwards, Boethius (c. 480-c. 524) exerted an impressive cultural, spiritual and philosophical influence throughout the Middle Ages. Manuscript LA136 in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum bears witness to this influence […]
This seminar represents another in the cycle "História das nobrezas de Antigo Regime: modelos de reprodução social e institucional - o modelo vincular" (History of the Ancien Régime nobility: models of social and institutional reproduction), which correspondingly addresses the models of social and institutional reproduction of the nobility under the Ancien Regime, reflecting on the […]
During the central years of the Middle Ages, there were important political changes that led slam to lose its peninsular hegemony in favour of Christianity. The founding of new governments and the emergence of different identities motivated elites to explore various ways of legitimising their social position within their domains and against closer powers. On […]
During the central years of the Middle Ages, there were important political changes that led slam to lose its peninsular hegemony in favour of Christianity. The founding of new governments and the emergence of different identities motivated elites to explore various ways of legitimising their social position within their domains and against closer powers. On […]
