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 […]
The first session of the cycle “Manuscritos de Alcobaça II” will take place on March 9, and will feature lectures by Teresa Lança Ruivo (National Library of Portugal - BNP) and Catarina Fernandes Barreira (Institute of Medieval Studies of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University). 1st Conference:"Recuperação do passado para […]
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 […]
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. […]
