Calendar
Conference by Chris Wickham: “The Donkey and the Boat: Rethinking Mediterranean Economic Expansion in the Eleventh Century”
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, […]
Chris Wickham is visiting NOVA FCSH to lecture undergraduate classes and give postgraduate seminars
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 […]
2nd Meeting of the International Network for the Study of Small Towns in Time | Small Towns and the Environment (from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period)
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 […]
Seminar cycle «Tesouros em pergaminho»: De Consolatione Philosophiae
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 […]
“Ciclo de História das nobrezas de Antigo Regime: modelos de reprodução social e institucional – o modelo vincular”
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 […]
Cross-Disciplinary Workshop “Legitimação de poderes e identidades na Península (sécs. IX-XII). Métodos e formas de desenvolvimento”
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 […]
Cross-Disciplinary Workshop “Legitimação de poderes e identidades na Península (sécs. IX-XII). Métodos e formas de desenvolvimento”
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 […]
Workshop “Representations of otherness in Iberian worlds”
Org. IEM, IHA and DHA.Location: Tower A, Auditorium 001Speakers: Alicia Miguélez and Nuno Senos
Seminar in Medieval Studies: “Historiography and Ideology in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Manipulating the Middle Ages” – Emir O. Filipović
17th Session of the Medieval Studies Seminar
Seminar Cycle: «Tesouros em Pergaminho» – Esqueletos no armário? A conservação e restauro de manuscritos na encruzilhada do século XXI
The final session in this seminar cycle focuses on the preservation and restoration of medieval illuminations, based on the research coordinated by Maria João Melo and Adelaide Miranda and, more recently, Graça Videira Lopes. A historical, artistic and literary heritage of unparalleled value, the illuminated manuscript is one of the most original artistic and cultural […]