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The religious component is fundamental in the creation and establishment of the Almohad Caliphate (12th-13th centuries), due to its origin from a religious movement. In this conference we will focus on the importance of religiosity in the historical and cultural construction of the Almohad Caliphate. The central objective is therefore related to an essential question: […]

The program for the next “International Conference, Medieval Europe in Motion IV - The Middle Ages, A Global Context?”, organized by the Instituto for Medieval Studies, that will be held in Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal - 13-15 December 2017) is now available. The Congress will feature some of the best renowned specialists in their […]

Integrated into the intensive week of the first edition of the PhD in Medieval Studies in an e-learning regime (Doctoral Retreat), offered jointly by NOVA FCSH and Universidade Aberta, there are two free entrance initiatives open to the general public taking place between 8th and 12th January: The Medieval Studies Doctoral Degree Cycle of Conferences […]

Integrated into the intensive week of the first edition of the PhD in Medieval Studies in an e-learning regime (Doctoral Retreat), run jointly by NOVA FCSH and Universidade Aberta, two initiatives open to the general public and with free entrance are taking place from 8 to 12 January: the PhD in Medieval Studies Conference Cycle […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies (SEM)

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]