Speaker: Horácio Peixeiro LA222, known as the Gradual of Admont, is a complex codex, executed for the Austrian Benedictine monastery from which it takes its name in around the third quarter of the 13th century, probably by a follower of the Paduan master Giovanni Gaibana. The first part contains the gradual, followed by the sacramentary […]
Communication:"Fontes do canto sacro do Leste: Diálogos entre manuscritos e tradições", by Ivan Moody (CESEM-NOVA FCSH) and Svetlana Poliakova (CESEM-NOVA FCSH) This open class provides basic information about liturgy and music in the Christian East. Besides an analysis of the most important characteristics of the Orthodox rite, we also examine some local traditions, such as […]
The final session in the second cycle of “Manuscritos de Alcobaça II – materialidades, temas e problemas” (Manuscripts of Alcobaça - materialities, topics and problems) Conferences takes place on the 29th September and features a conference by Aires Augusto Nascimento, Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Letters, the University of Lisbon (FL-UL), who is also […]
The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM-NOVA FCSH) and the Municipality of Castelo de Vide are organizing a Fall School aimed at Master’s and PhD students in medieval studies, that will take place during the 9th and the 10th of October in Castelo de Vide. The goal of this initiative is to create a place for […]
Between 11 and 13 October the III International Conferences on the Middle Ages is taking place. Resuming this discussion forum on the great themes and problems of the Middle Ages, this year the Conference is dedicated to the theme "Inclusion and exclusion in medieval urban Europe". Several specialists of different nationalities and from various scientific […]
Speaker: Paula Cardoso and Catarina Tibúrcio Hercules I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Módena between 1471 and 1505, made a decisive contribution to Ferrara's prosperity. His patronage of the arts, an activity he greatly developed, was a fundamental part of his strategy of political affirmation through strengthening the cultural identity. One of the luxurious manuscripts […]
Communication:Imperial papyri and Byzantine manuscripts: the (dis)continuity of Greek mythography, by Nereida Villagra (CEC-FLUL) Already in the 19th century, Johannes Panzer had hypothesised that part of the mythographic accounts preserved on Homer in the minor scholia derived from a mythographic commentary, the so-called "Mythographus Homericus". In the 20th century, the discovery and publication of several […]
The Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe, 1200-1600 project, run by Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit Leiden) and funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), sets out to study the various forms of maritime conflict resolution in Medieval Europe with the aim of contributing to answering roughly four questions: What role did […]
