The 1st International Seminar “Arquitecturas da Alma: a Construção do Ermo dentro e fora da Cidade” aims to promote the scientific study and discussion of architecture associated with spiritual practices centered on the search for the wilderness and the experience of solitude. It will privilege both a multidisciplinary approach, at the crossroads between different fields […]
The 620 years since the death of D. Lourenço Vicente are the pretext for revisiting the itinerary and figure of this intriguing and energetic Archbishop of Braga. Born in Lourinhã, he was one of the first and most loyal supporters of King D. João I. In times of dynastic change and great political and military […]
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The Institute of Medieval Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon in partnership with the Institut de Recerca Històrica of the Universitat de Girona, together with the research group "TEMPLA - Taller d'Estudis Medievals" and the research project Recercaixa "Cathedral cities: memories, landscapes and identitarian heritage of […]
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 […]