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. […]
The IEM - Institute of Medieval Studies and the IHC - Institute of Contemporary History, both research units of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University are combining to organise the seminar "Portugal as Brazil's medieval past. The cultural and political contexts of tropical Portuguese medievalism". Bringing together a diverse group of researchers, […]
Speaker: Luís Correia de Sousa It is not overstating that no book had such an impact on the intellectual life of the medieval West as the Bible, having become, by the 13th century, a true best-seller. New communities of readers, the patronage of the aristocracy, and new resources for the interpretation of the texts are […]
The second session of the cycle “Manuscritos de Alcobaça II” will take place on April 20th, and will feature lectures by Jonathan Wilson and Maria João Branco, both researchers from the Institute of Medieval Studies of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University (IEM-NOVA FCSH). 1st Conference:"Alcobaça and the Liturgy of […]
