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Seminar in Medieval Studies: “El corpus manuscrito de las «Siete Partidas» de Alfonso X. Estudio sobre su iluminación” – Jorge Prádanos Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

In this session will be presented the reality of the illumination of the manuscripts of the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X and its weight in the total manuscript production of this work, highlighting the various iconographic types existing in the manuscripts and their relationship with other late medieval legal iconic repertoires. Similarly, the various types […]

IEM’s participation in the Science and Technology Week 2021

IEM is participating in the Science and Technology Week, which is this year taking place between 22nd and 28th November, through two activities: We invite all our readers to check the conditions of participation and join our activities!

VIATOR International Congress – Symposium dedicated to the study of travel, circulation and mobility in the Middle Ages

Often seen as a time of stagnation, isolation and rupture, when the immobility deriving from interruptions to trade along land and sea routes was the key conditioning factor, the Middle Ages has literally been "underestimated" by certain schools of thought that conceive these centuries as a period of generalised regression, something that simply happened in […]

International Congress “Imago, Actum et Verbum. Desafios e interrogações nos Estudos Medievais: um diálogo interdisciplinar entre filologia, filosofia, história, arte e literatura”

On the outset of the of the 21st century, cross-disciplinary studies on the Middle Ages seem to be in need of a careful reconsideration of their nature, scope and aims. This is especially so after the series of “turns” undergone by historiography in the last four decades. Despite their differences, philosophy, history, philology, literary studies and […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies: “O Projeto ERC VINCULUM: realizações e perspectivas após dois anos e meio de trabalho” – ERC Vinculum Project Team

The present session aims at presenting the work carried out by the ERC VINCULUM Project over its first two and a half years, with particular emphasis on the process of constructing, inserting and correcting its Database. About the authors: The VINCULUM project comprises the Principal Investigator Maria de Lurdes Rosa; the Senior Researcher Mário Farelo; […]

2nd IEM 2021 Conference: “Identity, Memory and Ideology in the Middle Ages” – Flocel Sabaté (Universitat de Lleida)

We place the trilogy of identity, memory and ideology at the centre of a project designed to better understand medieval society. We may thus analyse the multiplicity of personal identities, the ways in which these were expressed within particular social structures (such as feudalism), and their evolution into formal expressions of collective identity (municipalities, guilds, […]

Seminar in Medieval Studies – “Cirurgiões medievais portugueses – mitos, preconceitos e realidades” – Cristina Moisão (CHAM – NOVA FCSH)

This event details a study of Portuguese medieval surgeons in the chronological period ranging from the beginning of nationality to the close of the 15th century. Several parameters were studied for 405 individuals, including the geographic distribution around Portugal, socio-religious groups, inclusion in the surrounding society, legislation in force and relations with the royal power, […]

International Seminar of Medieval Religious History: “Le Temple et le culte marial au long du chemin de Saint-Jacques: la commanderie de Villalcázar de Sirga au XIIIe siècle” – Philippe Josserand (Université de Nantes)

The Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM-NOVA FCSH), in partnership with the Centre of Religious History Studies (UCP-CEHR), promotes the International Seminar on Medieval Religious History, which thus resumes, with a new format and scope, the tradition of the previous cycles of the Medieval Religious History Seminar, interrupted in 2013. In 2021/2022, and in coordination with […]

I Conference Cycle “Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI)”: “D. Sancho I, o conflito com os monges de Lorvão e a introdução das monjas cistercienses em Portugal” – Maria João Branco (IEM – NOVA FCSH)

The Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) runs the Conference Cycle "Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI)" (Living, reading and praying in Lorvão Abbey (13th to 16th centuries)), integrated into the project Books, Rituals and Space in a Cistercian Nunnery. Living, Praying and Reading in Lorvão, 13th-16th centuries (ref. […]

International Seminar on Medieval Religious History: “Material Actants of Jerusalem – Pilgrimage in Late Medieval Iberia” – Nicolas Jaspert (Universität Heidelberg)

The Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM-NOVA FCSH), in partnership with the Centre of Religious History Studies (UCP-CEHR), runs the International Seminar on Medieval Religious History, which thus returns with a new format and scope but in the tradition of the previous Medieval Religious History Seminar cycles, interrupted in 2013. In 2021/2022, and in coordination with […]