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Professor Nigel Harris of the University of Birmingham will be delivering a lecture on this most fascinating topic. Literary panthers come in all shapes, sizes and colours. Many of them have been investigated by scholarship, but not in a systematic way that might enable us precisely to trace developments in the understanding of the animal […]

Over recent years, the study of the Cistercian scriptoria has produced new knowledge and perspectives. The research Project Cistercian Horizons (PTDC/ART-HIS/29522/2017) seeks to elucidate the case of Portugal and place it within this European historiographical current through an analysis of the scriptorium of the Abbey of Alcobaça from the end of the 12th to the […]

Cities were conspicuous in the Medieval landscape not only for being great concentrations of humanity, but also for their built-up areas.  Buildings served various functions: military, religious, political-administrative, economic, and residential.  Further, not all cities had the same buildings whilst, from neighbourhood to neighbourhood and from street to street, building characteristics could differ according to […]

The topics of identity and otherness are of the greatest relevance and actuality. To reflect critically and in an interconnected way on both dimensions concerning the context of medieval travel is to bridge a better understanding of the present in all its frailties. Such is the primary objective of the International Conference “Constructing the Other […]

Conference organised within the scope of the PhD Program in Medieval Studies at NOVA FCSH and UAb. The initiative has the support of the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM), CHAM - Humanities Center, Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), NOVA FCSH and FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology.  

The Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) is staging the I Conference Cycle "Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (séculos XIII a XVI)" (Conference Cycle 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 […]

  Carlos Jesús Morán Sánchez gained his doctoral degree in Archaeology from the University of Extremadura. He works as a Technical Expert for the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas at the Mérida Archaeology Institute. His research career has focused on the study of precedents, the beginnings and consolidation of archaeology as a scientific field, especially […]

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The international workshop "Monarchies and Revolution: nineteenth century resiliences and ruptures (Portugal, Italy and Spain)" is the result of a partnership between two Portuguese institutions (IEM - NOVA FCSH) and ICS - UL), one Spanish (Universidad Complutense) and one Italian (Università di Torino). The theme of the workshop follows on from a first scientific meeting, […]

This workshop is the first step in the recent scientific relationship established between NOVA FCSH and the KNIR-Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. In this sense, the lectures will focus on the presentation of different case studies linked to the analysis of the archaeological landscape of different cities and regions of ancient Roman Lusitania. These lectures […]

In this lecture Dr. Tobias Emanuel Capwell discusses this major research effort, tracing its progress, problems, methodology and results, while also considering the wider potential significance of what appears to be a highly specialised area of historical enquiry.  Advancements in our understanding of the iconic armour of the medieval knight are hard won victories. The […]