Calendar

On 12th May 2022, at 4 p.m., the 1st IEM Conference 2022 takes place, given by Professor Alberto Ferreiro (University of Seattle), under the title "Mi viaje personal al estudio de la Hispania Lusitania Tardo-Antigua y Medieval”. This occasion also commemorates the integration into the IEM Library of the "Personal Library" of Professor Alberto Ferreiro, […]

The VINCULUM project is presenting the "Vinculum Project Day" initiative on May 14th, between 9.30am and 5.30pm, at the Municipal Archive of Loulé. This initiative aims to communicate the scientific work developed in the project to the community and to promote moments of debate and exchanges of ideas with all interested parties. This first Vinculum […]

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

IEM and LAQV-REQUIMTE present a series of lectures and a workshop dedicated to writing and the art of medieval illumination - "A Escrita e a Arte da Iluminura Medieval - Bíblias Monumentais do mosteiro de Santa Cruz de Coimbra: conhecer, divulgar e conservar" (The Writing and the Art of Medieval Illumination - Monumental Bibles from […]

The cycle of conferences on "Medievalismos e Neomedievalismos" (Medievalisms and Neomedievalisms), which takes place during the months of April to June 2022, is organised within the framework of a new seminar on the same theme, which forms part of the Medieval Studies Doctoral Program curriculum (E-learning), coordinated by Universidade Aberta and NOVA University . The […]

The Think Big About Small Border Towns project is organising the workshop "Descobrir as pequenas vilas de fronteira: fontes para o estudo da paisagem urbana, vínculos e fluxos" (Discovering the small border villages: sources for the study of urban landscapes, links and flows) in Castelo de Vide on 26 May.  This meeting, attended by all […]

The game of dice must have been a frequent pastime in medieval society, as evidenced by the frequent allusions to this game in numerous literary works. I will be interested today in the references to this game in Alphonsine works of very different themes, from the poetry of scorn, to the Cantigas de Santa María, […]

The V MedCrafts Conference is dedicated to the topic "Formas de organização dos mesteres em Portugal na Idade Média e modalidades de estrutura económica" (Means of organising masters in Portugal in the Middle Ages and the prevailing economic structures) and takes place on 31 May and 1 June 2022 at Évora University. Organisation:Arnaldo Sousa Melo […]

The Webinars Cycle “Dialogues of Art, History and Law” is organized by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM - NOVA FCSH), together with the IUS ILLUMINATUM research team (https://iusilluminata.fcsh.unl.pt) and in partnership with the Portuguese Heraldry Institute (IPH), the Capitular Library of Verona and the Capitular Library of Vercelli.  This initiative, organized by a scientific […]

In Portugal, unlike in other countries such as Spain and France, municipal account books have encountered difficulties in establishing themselves as a specific and privileged object of study within medieval urban and economic history. This scenario partly stems from the scarcity of these sources which, however, is not the case in Loulé, a small town […]

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. […]

The cycle of conferences on "Medievalismos e Neomedievalismos" (Medievalisms and Neomedievalisms), which takes place during the months of April to June 2022, is organised within the framework of a new seminar on the same theme, which forms part of the Medieval Studies Doctoral Program curriculum (E-learning), coordinated by Universidade Aberta and NOVA University. The cycle […]