It is impossible to remain indifferent to a historic house. Its architecture marks the landscape of villages, towns, and cities. With greater or lesser grandeur, each house holds a unique story, shared from generation to generation, often kept in secular documents that are now beginning to reveal their secrets. The owners have the difficult task […]
The seminar aims to present unpublished or little known manuscripts, resulting from the writing of the history and memory of a family group that achieved great importance at court and in the kingdom between the 15th and 17th centuries, the Castelo-Branco family. Two of these manuscripts are in private hands and are being recovered for […]
The International Workshop Heraldry in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts is part of the research project ManJusEurIt – European Traveling Legal Manuscripts conducted by Maria Alessandra Bilotta, also linked to activities of the IUS ILLUMINATUM research team scientifically coordinated by the same researcher. The International Workshop is organized by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM-FCSH/NOVA) together with the IUS ILLUMINATUM research team and in partnership with the Portuguese Heraldry Institute […]
Held in Castelo de Vide (Portugal) between 4 and 6 May 2023 the colloquium A Networked urban world: small, medium, and large cities (from de Middle Ages to Contemporary Times). Its organization is the result of a joint initiative by the Network of Small Cities in Time, the Municipality of Castelo de Vide, three research units of NOVA FCSH (Institute […]
Between May 20th and 21st, Salvaterra de Magos will host the "Royal Falconry Seminar: Falconry. Knowledge and practices in the landscape and heritage of Salvaterra de Magos" (Seminário na Falcoaria Real: Falcoaria. Saberes e práticas no quadro paisagístico e patrimonial de Salvaterra de Magos). The charter of Salvaterra de Magos dates from 1295 and the existence of […]
The 2nd 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 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 and organizational […]
The VINCULUM project (ERC CoG. 819734) was invited to participate in the Sustainable Value Creation Summit, at NOVA.SBE, in a session dedicated to the theme “How to create value through History? A past with a future”, organized by Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and moderated by Lisbeth Rodrigues (NOVA.SBE). The session will take place on the 25th of May, at 9:15 am, […]
Taking place on May 29, at 4 pm, via Zoom, the conference addresses issues related to the European economic history of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The focus is on the economic ties resulting from the long tradition and consequent continuity of buying and selling “national” products with a view to the trade and business of […]
On the 1st of June, at 4:00 pm, the IEM conference will take place, with the communication "Fortificación y militarización social. Arqueología de las micropoliticas altomedievales (siglos VIII-X)", presented by Professor Juan Quirós Castillo. Biographical note:Professor of Archeology at the Department of Geography, Prehistory and Archeology at the Universidad del País Vasco, at the Faculty of Letters. […]
On the 22nd of June, at 4:00 pm, will take place the Seminar in Medieval Studies :"¿En busca del Preste Juan? Tradiciones, expectativas y experiencias en la exploración occidental del Atlántico y el África occidental (s. XIV- princ. s. XVI)", by Professor Víctor Muñoz Gómez (Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. University of La Laguna), […]
The exploratory project FALCO - Hypothesising Human-Animal Relations in Medieval Portugal, which began in January 2022 and lasted for a year and a half with a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (EXPL/HAR-HIS/1135/2021), will hold the third and final project seminar next Thursday, June 29th. In the seminar, under the theme "Advances in human-animal relations […]
The International Congress "O Mosteiro de Lorvão no tempo de Catarina de Eça (1471-1521)" will take place at the Monastery of Lorvão (Penacova, Coimbra) on June 29th and 30th. Today we know better the succession of important women who, during the medieval centuries, governed the main and richest Portuguese Cistercian monasteries, with particular focus on […]