“Em demanda da Pintura Medieval Portuguesa”, by Luís Urbano Afonso This lecture aims to show that the current pre-eminence attributed to painting in the context of plastic arts results from a modern prejudice, not applicable to the Middle Ages, preventing us from seeing, and valuing, other forms of producing two-dimensional images that in that […]
A brief history of writing will serve as an introduction to the study of the illuminated manuscript. The passage from the scroll to the codex, with all the transformations that this discovery produced, namely writing on parchment instead of papyrus, opened the way for the creation of illuminations on a stable support. It will be […]
The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM – NOVA FCSH) and the Municipality of Castelo de Vide are organizing a Autumn School for twenty Master’s and PhD students in medieval studies, that will take place during the 8th and the 9th of October in Castelo de Vide. The goal of this initiative is to create a […]
This year, from October 10th to the 12th, the Institute for Medieval Studies of NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IEM-NOVA FCSH) and the municipality of Castelo de Vide are organizing the IV International Conference on the Middle Ages, under the theme: Provisioning Medieval European Towns. The meeting will […]
No color compares to red; It is the archetypal color, the first to be dominated and reproduced by humanity in wall paintings and body adornments. Linked to fire and blood since ancient times, red unfolds in a particularly fruitful and ambivalent chromatic labyrinth: the color of the Grail and love in chivalric romances, the color […]
Marcello Simonetta, Università la Sapienza (Roma), The Medici Archive Project (Florence), The American University (Paris), is the invited speaker of the first conference organized by Maria de Lurdes Rosa under the ERC VINCULUM project. This session will be held in Lisbon, next October 28, at Colégio Almada Negreiros (Room 306), starting at 6 pm and […]
Although contemporary with the great development of Judaism in southern France, the poetry of the Provençal troubadours (12th-14th centuries) does not seem to denounce particularly relevant points of contact with the Hebrew culture of the time. However, a recent contribution has been interpreted as anti-Jewish, in the only preserved poem by the otherwise unknown troubadour […]