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Writing, within its communicative function, also constitutes a visual index of artistic styles, and since art is a determining part of culture that shapes both physical and immaterial heritage, through its analysis it is possible to deduce the worldview that governs the historical and social processes of a given context.   Focusing on Arabic writing, after […]

The Second MedCrafts project is taking place on February 6th at Almada Negreiros College (Room 306). The event is restricted to the project's research team.  

The 8th century introduction, via the Middle East, of new foods into the diet of the Islamic West (the al-Andalus and the Maghrib) represents an important point of passage, which also contributed to the technical and agricultural transformations that al-Andalus witnessed between the 9th and 11th centuries. These changes enabled foodstuffs of different origins to […]

In 1888, the heiress of the House of Castelo Melhor married the 3rd Viscount of Várzea. In 1901, both assumed the title of Marquises of Castelo Melhor - she by right, he by marriage. As the palace belonging to these holders in Lisbon, in Passeio Público, had been sold to the Marquis of Foz, the […]