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The Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM-NOVA FCSH), in partnership with the Centre of Religious History Studies (UCP-CEHR), promotes the International Seminar on Medieval Religious History, which thus resumes, with a new format and scope, the tradition of the previous cycles of the Medieval Religious History Seminar, interrupted in 2013. In the year 2021/2022, and in […]

In this session will be presented the reality of the illumination of the manuscripts of the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X and its weight in the total manuscript production of this work, highlighting the various iconographic types existing in the manuscripts and their relationship with other late medieval legal iconic repertoires. Similarly, the various types […]

Often seen as a time of stagnation, isolation and rupture, when the immobility deriving from interruptions to trade along land and sea routes was the key conditioning factor, the Middle Ages has literally been "underestimated" by certain schools of thought that conceive these centuries as a period of generalised regression, something that simply happened in […]