Medievalista Journal

Medievalista is a online journal of medieval studies founded in 2005 by Professor Luís Krus and, since then, it has been published in open acess by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM).

It publishes two issues a year and accepts original, innovative and multidisciplinary works in all scientific areas related to the medieval period. The publication of the journal seeks to create an international space for sharing and debating ideas, open to everyone, from established authors to young researchers.

Current number

N.º 37 (2025)

Published: 2025.01.01 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/medievalista.8310

N.º 37 (2025): Medievalista – Dossier “What survives after death? Parish Communities and Death Commemoration Strategies in the Medieval City – In memoriam Clive Burgess”

Part of the human condition is the awareness of the fundamental paradox of life, marked by fragility and finiteness, but also by an unstoppable force of renewal and overcoming, of the desire to overcome the whirlwind of time and avoid oblivion. Remembering, remembering, celebrating and remembering together have always been ways not only of rescuing the voices and deeds of the past, but also of making them current and meaningful and effective again. That’s why documents became monuments, and certain sites became places of memory. Dates, places, and events were remembered through socially significant gestures and rites, capable of making them current in all their symbolic force. The way we remember, and, above all, how societies remember, combines the ability to store and transmit memory, to evoke and commemorate it, or to fix it in rites, places or narratives.