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The Institute of Medieval Studies, the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University, the Monastery of Batalha and the Estremadura Heritage Centre (CEPAE) are running this course for interpreting guides, entitled “Compreender os espaços monástico-conventuais medievais” (Understanding medieval monastic-conventual spaces).

Its main aim is to provide participants with knowledge that will enable them to interpret and contextualise convents and monasteries, taking into account the diversity of forms of religious life, their spaces and daily life, their relationships with the territory and the powers that be and under whose protection they flourished during the Middle Ages.

This will correspondingly cover aspects related to architecture and art, liturgy and books, religious iconography, heraldry and tumulary. Furthermore, by providing up-to-date summaries on all these themes, this training course makes it uniquely possible to bring together and articulate information which is otherwise generally dispersed and broadly inaccessible to non-specialist audiences.

The sessions and a visit, to be held at the Monastery in Batalha, are spread out over three days and count on the contributions made by several researchers in sharing their knowledge and experience with participants. This course is sponsored by Regional Agency for Tourism Promotion (ARPT), Centro region Portugal.