Available on open acess: “A Vida Quotidiana da Cidade na Europa Medieval”

Included in the IEM publications “Coleção Estudos” (“Studies” series), “A Vida Quotidiana da Cidade na Europa Medieval” (“Everyday Life in Medieval Urban Europe”), a book edited by IEM researchers Amélia Aguiar Andrade and Gonçalo Melo Silva, was launched in October.

As a result of a long and fruitful partnership, the editors are pleased to present, with support from the Institute of Medieval Studies and Castelo de Vide Town Council, the sixth volume resulting from the International Conferences on the Middle Ages and the Autumn School of Medieval Studies. The work carried out in these two activities enabled the collation of 26 texts – three resulting from lectures given at the Autumn School – written by a total of 29 researchers from Argentina, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. They all furthermore benefited from the observations and comments made in the debates that took place in each of the different sessions as well as from the meticulous and evaluative views of the evaluators who undertook their peer review. As is to be expected, most of these articles focus on the Iberian kingdoms even while others address more distant geographies, such as the Balkans, Scandinavia, Flanders or Italy. The predominant chronological period corresponds to the late Middle Ages, a choice that once again comes as no surprise in the Peninsular case given the well-known limitations of the documentary sources available for the first medieval centuries.

This work is available via open access on the PURE and RUN platforms.