The IEM is pleased to announce the opening of new Curricular Units available for students enrolled in the 1st (Undergraduate) and 2nd (Master’s) Cycles.

All programs take place between 22nd February and 2nd June.

A Diplomacia na Idade Média (Diplomacy in the Middle Ages)

This program has 5 places available and is open to all Undergraduate and Master’s students. Its main objectives are that students, on completion of the CU, are able to internalise the specific characteristics of diplomatic practices and external relations in the medieval period. In this sense, they should be able to relate the various modalities and aspects that make up diplomacy during the Middle Ages, particularly as regards the kingdom of Portugal. The functions, competences and social backgrounds of the diplomatic agents as well as the norms underpinning their operations and the types of missions they joined or led (when material culture takes on rare importance), should also integrate into the knowledge framework of participating students. Finally, from the study of historical, literary and iconographic sources, they should learn how diplomatic practices then underwent representation.

The lecturer responsible for this Course Unit is Professor Paulo Catarino Lopes.

Governar as cidades medievais Portuguesas (Governing Portuguese medieval cities)

This CU has 20 places and is open to all undergraduate students in the 3rd year of their study plan. Its main objectives are:

  • Acquire knowledge about the institutions and council officials of the medieval Portuguese urban nuclei;
  • Recognise the main concerns and strategies of the county power in the governance of medieval Portuguese towns and cities;
  • Identify the leading actors, spaces and mechanisms related to urban supply;
  • Identify the actors, spaces and mechanisms related to the defence of health and urban stability;
  • Master methodologies for selection and analysis of medieval sources that enable students to proceed with further studies on this period.

The lecturer responsible for this curricular unit is Professor Gonçalo Melo da Silva

Hispânia Medieval (Medieval Hispania)

This CU contains 15 places and is available to all undergraduate students in the 3rd year of their study plan. Its main objectives are:

  • Learning about the dynamics and political, social, economic and cultural transformations of the Hispanic Christian kingdoms;
  • Inserting the particular dynamics of the Hispanic Middle Ages in the global dynamics of the medieval Christian West;
  • Understanding the context, the historiographic concepts and the specific terminology of the Hispanic Middle Ages;
  • Developing student skills in the critical analysis of primary sources (mainly chronological and diplomatic);
  • Identifying the different interpretations, schools and historiographic trends in the processes, problems and historical deviations of the Hispanic Middle Ages.

The lecturers responsible for this curricular unit are Professor Amélia Aguiar Andrade and Professor Gonzalo J. Escudero Manzano.

Further information concerning these Curricular Units is available here.