To fill an essential gap in the curriculum of medieval studies at FCSH, IEM presents the Curricular Unit (CU): Diplomacy in the Middle Ages.
With a topic of enormous relevance (considering the multifaceted phenomenon of migration and international political conflict today), the CU proposes an innovative and current perspective.
In this sense, this training perfectly aligns with one of the core themes of the Institute for Medieval Studies: “People and Knowledge in Motion: Portugal in trans-European Networks.”
Diplomacy in the Middle Ages represents an innovation in FCSH’s academic offering, whose strategic mission is based on high-quality scientific research and an effective transfer of societal knowledge.
Its interdisciplinary dimension is essential since the development activities presuppose associations with disciplines such as Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, and Ethnography.
It also constitutes a valuable complement to the existing CUs: Cultural History and Medieval Mentalities, Spaces, and Powers in the Middle Ages, History of War in the Middle Ages, and History and Civilization of Islam.
In the 2nd Semester of the 2023-2024 academic year, this CU is available to students of all 2nd Cycle courses (Master’s), with an accreditation of 10 ECTS. The workload is 3 (three) hours in a single weekly session.