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Medievalista - Dossier "Diplomacy of the Crown Princes"
No. 36 (2024)In 2024, the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) celebrated twenty years of existence as a research unit. With some delay, it is true — it was in 2002 that the first FCT evaluation was presented —but perhaps inevitable when studying an era that had a different conception of time but which knew how to appreciate the value of rituals and ceremonies. As a rule, this was done. From the outset, the celebration was a commemoration, a community remembrance of the founders of the Institute and their heritage, accompanied by the evocation of the IEM's journey and the achievements and successes it had achieved in that period. Everything was remembered on the Institute's renewed portal (https://iem.fcsh.unl.pt/20-anos-iem/), using photographs, posters, and testimonies from researchers from other units and institutions, within and outside the country.
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Medievalista 35
No. 35 (2024)Viva a Medievalista! Nem mais, nem menos. Foi assim mesmo, com estas palavras, que o Professor José Mattoso terminou, em Novembro de 2022, uma mensagem que dirigiu à Redacção da revista. Felicitava-a então pela qualidade do nº 32, o último publicado em Julho desse ano, e pelos contributos que a revista do IEM trazia para a renovação da investigação sobre a época medieval. Não era isto uma novidade – em anos anteriores, já fizera comentários elogiosos sobre o rumo da revista e do instituto —, mas era por certo a primeira vez que se manifestava com tal entusiasmo, atitude mais rara em quem cultivava a contenção dos gestos e a moderação. Havia talvez boas razões para tanto, das mais recentes às mais antigas.
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Medievalista 34 - Dossier "Medieval Chronicles"
No. 34 (2023)Vem a lume um novo número da Medievalista, numa data em que, encerrado o ano lectivo, se começam a fazer planos para um tempo de descanso, de encontros e de maiores demoras na fruição das coisas e, para muitos, na visitação de livros, ensaios ou mesmo textos mais breves que ficaram em lista de espera por causa das urgências da vida académica e profissional. São por vezes textos mais antigos, familiares, que agora se revisitam, como num diálogo com autores, personagens e lugares, que de algum modo se tornaram próximos, quase fazendo parte de quem os leu.
Em certa medida, é também esta a aproximação que se propõe em muitos dos artigos reunidos neste número, aplicada a textos e autores de geografias e de cronologias diversas, que procuraram construir uma determinada memória do passado, uma narrativa dos acontecimentos tornados mais significativos pela situação vivida por quem os organizou e redigiu, ou pelas instituições em que estes se inseriam. Longe da ingenuidade positivista que neles procurava sobretudo a identificação dos factos que, depois de situados no tempo e numa sequência de causa-efeito, permitiam uma reconstituição objectiva do passado, do que efectivamente se passou, a investigação actual, aprofundando os diálogos com outras disciplinas, da literatura e da filologia aos estudos culturais, veio mostrar a complexidade desses processos de construção da memória do passado. Em particular, a necessidade de os ler e interpretar à luz dos respectivos contextos de produção, das agendas de cada autor, mas também das múltiplas intertextualidades a que muitas vezes apelam, ou nas quais se suportam e se legitimam. Como se esta arqueologia dos textos não dispensasse a recuperação da história destes, nem dos autores por detrás deles…
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N.º 33 (2023): Medievalista - Dossier “O Castelo de Belvoir e a arquitectura fortificada da Ordem militar de São João”
No. 33 (2023)This Medievalista remembers Ana Cristina Lemos, another young researcher from the Institute for Medieval Studies who died prematurely. A specialist in the study of illuminations and a pioneer in research on color, she was responsible for the analysis of the Livro de Horas de D. Duarte, and, above all, for the discovery and appreciation of the collection of the Livros de Horas of Palácio de Mafra. As the texts published below, which pay a last and moving tribute to her, remind us, Ana Lemos was more than a competent researcher. She was not only a teacher attentive to the integral formation of her students, but also a committed citizen, with a life of militancy for civic, artistic, and cultural causes. In her own way, she did justice to the old lesson of Marc Bloch, who advised historian apprentices to live the life of their time in order to understand and decipher the remains of the lives of the past. Both for making history and for making it happen every day, it was almost inevitable that Ana Lemos would leave a vivid impression on the lives and memories of her colleagues, friends, and teachers. As do the colors she loved so much.
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N.º 32 (2022): Medievalista
No. 32 (2022)Medievalista has long sought to establish itself as a journal of reference in the field of medieval studies. With the regular publication of two issues per year, always free of charge and without any costs for authors and readers, it is invested in the creation of an international platform for the dissemination, share and debate of ideas and perspectives. Through the publication of innovative studies, it aims to cross different disciplinary areas and transpose the most diverse historiographical traditions in order to bring together the distinct geographies of study and research in medieval studies. This has been Medievalista's vocation in recent years, in a drive to revitalize the frontiers of knowledge and disciplines in the best way possible, an aspect that is, by the way, a common heritage of the Institute of Medieval Studies.
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Medievalista - "Peninsular Exchanges" Thematic Dossier
No. 31 (2022)This issue of Medievalista features an interesting essay on the Contemplative History of José Mattoso. It also includes a very significant number of texts, initiatives and ongoing research of different types and origins, each of them a testimony of the different ways of making and communicating science in the field of Medieval Studies. With them, the journal keeps on consolidating its presence as a space for diffusion, debate and sharing of knowledge, doubts and questions, in an open access platform, free of any charges for either readers or researchers. As always have been done at Medievalista and will always be done in the future.
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Medievalista - "From the East to the West: The Military Orders" Thematic Dossier
No. 30 (2021)This edition opens with yet another note of regret, motivated by the disappearance of three illustrious researchers: José Marques, Filomena Barros and Helena Avelar: three names who leave a very significant legacy in several fields, from the history of the Church and ecclesiastical institutions to ethnic-religious minorities and the complex study of their relations with the Christian majority, or even astrology and its important role in the framework of medieval worldview and scientific knowledge.The body of this issue is formed by a thematic dossier, coordinated by Luís Filipe Oliveira and Gregory Leighton, on the world of military orders. The remaining articles, reviews, thesis presentations and news items show and extend the diversity and plurality of themes and perspectives, as well as attest to the vitality and resilience of medieval studies in times of pandemic.
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Medievalista - "The Medieval Bestiary" Monograph
No. 29 (2021)This issue opens with a note of regret, as Peter Linehan passed away on July 9, 2020. The body of this issue is formed by a monograph on the Medieval Bestiary, coordinated by Adelaide Miranda and Pedro Chambel. Some of the texts are written by renowned authors, but many others belong to younger researchers, from different countries and other historiographies. The fixed sections of the review share the same diversity of origins, themes and perspectives. Through them, we try to set forth the resilience and creativity of the medieval studies in pandemic times, as well as the possibility of converting the current difficulties into an opportunity for greater sharing and debate.
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Medievalista 28
No. 28 (2020)This issue of Medievalista brings some news. The most decisive ones were the simplification of its title - Medievalista on-line became Medievalista -, the adoption of a new management and editing platform and another renewal of the graphics in which the journal presents itself. Without abandoning the legacy of the past, particularly the openness to researchers from other languages and historiographies, the current issue integrates again a thematic dossier on the role of ecclesiastics in the construction of medieval monarchies. It also has three other articles on different topics from authors outside the peninsula, in addition to the usual headings, such as news, reviews and presentations, with the aim of a more comprehensive and systematic character, which will be done from now on.
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Medievalista 27
No. 27 (2020)In the previous issue of Medievalista, published on the 1st of July 2019, we have mentioned in the Editorial that the announcement of the results of the evaluation process of the Portuguese Research Units by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) would soon be published. For what concerns the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM), the work carried out during 2014-2017 and the Strategic Project proposed for 2019-2022 deserved the classification of "Excellent". This is a result that honours the IEM, its Direction, and all those who develop research in it. Their joint efforts and the quality of their initiatives and research are thus recognised. However, this is also a factor of increased responsibility for our Institute, and for each and every one of its members. The increase in public funding due to the change from the previous classification ("Very good") to the one now assigned, despite not allowing for extravagances, will enable some relief from past constraints, both in fundamental research and, for example, in the functioning of our journal.
