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- Clarissan Reform, Miraculous Objects, and Shared DevotionsPublication . Cardoso, Paula; Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)The religious landscape of late medieval Portugal was marked by a call to reform the mendicants that strongly impacted female religious communities and opened ways to more severe approaches to professed life, such as those practiced by the Colettine Clarisses. Bound to a life of enclosure and evangelical poverty, Colettine nuns were simultaneously segregated from their urban communities and in need of their support to survive. Focusing on the promotion of sacred objects and of the figure of Colette of Corbie as strategies of legitimization employed by these convents, this chapter aims to analyse how the establishment of shared devotions between the nuns and their urban communities contributed to the acceptance of these communities and, consequently, attracted and maintained lay support of their convents.
- Conjuntos arqueológicos tardoantigos e alto-medievais da cidade do PortoPublication . Veloso, João; Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)Com o presente artigo procuramos dar notícia de alguns dados preliminares que temos recolhido acerca da ocupação suevo-visigótica da cidade do Porto (Portucale), incidindo, concretamente, sobre os seus consumos e relações comerciais. O texto que aqui apresentamos resulta da comparação de dois arqueossítios portuenses em que se preservaram níveis de cronologia suevo-visigótica: a Rua de D. Hugo, nº. 5, que estudámos no âmbito da nossa tese de Mestrado, e o Largo do Colégio, nos. 9-12, que integramos agora na nossa investigação de Doutoramento. Faremos uma apreciação geral do espólio cerâmico mais ilustrativo de cada um dos sítios, bem como uma reflexão acerca de como este espólio contribui para o estudo das relações comerciais da cidade entre princípios do século V e finais do século VI. This paper aims to report some preliminary data recently collected about the Suevic-Visigothic occupation of the city of Porto (PORTUCALE), focusing on its consumption patterns and commercial relations. The text here presented results from the comparison of two archaeological sites in the city, where levels of a Suevic-Visigothic chronology have been preserved: Rua de D. Hugo, nº. 5, which the author studied as part of his Master's thesis, and Largo do Colégio, n os . 9-12, which is framed in the author’s PhD research. After a general appreciation of the most illustrative ceramic artifacts from each of these sites, a reflection on how these artifacts contribute to the study of commercial relations in the city between the beginning of the 5th century and the end of the 6th century will be provided.
- Constructing peasant landscapes in the Early Middle Ages. Reflections on domestic spaces, funerary areas, and productions systems in western IberiaPublication . Prata, Sara; Cuesta-Gomez, Fabian; Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)The post-Roman centuries led to deep changes for peasant communities in the countryside. The past ten years of research on Portuguese inland territories has yielded new insights into this previously elusive period. This paper focuses mainly on archaeological data gathered from Castelo de Vide, a territory of Alto Alentejo (Central Portugal). Our findings combine evidence from different research methods and scales of assessment. These include field-surveys, spatial analysis, excavations, material culture, and radiocarbon dating, along with a critical review of grey literature from previous works in the region. Looking into the contexts of individual settlements allows us to explore social construction and detect patterns for broader socio-economical practices, which will be the focus of this paper.
- The Formation of Medieval Territories in Mountain areas.Publication . Tente, Catarina; de Melo Branco, Daniel; Departamento de História (DH); Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)The research that has been carried out in the Lafões/Caramulo area (central-northern Portugal) has made it possible to acquire new data on the formation of medieval territories in a mountainous area. The present paper uses data from written documentation and archaeological data to make a first approach to the study of the of the formation processes of village territories and the different-scale sociopolitical processes that were behind these processes. The focus of this study are two medieval parishes which occupy the most mountainous areas of the present-day municipality of Vouzela. The available data show significant differences between the two, particularly in the configuration of the settlement and its dynamics over time. While in one the settlement areas are quite stable, the other records changes in the settlement structure, with new foundations and abandonments throughout the Middle Ages. As far as it is possible to understand, these differences are fundamentally correlated with the actors who played in each of these territories. In fact, it was social differences of local scales which were mainly responsible for these differences in the definition of territories, ownership of rural properties, size of plots, settlement patterns and surely socio-economic practices. Micro-scale politics have determined different histories and settlement features.
- Considering peasant agency in the Early Middle AgesPublication . Tente, Catarina; Prata, Sara; Departamento de História (DH); Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)This paper analyses archaeological data on early medieval rural communities through the lens of peasant agency. Over the last 15 years systematic research has been carried out in different territories of the Portuguese inland, mainly in the centre-north of the country. Here we will be focusing on the areas for which we currently have more detailed evidence, Alto Alentejo and Beira Alta, and consider a broad chronological frame, between the 5th and the 11th centuries. However, the information available for the two territories is uneven, and it is not yet possible to offer a continuous chronological sequence in either of these areas. For this reason, we will analyse the available data collectively and from a comparative perspective. In both cases we will start by considering the new rural settlement networks that emerged from the 5th century onwards. Evidence of peasant communities in Alto Alentejo is clearer for the 6th-7th centuries, and in Beira Alta for the 10th-11th. Both are critical moments in the political sphere, coinciding with the emergence and affirmation of new administrative structures, but also necessary power vacuums where local powers emerge. By comparing the material record of peasant groups, we will reassess agricultural production, management of natural resources, artefact production, trade networks, and funerary areas, as arenas to discuss the notion of peasant agency.
- In it are written things necessary and very useful... (Alc. 218).Publication . Fontes, João Luís; Lopes, Paulo Esmeraldo Catarino; Departamento de História (DH); Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)
- Adventus – Cistercians of the Western Edge, Notes on Portuguese OriginsPublication . Wilson, Jonathan; Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)In addressing the problem of Cistercian origins in Portugal, the dearth of surviving documentation relating to the earliest settlements of the order in the region leaves the historical sleuth with little option but to sift through fragmentary information often contained in sources of doubtful provenance. Nevertheless, although thrust into a world of uncertainty, at least one clear constant emerges, the obvious centrality of the mysterious holy man known as João Cirita, who appears to have been instrumental in the establishment of the order in the Iberian Far West. In contrast to some cautiously narrow twentieth century approaches, this paper takes a broad view of the evidential landscape and contemplates the legendary and the mythical alongside the documentary clues to investigate what can be known about this individual whose activities would have such profound impact on Portuguese Ecclesiastical History.
- Jaguars, maidens issuant, counter-erminedPublication . Seixas, Miguel Metelo; Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)
- A group of four African oliphants proclaiming an Iberian royal unionPublication . Afonso, Luís Urbano; Seixas, Miguel Metelo; Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)
- The Study of the Biographical Trajectory of a Portuguese 12th c. Illuminated ManuscriptPublication . Algaff, Shatila; Bottura-Scardina, Silvia; Barreira, Catarina Alexandra Martins Fernandes; Miguel, Catarina; Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM)