Thesis Chapters by Diana Martins
This dissertation, which benefits from the Merit Scholarship IEM/EGEAC, intents
to study the me... more This dissertation, which benefits from the Merit Scholarship IEM/EGEAC, intents
to study the medieval Royal Palace of Alcáçova, the prime residence of the medieval
kings in Lisbon, in the context of the construction of the Royal Palace of Ribeira. This
study is based on a book of building accounts produced between 1507 and 1513.
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Call for papers by Diana Martins
Extended Deadline Until 20th June 2022
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Institute of Medieval Studies. FCSH–NOVA University of Lisbon
Lisbon, 28 November-1 December 2022
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Depending on where one would stand in Europe in the Middle Ages, the sea could either be the cent... more Depending on where one would stand in Europe in the Middle Ages, the sea could either be the centre of the known world or its ultimate edge. This mixed potential has always drawn humans into the big unknown, allowing them to use the sea to catch fish, to sail towards distant lands for reasons of faith and trade, to establish contacts with civilisations of different creeds, to wage wars for political and economic domination, and inspired them to write poetry and dream about the world beyond. All this is reflected in the abundant researches from Archaeology, Art History, History, Literature, and other disciplines that, in the past decades, have investigated fisheries and natural resources, overseas trade and commercial institutions, maritime power and socioeconomic conflict management, religious migrations, among other topics.
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The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inte... more The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inter-and multidisciplinary approach. This has enabled a more cohesive reading of the way in which the medieval Man related to his material environment, manipulating, adapting and transforming it, of the uses given to the objects he produced, the meanings attributed, how he interacted with them in cognitive and affective terms. Summoning this dimension in the relationship with religion, devotional practices, sensibilities and representations, carries a new set of questions and necessarily calls for different knowledge in order to deepen understanding and the interpretation of the relationship between medieval religiosity and their material translations. From the images carved and painted to the buildings edified, from liturgical objects to reliquaries and tombs, from books to personal objects of piety, from temples to the inscription of the various forms of religious life, there are many domains where the relation between materiality and devotion can be a prospect and a problem. It intersects the material, functional, performative and aesthetic dimensions with the different readings it calls for, the cognitive and emotional apprehensions, the representations (erudite and popular) it associates with, the practices that it sustains, the memories that polarize and legitimize, the powers that were affirmed through it. It discloses the diversity of variants such as wealth and social position, more or less literate training, and gender differences. The colloquium thus aims to be a broad space for debate, both in the plurality of knowledge and in the diversity of sources, historical, geographical and religious contexts (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and other), and in analytical perspectives.
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The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inte... more The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. This has enabled a more cohesive reading of the way in which the medieval Man related to his material environment, manipulating, adapting and transforming it, of the uses given to the objects he produced, the meanings attributed, how he interacted with them in cognitive and affective terms.
Summoning this dimension in the relationship with religion, devotional practices, sensibilities and representations, carries a new set of questions and necessarily calls for different knowledge in order to deepen understanding and the interpretation of the relationship between medieval religiosity and their material translations. From the images carved and painted to the buildings edified, from liturgical objects to reliquaries and tombs, from books to personal objects of piety, from temples to the inscription of the various forms of religious life, there are many domains where the relation between materiality and devotion can be a prospect and a problem. It intersects the material, functional, performative and aesthetic dimensions with the different readings it calls for, the cognitive and emotional apprehensions, the representations (erudite and popular) it associates with, the practices that it sustains, the memories that polarize and legitimize, the powers that were affirmed through it. It discloses the diversity of variants such as wealth and social position, more or less literate training, and gender differences.
The colloquium thus aims to be a broad space for debate, both in the plurality of knowledge and in the diversity of sources, historical, geographical and religious contexts (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and other), and in analytical perspectives.
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Conference Presentations by Diana Martins
Research in Medieval Studies (RiMS), 2023
Presentation made in the Research in Medieval Studies (RiMS) 2023: Domestic interiors and househo... more Presentation made in the Research in Medieval Studies (RiMS) 2023: Domestic interiors and household consumption in Europe, 1000-1500, which took place in Braga, on the importance of hunting for the affirmation of royal power and the way in which the royal household served such purpose.
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Paper presented at the IMC 2023: Networks in the session 718 - Networking Religion and Diplomacy ... more Paper presented at the IMC 2023: Networks in the session 718 - Networking Religion and Diplomacy in Medieval Portugal, organized by Paulo Catarino Lopes e João Luís Inglês Fontes.
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FALCO CLOSING MEETING: Advances in human-animal relations in medieval Portugal, 2023
Presentation made at the FALCO CLOSING MEETING: Advances in human-animal relations in medieval Po... more Presentation made at the FALCO CLOSING MEETING: Advances in human-animal relations in medieval Portugal.
Lisboa, 29 june 2023
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Col·loqui internacional «Cantar quer’eu dos d’Aragon e dos da Catalunha»
La Corona d’Aragó: cruïl... more Col·loqui internacional «Cantar quer’eu dos d’Aragon e dos da Catalunha»
La Corona d’Aragó: cruïlla de cultures. (Girona, 14-16 de juny de 2023)
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Presentation on the importance of the use of "Diplomatic Correspondence and Documentation" for th... more Presentation on the importance of the use of "Diplomatic Correspondence and Documentation" for the study of Portuguese medieval Falconry. Activity within the FALCO project.
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IMC 2022, 2022
Title changed to: Against those borders: The 1312 contestation of the Treaty of Alcañices. Presen... more Title changed to: Against those borders: The 1312 contestation of the Treaty of Alcañices. Presented at IMC 2022
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Communication presented at the International Congress "VIATOR: Viagens e viajantes medievais — Si... more Communication presented at the International Congress "VIATOR: Viagens e viajantes medievais — Simpósio dedicado ao estudo da viagem, circulação e mobilidade na Idade Média" (November 2021).
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Communication présente dans la Journées doctorales internationales du CESCM "L’absence au Moyen Âge"
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Communication Presented at the MEMSA - Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries II (online).
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Presented at the IMC 2021 — Session 313 "Climate and Travel in the Middle Ages" (Monday 5 July 20... more Presented at the IMC 2021 — Session 313 "Climate and Travel in the Middle Ages" (Monday 5 July 2021: 16.30-18.00). Session organised by Paulo Catarino Lopes and sponsored by the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
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Communication presented during the Online Congress "Generosity and Avarice in Medieval Europe" or... more Communication presented during the Online Congress "Generosity and Avarice in Medieval Europe" organised by the University of Nottingham and the Royal Historical Society (4th-5th March 2021).
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Communication presented at the Virtual International Medieval Congress 2020, promoted by the Univ... more Communication presented at the Virtual International Medieval Congress 2020, promoted by the University of Leeds.
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Comunicação apresentada nas IV Jornadas Medievais Internacionais de Idade Média: Abastecer a Cida... more Comunicação apresentada nas IV Jornadas Medievais Internacionais de Idade Média: Abastecer a Cidade na Europa Medieval, organizado pelo Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM NOVA/FCSH) e pela Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide.
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Communication presented at the "Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1... more Communication presented at the "Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500" Conference, organised by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, the Maison Française d’Oxford and the UMR Orient- Mediterranée Monde Byzantin.
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Thesis Chapters by Diana Martins
to study the medieval Royal Palace of Alcáçova, the prime residence of the medieval
kings in Lisbon, in the context of the construction of the Royal Palace of Ribeira. This
study is based on a book of building accounts produced between 1507 and 1513.
Call for papers by Diana Martins
Summoning this dimension in the relationship with religion, devotional practices, sensibilities and representations, carries a new set of questions and necessarily calls for different knowledge in order to deepen understanding and the interpretation of the relationship between medieval religiosity and their material translations. From the images carved and painted to the buildings edified, from liturgical objects to reliquaries and tombs, from books to personal objects of piety, from temples to the inscription of the various forms of religious life, there are many domains where the relation between materiality and devotion can be a prospect and a problem. It intersects the material, functional, performative and aesthetic dimensions with the different readings it calls for, the cognitive and emotional apprehensions, the representations (erudite and popular) it associates with, the practices that it sustains, the memories that polarize and legitimize, the powers that were affirmed through it. It discloses the diversity of variants such as wealth and social position, more or less literate training, and gender differences.
The colloquium thus aims to be a broad space for debate, both in the plurality of knowledge and in the diversity of sources, historical, geographical and religious contexts (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and other), and in analytical perspectives.
Conference Presentations by Diana Martins
Lisboa, 29 june 2023
La Corona d’Aragó: cruïlla de cultures. (Girona, 14-16 de juny de 2023)
to study the medieval Royal Palace of Alcáçova, the prime residence of the medieval
kings in Lisbon, in the context of the construction of the Royal Palace of Ribeira. This
study is based on a book of building accounts produced between 1507 and 1513.
Summoning this dimension in the relationship with religion, devotional practices, sensibilities and representations, carries a new set of questions and necessarily calls for different knowledge in order to deepen understanding and the interpretation of the relationship between medieval religiosity and their material translations. From the images carved and painted to the buildings edified, from liturgical objects to reliquaries and tombs, from books to personal objects of piety, from temples to the inscription of the various forms of religious life, there are many domains where the relation between materiality and devotion can be a prospect and a problem. It intersects the material, functional, performative and aesthetic dimensions with the different readings it calls for, the cognitive and emotional apprehensions, the representations (erudite and popular) it associates with, the practices that it sustains, the memories that polarize and legitimize, the powers that were affirmed through it. It discloses the diversity of variants such as wealth and social position, more or less literate training, and gender differences.
The colloquium thus aims to be a broad space for debate, both in the plurality of knowledge and in the diversity of sources, historical, geographical and religious contexts (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and other), and in analytical perspectives.
Lisboa, 29 june 2023
La Corona d’Aragó: cruïlla de cultures. (Girona, 14-16 de juny de 2023)
In 1319 a civil war broke off in Portugal. With the support of some of the Iberian kings, some of the ecclesiastics and a part of the nobility, the infant and heir to the Portuguese throne, Afonso, rebelled against the king. The growth of Denis’ power in the wider European context, the king’s direct interference on political matters concerning other western kingdoms, and his avowed predilection for his bastard, and his growing hostility towards members of the Church and the nobility, determined the action of his son and dictated the form that the rebellion of the infant against his father was to take, between 1319-1324.
This paper aims to focus on the role that the Pope, as represented by his ambassadors in Portugal, tried to play in the resolution of this conflict. Based on documentation of both the Portuguese and the Vatican archives, we will try to analyze their roles, and the ways in which the Pope’s envoys tried to act/ acted as real mediators of the conflict.
Letters from Bartolomeu de Paiva, the King’s ser- vant, to Afonso Monteiro, concerning the renovation works that the King ordered to be carried out in the garden and the palaces.
Royal concession charter stating that, on land owned by the monastery of Saint Clara of Coimbra, noblemen and lords are not allowed to recruit men to serve in their squadrons.
Archive with a deeds ledger stating the amounts owed to Gomes Lourenço, a merchant in San- tarém.
Decree from Dom Brás Henriques, master hunts- man of the Realm, ordering Lourenço Dias to be paid a total of 2400 reais for the delivery of various birds: a prima falcon (14 August 1510); a treçó falcon and a merlin (4 December 1510). Enclosed is a document as proof of payment by Pedro Fernandes, tax collector of the ploughland of Santarém, where the amount paid for each bird is listed: prima falcon (2000 reais), terçó fal- con (300 reais) and merlin (100 reais).
Document of proof that Pedro Fernandes, tax collector of the ploughland of Santarém, paid João Curado, resident in Santarém, for three terçó falcons and a merlin which he delivered to Jorge Vaz, squire of the King’s household, who was responsible for receiving the birds. It states that he received 300 reais for each terçó falcon and 100 reais for the merlin.
Decree from Dom Pedro de Castro, overseer of the Treasury, to Pedro Fernandes, tax collector of the ploughland of Santarém, for him to pay the bird breeders for the falcons that they delivered to Dom Brás, the King’s master huntsman. It states, in part, the amount paid for each of the birds delivered, specifying that a terçó falcon was worth 300 reais.
Estate distribution letter with a detailed inventory of movable and immovable assets owned by João Aires, falconer to King Fernando. The assets are distributed among the falconer’s heirs, João Eanes, merchant, and his wife, Leonor Peres (the falconer’s widower) and the falconer’s daugh- ter, Catarina, represented by her tutor, Gonçalo Martins.
Quittance letter in which Gomes Eanes, the King’s falconer, testifies that Gonçalo Esteves do Casal, squire, had delivered all assets and bed linen belonging, in accordance with the will, to the falconer’s wife, of whom Gonçalo Esteves do Casal had been the tutor.
Register of enrolment of those accepted into the lower and sacred orders in Tomar between the years of 1501 and 1544.
Instructions issued by the Portuguese Cardinal, Jorge da Costa, in Rome, to Francisco Fernandes, whom he sends as his representative to meet with King Manuel I of Portugal. It includes warnings, advice and information about the evolution of the Crown’s businesses with the Roman Curia.
Inventory and description of the content of two chests (one of which containing books) belon- ging to the Brotherhood of Wealthy Clergymen of Lisbon.
Transcript of a letter from King Afonso IV (Lis- bon, 12 April 1335) with instructions issued to the overseer Lourenço Calado to conduct an in- quiry in response to complaints received about the overtaxing of Churches and Monasteries in Entre Douro e Minho.
Royal letter revising the tax that the residents of Abiul Council were obliged to pay to the kings of Portugal. Replacement of payment in kind with payment in currency.
Letter from Dom João, Lisbon’s Bishop, contain- ing the transcription of several letters regarding the execution of the sentence that the aforesaid Bishop had issued against Miguel Lourenço, a carpenter, ordering him to fulfil his marital vows towards his wife.
Royal letter from King Dinis to the Chief Justice of Além-Douro to control the attacks by the no- blemen against the properties and lands belong- ing to the Braga Chapter.
Project FALCO will look closely at the historical human links with raptors / birds of prey. Consisting of the avian families falconidae and accipitridae, raptors include
various species of hawk and falcon. These birds were no strangers to Portuguese (indeed European) medieval culture: human-raptor connections ranged from material partnerships to intellectual representation. The symbolism of raptors was well embedded in the medieval mind, yet as living beings raptors also played a role in a considerable range of human activities.
Through exploration and sustained debate, we aim by the end of the project to have reached a strong methodological foundation for the broad-ranging, cross-disciplinary investigation of medieval human-animal relations, set to work widely across subjects.
Project members:
Alice Tavares
Ana Paiva Morais
Ana Raquel Roque
Carlos Pimenta
Diana Martins
Filipa Soares
Joana Ramôa Melo
Rémy Cordonnier (Co-PI)
Sónia Gomes
Tiago Viúla de Faria (PI)
Project advisers:
Aleks Pluskowsky
Baudouin Van den Abeele
José Manuel Fradejas Rueda
Partner institutions:
Instituto de Estudos Medievais, NOVA FCSH
Câmara Municipal de Salvaterra de Magos
Laboratório de Arqueologia, DGPC
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