Portugal Archive
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Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice: From Oriental Bazar to English Cloister in Anglo-French
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No CommentsUntil recently, such limited interest as late Anglo-French was able to arouse amongst scholars specializing in medieval French has been confined, with only a very few exceptions, to the efforts made in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries to teach what was by now a language unknown to most of the inhabitants of a country moving inexorably towards the unchallenged dominance of English as the national language. -
“Vir sapiens dominabitur astris”. Astrological knowledge and practices in the Portuguese medieval court (King João I to King Afonso V)
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsOffers a brief explanation on the foundations of medieval astrology. Astrology reveals itself as a complex body of knowledge, with specific rules and methods. Its principles were based on the natural movement of the celestial bodies: the rising and setting of the Sun, the sequence of the seasons, the phases of the Moon. -
The Cone of Africa . . . Took Shape in Lisbon
Posted on February 19, 2013 | No CommentsThe year that Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic and Isabel and Ferdinand expelled the Jews from Spain, an unheralded event took place. A cartographer in Lisbon, Portugal, drew an amazing map detailing the coasts of Europe, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and western Africa. -
The Crusades Go Global: Crusading in the 16th Century
Posted on December 26, 2012 | No CommentsToday I will argue that the crusades, an already well-established, world-historical movement went global in the 16th century. -
Beyond chicken: avian biodiversity in a Portuguese late medieval urban site
Posted on November 14, 2012 | No CommentsBetween 2003 and 2004, prior to the construction of an underground parking in the Avenue Miguel Fernandes, an archaeological rescue excavation was carried out by a team of archaeologists from the company Crivarque...The excavations uncovered 137 silos, of which 109 were fully excavated. The high concentration of silos turned out to be the most striking find of the archaeological works. -
King João II of Portugal “O Príncipe Perfeito” and the Jews (1481-1495)
Posted on September 24, 2012 | No CommentsKing João II of Portugal, who reigned over the Portuguese from 1481 un- til 1495, has enjoyed a rather positive posthumous reputation in Portugal and in Portuguese historiography...In Jewish historiography, however, the ruthlessness of King João II has earned him considerable infamy. -
Patronage and indebtedness: Portugal, Castile and the papal Court around the year 1300
Posted on August 20, 2012 | No CommentsAt the time of Nicholas IV’s election in February 1288, for thirteen long years the king and kingdom of Portugal had been suffering the consequences of excommunication and interdict, as specified in ‘De regno Portugalie’, Gregory X’s ‘constitution, ordinance and provision’ of September 1275. -
Portuguese ecclesiastics and Portuguese affairs near the Spanish cardinals in the roman curia : 1213-1254
Posted on July 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe lives, families and clienteles of Pelayo Gaitán and Gil Torres, the two cardinals whose actions I wish to analyse here (1213-1254), seem to be a good example of how instrumental, their 'natio' proved to be, in the management of the affairs they were summoned to deal with. -
The Cluniac Priories of Galicia and Portugal: Their Acquisition and Administration 1075-ca.1230
Posted on June 17, 2012 | No CommentsIt goes without saying that two topics are central to progress on all the rest, and it is to these that the present paper will address itself. First, the problem of acquisition...Secondly, the problem of administration... -
Historian uncovers cases of ransoms paid to Vikings in the 11th century
Posted on June 13, 2012 | No CommentsHow much were two women worth in 11th century Iberia? For the Vikings the price was a blanket of wolf skin, a sword, a shirt, three scarves, a cow and some salt. -
Fourth-century Hebrew inscription discovered in Portugal
Posted on June 5, 2012 | No CommentsFind is the oldest Jewish archaeological evidence discovered on the Iberian Peninsula -
The Difference A King Makes: Religion And National Unity In Spain
Posted on June 3, 2012 | No CommentsIt is the end of the Roman period, however, that interests us most. What happened then is a model for the relationship between Church and state that has had an enduring and powerful influence. -
In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe river Lima, which crosses the upper Minho region, one of the great and beautiful landscapes in Portugal, had witnessed some of the most significant moments of her life. And yet, Inês had probably been born very far away in England, in the reign of Edward III. -
Depositions of rulers in the later middle ages: on the theory of the “useless ruler” and its practical utilization
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsThe fact that in late medieval times more or less changes of rulers by force increased in nearly all European kingdoms, may indeed be read as a symptom of change in kingship as well as in the basic order of lordship. -
The Inquisition featured on a special issue of Hispanic Research Journal
Posted on January 4, 2012 | No CommentsHispanic Research Journal has released its February 2012 issue today, with a special issue entitled Negotiating Power in the Iberian Inquisitions: Courts, Crowns, and Creeds. Five articles dealing with the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions are published in the issue, which will be freely available until mid-February. -
Christian Society on the Second Crusade: Religious Practices in the De expugnatione Lyxbonensi
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsThroop examines an Anglo-Norman account of the conquest of Lisbon in 1147, De expugnatione Lyxbonensi, to see what religious practices we see in the text, including lay piety and the implications for crusading. -
The uses of luxury: some examples from the Portuguese courts from 1480 to 1580
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe uses of luxury: some examples from the Portuguese courts from 1480 to 1580 By Isabel dos Guimarães Sá Análise Social, Vol.44:192 (2009) Abstract: The article explores the relationship between... -
The Treaty of Windsor (1386) in a European context
Posted on August 18, 2011 | No CommentsIn the early evening of Monday 14 August 1385, between 6 and 7 p.m., a crushing defeat was inflicted by a Portuguese army on a numerically far superior and better-equipped Castilian force. -
Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (1360-1415)
Posted on August 17, 2011 | No CommentsPhilippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (1360-1415) By Manuela Santos Silva The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern, edited by Liz Oakley-Brown and Louise J. Wilkinson (Four... -
Jewish History and Gentile Memory: The Expulsion of 1492
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsJewish History and Gentile Memory: The Expulsion of 1492 By Edward Peters Jewish History, Vol. 9 No. 1 (1995) Introduction: During the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, the Christian kingdoms... -
Disposable alliances: Aragon and Castille during the War of the two Pedros and beyond
Posted on August 11, 2011 | No CommentsDisposable alliances: Aragon and Castille during the War of the two Pedros and beyond Kagay, Donald J. Albany State University, Working Paper (2010) Abstract If as Clausewitz declared “war is... -
Portugal meets Italy: the Sephardic Communities of the Diaspora on Italian Soil (1496-1600)
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsPortugal meets Italy: the Sephardic Communities of the Diaspora on Italian Soil (1496-1600) By Joseph Abraham Levi Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, No.5 (2005) Introduction: This study follows the itinerary of... -
Ssegunt natura de los cielos e de las otras cosas spirituales: Alfonso X, Astrology, and Kingship
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsSsegunt natura de los cielos e de las otras cosas spirituales: Alfonso X, Astrology, and Kingship Waleko, Alexandra Haverford College, Senior Thesis Seminar, April (2011) Abstract As king, Alfonso oversaw... -
From Islam to Christianity: Urban Changes in Medieval Portuguese Cities
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsFrom Islam to Christianity: Urban Changes in Medieval Portuguese Cities Trindade,Luísa Religion and Power in Europe : Conflict and Convergence (Pisa, 2007) Abstract Abstract Focusing on the Islamic urban pattern... -
Peter’s Medicine – lessons from the 13th century
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsPeter’s Medicine – lessons from the 13th century By Walter J. Daly Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, Vol.109 (1998) Introduction: The Middle Ages should be known as...
