DIGITAL RESOURCES
Body&Soul. Representations of the body and soul in Portugal in the Middle Ages
African Ivories in the Atlantic World
ARANHIS - Archivum Annalisticum Hispanum
Dictionary of Portuguese Historians
eReginae. Writing and Queens. Reginal Chancelleries as Instruments of Power
Sources for African History Platform
African Ivories in the Atlantic World
The main goals of this project were: to reconsider the perception of Luso-Africans ivories; to reassess their artistic hybridity; to identify works which have been overlooked; to evaluate the trends, cronology and agents of raw ivory trade, both in Africa and in the Atlantic World, in connection with trade networks, particularly slave trade. A combined methodology for studying the objects’ meanings and context of production, from Portuguese written sources, has enabled the research team members to identify and date early West African ivories. This work is now be systematized, having been created a corpus of African objects, in a broader chronology (c. 1500-c.1800); enlarging the spatial scope to West Central Africa and Brazil.
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Inventories
ARANHIS - Archivum Annalisticum Hispanum
ARANHIS (Archivum Annalisticum Hispanum) is a research project on annals and other brief historiographical records written in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Conceived from an interdisciplinary perspective, the project's main objectives are to provide digital resources (digital editions and a database) and to analyze the texts and their contexts of production. In the first stage of the project, texts produced in the western area of the Peninsula will be studied.
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Digital Editions
Body&Soul. Representations of the body and soul in Portugal in the Middle Ages
This exploratory project aims to investigate representations of the body and soul in medieval Portugal, drawing on evidence found in Portuguese-language literature and in a representative collection of artistic works produced during that period.
Digital Results
Dictionary of Portuguese Historians
This dictionary aims to broaden knowledge about the historians who wrote about the national past, their perspectives on historical knowledge, historiographical theories and currents, scientific institutions, newspapers and magazines to which they were linked. It aims to be a reference work, providing information on the thinking of historians who stood out until the beginning of the 1970s (some of them forgotten) and drawing up summaries of the historiography produced.
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EGYPOPCULT: A Multidisciplinary Project on the Reception of Ancient Egypt in Contemporary Popular Culture
This exploratory project aims to promote these studies by creating a space for multidisciplinary scientific debate and exchange. This collaborative initiative will be channelled through the creation of a database and a scientific network, both unparalleled, which can be used as an essential source for future research nationally and internationally. It also seeks to provide new approaches to the multiple recreations of Ancient Egypt in contemporary popular culture.
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Database
eReginae. Writing and Queens. Reginal Chancelleries as Instruments of Power
eReginae's aim is to search for, collect, digitally edit and index the documentation issued by the queens consort of the medieval Christian West, in order to study their writing practices and also to reconstruct and analyze their chancelleries, seeing them as instruments of regal power.
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Digital Editions
iForal. Portuguese municipal charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era
This transdisciplinary project aims to produce an open-access electronic edition of municipal charters issued by Portuguese monarchs up to the year 1279, along with their subsequent medieval copies. The project will also develop a comprehensive glossary of medieval Portuguese words. Advancements in Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tools will be developed using the eScriptorium platform.
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Œconomia Studii. Financing, management, and resources of the Portuguese University: a comparative analysis (13th-16th centuries)
Œconomia Studii focuses on issues related to university funding and resources, using various economic indicators: prices, rents, movable and immovable property, emoluments, fines, salaries, loans, donations, legacies and wills, etc. It is important to explore how these variables were interwoven into the social fabric in terms of relations with the authorities, networks of dependency and clientele, professional careers, the origin of the salaries of masters and officers, ways of supporting students, housing practices and student mobility.
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Sources for African History Platform
This platform aims to collect, preserve, inventory and disseminate written, graphic and audiovisual documentation from African countries. Through the treatment of personal collections and documentary collections, made available in open access, it contributes to the safeguarding of invaluable sources for the history of Africa.
