Manuel Fialho Silva

e-mail | manuel.fialho@cm-lisboa.pt

Born in Lisbon, he is a researcher at the Lisbon City Council’s Gabinete de Estudos Olisiponenses. He is a member of the Center for History of the University of Lisbon, where he is a member of the “Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies” Research Group. He is also a colaborator investigator of UNIARQ, the Center of Archaeology of the University of Lisbon. With a degree in Classical Languages and Literatures, he obtained a Master’s degree in Classical Studies from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon in 2009. In 2017, he defended his PhD thesis in Medieval History at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, entitled “Urban Change in Medieval Lisbon: from the Taifas to King Dinis”. He is currently working on the History of the Jews of Portugal and Medieval and in Archaeology of the Islamic period. His doctoral thesis “Urban Change in Medieval Lisbon: from the Taifas to King Dinis” was published in 2022 by the History Center of the University of Lisbon. He has published dozens of book chapters and scientific articles in various specialised works and has also taken part in various national and international scientific meetings. He has co-organised several international scientific meetings in close coordination between the institutions in which he participates as a researcher.