Ricardo Alexandre Santana

e-mail | rafsantana@campus.ul.pt

Ricardo Alexandre Fonseca Santana holds a master’s degree in Medieval History from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) (2017-2019), with the dissertation A Circulação de “gentes” e “cousas” entre Portugal e Castela nos séc. XIV e XV. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in history from FLUL (2014-2017), completing his undergraduate research project titled “A Peste Negra no Século XIV em Inglaterra”. Since 2020, he has been a PhD candidate in Medieval History at FLUL, working on his doctoral thesis titled and registered as “«Passar e levar destes nossos regnos per mar ou por terra»: O Comércio de Portugal na Ibéria (1385-1495)”. Since 2022, within the Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies research group, he has been a non-doctoral integrated researcher at the Center for History of the University of Lisbon (CH-ULisboa). He has participated in various events and activities organized or coorganized by CH-ULisboa, including as a speaker at the XI Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de História in 2021, the sixth edition of the International Seminar tied to the Fazenda Study Program, titled Economic management, social and mental tensions in imperial dynamics and at the margin of empires (2022), and at Tubos de Ensaio: História em Laboratório. Additionally, he contributed to the seventh edition of the Fazenda International Seminar titled Credit, Public Debt and Finance in the Empires of the Modern Era (15th-19th centuries), held in 2024. He has also been involved in several CH-ULisboa research projects, such as serving as an internal researcher for the project Economies, societies and finances in imperial dynamics and on the margins of empires (2022–2023). He remains part of the Fazenda Study Program team through the project Credit, Public Debt and Finance in the Empires of the Modern Era (15th-19th centuries). He has been an active member of the History Students’ Association (NEH-FLUL) since 2024, specifically within the Communication and Image Department, collaborating on the promotion of various activities organized by students from all levels of the History program at FLUL, including CH-ULisboa events. Outside CH-ULisboa, Ricardo participated in the Autumn School in Medieval Studies (2024), organized by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM – NOVA FCSH) and the Municipality of Castelo de Vide. His first academic article, Christian and Muslim mentalities during the Third Crusade in Acre, Damascus, and Jerusalem, represented in “Assassin’s Creed”, was published in 2022 and originated from his participation in The Middle Ages in Modern Games: Twitter Conference of the same year.