Tiago Viúla de Faria
I'm a research fellow at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais, NOVA University of Lisbon, where up until recently I coordinated the research group ‘Territory and Power, a "Glocal" Perspective’.
I'm happy to discuss supervision and co-supervision arrangements on topics in Iberian history and culture (1200-1500), the Hundred Years' War, and on political life in the medieval West broadly considered. Current and former research students of mine have worked on the diplomacy of King Dinis of Portugal (r. 1279-1325), on the Portuguese countess of Arundel in early fifteenth-century England, on Princess-Saint Joan of Portugal as a political persona, on 15th-century royal pardons and overseas military service, and on hunting management and resources in late medieval Portugal.
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Short Bio:
Coming from a trans-disciplinary background -- I trained in Modern Languages (NOVA BA), Medieval Studies (Reading MA), and History (Oxford DPhil) -- my main research interests lay on the configurations of later medieval diplomacy and cross-territorial political pollination and communication. Recently, I have developed a strong interest in medieval environmental studies, namely on falconry practices.
I have been a member of the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), the École pratique des hautes études (Paris), Towson University (Baltimore, US), and the University of Porto, and have taught at NOVA-FCSH (Lisbon), Canterbury Christchurch University and the University of Kent (both UK), of which I remain an associate lecturer.
Over the years, I've peer-reviewed for The English Historical Review, En La España Medieval, the Journal of Medieval History, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Medievalista, Le Moyen Âge; and the Royal Studies Journal, where I served as the founding lead copyeditor.
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Supervisors: At Oxford, I studied under John Watts and Malcolm Vale. As a non-tenured postgraduate, I have worked closely with Maria João Branco (NOVA, Lisbon), Rita Costa Gomes (Towson), and and Stéphane Péquignot (EPHE-Sorbonne).
Address: Instituto de Estudos Medievais -- NOVA
Colégio Almada Negreiros
Campus de Campolide, 1070-312
LISBON
https://goo.gl/maps/YobHCmVMuaGC7CAB6
I'm happy to discuss supervision and co-supervision arrangements on topics in Iberian history and culture (1200-1500), the Hundred Years' War, and on political life in the medieval West broadly considered. Current and former research students of mine have worked on the diplomacy of King Dinis of Portugal (r. 1279-1325), on the Portuguese countess of Arundel in early fifteenth-century England, on Princess-Saint Joan of Portugal as a political persona, on 15th-century royal pardons and overseas military service, and on hunting management and resources in late medieval Portugal.
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Short Bio:
Coming from a trans-disciplinary background -- I trained in Modern Languages (NOVA BA), Medieval Studies (Reading MA), and History (Oxford DPhil) -- my main research interests lay on the configurations of later medieval diplomacy and cross-territorial political pollination and communication. Recently, I have developed a strong interest in medieval environmental studies, namely on falconry practices.
I have been a member of the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), the École pratique des hautes études (Paris), Towson University (Baltimore, US), and the University of Porto, and have taught at NOVA-FCSH (Lisbon), Canterbury Christchurch University and the University of Kent (both UK), of which I remain an associate lecturer.
Over the years, I've peer-reviewed for The English Historical Review, En La España Medieval, the Journal of Medieval History, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Medievalista, Le Moyen Âge; and the Royal Studies Journal, where I served as the founding lead copyeditor.
.
Supervisors: At Oxford, I studied under John Watts and Malcolm Vale. As a non-tenured postgraduate, I have worked closely with Maria João Branco (NOVA, Lisbon), Rita Costa Gomes (Towson), and and Stéphane Péquignot (EPHE-Sorbonne).
Address: Instituto de Estudos Medievais -- NOVA
Colégio Almada Negreiros
Campus de Campolide, 1070-312
LISBON
https://goo.gl/maps/YobHCmVMuaGC7CAB6
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PT :
No início de 2022 arrancará o projecto de investigação "Formulando o relacionamento entre humanos e outras espécies no Portugal medievo / Hypothesising Human-Animal Relations in Medieval Portugal (FCT EXPL/HAR-HIS/1135/2021), para o qual será aberta uma vaga para bolseiro/a de investigação por 12 meses. Se frequentas um mestrado em qualquer área das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, vê este vídeo e fica atento à abertura do concurso a partir de Janeiro.
Essays by Tiago Viúla de Faria
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781855662407/the-chronicles-of-fernao-lopes-5-volume-set/
Keywords: Royal heirs apparent; Medieval dynasticism; Diplomacy in medieval Iberia; House of Avis; Sovereignty
The fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries at large witnessed a process of sovereignty and governance definition, which played out also in the management of relations within the international order. Whilst acknowledging the key role of the Hundred Years’ War in this, the paper discusses friendship and alliance as both notional and legally binding premises in regulating interaction between polities and peoples in the period. It singles out Anglo-Portuguese relations as a case in point. Regarded to this day as long-standing allies, Portugal and England were connected by such ties — formal and informal — of commercial as well as political and military interdependency.
Marine relations were central in this regard, with the sea providing both the setting and a driving force for many an interaction. In such an environment, conflict was a given. Was conflict among self-proclaimed allies any different from conflict generally speaking? How expedient was conflict management when compared with outer players? In the backdrop of mercantile practices and royal policy-making — treaties, business contracts, diplomacy, and judicial procedure included — the paper addresses the interrogations arising from the correlation between conflict and alliance as projected ‘from above’ and as experienced ‘from below’.
Encapsulated in this essay is the idea that, as the official representatives of the polity, royal emissaries while discharging their duties might not have been ready to put aside their personal interest entirely for the sake of their task. This suggestion preambles a discussion that will aim to contemplate the liberties and limits of diplomatic action at the disposal of an agent. Two suppositions can be considered from the outset: that complications within embassies might be moved, in part, by self-interest; and that these interests might differ from the intents of the principal mandating the embassy and get in the way of expected outcomes. My contribution looks into this undercurrent in diplomatic transactions, from the viewpoint of the agent’s own liberties and restrictions. Of particular interest is an assessment of how ambassadorial liberties were able to interfere with the political objectives of the state, and to capture the extent to which they could eventually affect the very policy itself.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22228/rtf.v16i2.1319
André Filipe Oliveira da Silva, Tiago Viúla de Faria
[Republished in Rémy Ambühl and Craig Lambert (eds), "Agincourt in Context: War on Land and Sea" (Routledge: Abingdon and New York, 2019) :
https://books.google.pt/books?id=93t_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Agincourt+in+Context:+War+on+Land+and+Sea&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFtJDR6rPqAhXZ6OAKHT0CB-MQuwUwAHoECAYQCA#v=onepage&q=Agincourt%20in%20Context%3A%20War%20on%20Land%20and%20Sea&f=false ]
► Compares three Anglo-Portuguese campaigns in Portugal in the 1380s. ► Examines political, diplomatic, military, social and economic contexts. ► Explores motivations for English service in Portugal and longer term presence. ► Maps itineraries in Portugal of English soldiers. ► Foreign military intervention and mercenaries as a driving force in relations between regions.
Abstract
Three Anglo-Portuguese campaigns took English servicemen into Portugal in the 1380s. Two were largely guided by Plantagenet interests, in 1381–2 and 1386–7, respectively under the earl of Cambridge and the duke of Lancaster. The other, which began in 1384 under the regent João of Avis (later João I), involved entirely volunteer English forces. While the Lancastrian-led expeditions were largely political and military failures, servicemen recruited by the Portuguese in England achieved greater success, including victory at the Battle of Aljubarrota. This article compares these expeditions for the first time. It looks at their political, diplomatic, military, social and economic contexts, exploring motivations for English service in Portugal in particular, from that of the common soldier to that of the governments. By looking at the itineraries in Portugal of English soldiers, their presence is mapped and their continuance debated. The Anglo-Portuguese examples demonstrate how foreign military intervention and mercenary activity might be a driving force in social and economic relations between regions of Europe during the Hundred Years War.
Please contact me for a copy.
This paper traces Adam Davenport’s professional trajectory of 45 years, from 1374 to 1419, across contrastive political regimes in two different countries, first as a local cleric, then as a senior administrator, and eventually as an unwaged outsider. As the social and financial ties between Davenport and his consecutive benefactors were kept or lost, according to the distribution of grace and the varying configuration of affinities, so Davenport’s fortune changed. The details of this three-tiered career put into focus the critical role played by displacement (geographical as much as societal) and the secular patronage on which men like Davenport – a middling member of an expanding clerical class – came to depend for survival.
Download: http://medievalista.iem.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/medievalista/article/view/38/30
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From the Introduction to the special issue "Ecclesiastics in Diplomatic Affairs, the Administration of the Realm and the Legitimation of Medieval Monarchies: Portugal, León and Castile, France and England" (M.J. Branco and H. Vilar):
"Este é um caso que permite colocar de novo em perspectiva muitas das asserções sobre o tipo e formas de poder que a influência junto à realeza pode granjear aos eclesiásticos, sobre o tipo de clérigos que esperamos ver a desempenhar cargos destacados e alegadamente de poder e sobre as ambições que os próprios actores desse relacionamento acalentam. Despertando-nos, de forma ainda mais acutilante, para a necessidade de mantermos sempre em aberto a forma como encaramos esta realidade e a necessidade de continuarmos a entender quão fundamental é não sermos reducionistas quando tentamos construir modelos e esquemas interpretativos para um mundo muito mais plurifacetado do que por vezes aceitamos, sob pena de não nos apercebermos de todas as nuances de um universo humano muito mais rico do que nós conseguimos imaginar."
(http://medteste.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/medievalista/article/view/31/23)
throne. The death of his elder brother Duarte had left the royal seat vacant and Pedro, a middle-aged, powerful magnate was elected as regent for Duarte’s son Afonso, the boy of six to whom the crown fell. First as the co-regent and then single-handedly, Pedro governed over Portugal and its elites during a decade marked in turn by contentment and upheaval, as much as by courtly struggles between aristocratic factions. In 1449, amidst accusations of lese-majesty and of favouring his own, Pedro would meet a bitter end in the field of battle, at the hands of his young nephew, King Afonso V, seemingly manipulated by an influential clique of enemies to the regent. This paper will examine Pedro of Coimbra and some of the men surrounding him during his political career (c. 1416 to 1449), in particular those employed as «diplomats» in foreign service. It will trace three different stages in Pedro’s trajectory — as a prince in the making, as the king’s counsellor, and finally as regent of the Portuguese kingdom — in order to question the extent to which a leading magnate of the fifteenth century was able to project his political influence in tandem with, or in reaction to, royal power. Ultimately, the paper highlights the co-existence, and indeed the overlap, between royal
and non-royal diplomatic ambitions and the strains and challenges that it
caused in the politics and diplomacy of Portugal in this period.
combined analysis of treaties, their context and the personnel involved, in face of the development of Portuguese mercantile activities in England.
The first section of the paper sets out to demonstrate how varying political and economic interests reflected on the making of treaties, while in the second section a case-study of the effects of diplomacy on trade is presented.
diplomático permiten, desde la variedad de enfoques, casos, espacios y cronologías, comprender en toda su extensión la complejidad de factores que interactúan en las relaciones diplomáticas de los últimos siglos de la Edad Media, permitiendo a su vez detectar también la evolución en los objetivos, prácticas y modos de operar de sus agentes en el período señalado. ... Con esta nueva aportación de los Encuentros Internacionales del Medievo mantienen, por tanto, esa indudable centralidad historiográfica que han obtenido en el medievalismo hispánico de la última década. Esta reunión científica, centrada en la creación de un espacio de intercambio científico en el que los investigadores hispanos puedan contrastar sus propias realidades historiográficas con las de otros contextos europeos, ha logrado, una vez más, un resultado altamente satisfactorio que sin duda constituirá una referencia historiográfica sobre ambas temáticas en los próximos años.'
(review by R.J. González Zalacaín: http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFIII/article/download/16773/14401)
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Review in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Holly Barbaccia; excerpt):
"Attentive to the entangled dynastic, literary, and personal forces at work in Gower's Iberian reception, Tiago Viúla de Faria's essay, "From Norwich to Lisbon: Factionalism, Personal Association, and Conveying the Confessio Amantis," investigates how Philippa carried English literature and politics to Portugal. De Faria closely reads the queen's friendship and written correspondence with Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich and Ricardian supporter, to theorize why, in Portugal, Philippa may have had the version of Gower she did. De Faria reminds us that even if Philippa shared her father's literary tastes, it does not therefore follow that she pursued his political agendas."
( https://muse.jhu.edu/article/686723 )
Review in Arthuriana (Kim Zarins; excerpt):
"In ‘From Norwich to Lisbon: Factionalism, Personal Association, and Conveying the
Confessio Amantis,’ Tiago Viúla de Faria poses an intriguing question to Robert Payn’s Portuguese translation of a first-recension manuscript: what is the sister of Henry IV doing with a manuscript dedicated to Richard II? De Faria attempts to answer this question by shedding light on Philippa of Portugal’s correspondence with Henry Despenser (c.1343–1406), the Bishop of Norwich, who had a long-standing relationship with Philippa despite some tension in his relationships with John of Gaunt and Henry IV. While not a Lancastrian partisan, Despenser was friendly with Philippa and indeed owed much to her defense of him; the manuscript could well have been one of the many gifts he sent to her in gratitude, and de Faria states that she would not have minded the Ricardian praise, since she and the Portuguese court ‘took a dim view of Bolingbroke’s actions’ (138)."
(https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2017.0006)
Review in Speculum (Russell Peck, excerpt):
"The essays are or remarkably high intellectual integrity ... in this remarkable volume"
( https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/686647?mobileUi=0 )
(Mário Farelo, "Introdução")
https://tintadachina.pt/produto/1290-portugal-uma-retrospectiva/
Books by Tiago Viúla de Faria
Apresentação: Ter e Poder - O Domínio Territorial Régio Da Paisagem Natural Ibero-Atlântica (1250-1550), 04-09
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22228/rtf.v16i2.1319
André Filipe Oliveira da Silva, Tiago Viúla de Faria
Propriedade régia e instabilidade climática: Estratégias e soluções de gestão rural no Noroeste português nas vésperas da Peste Negra, 10-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22228/rtf.v16i2.1313
André Filipe Oliveira da Silva
Salvaguardar as florestas régias: os oficiais periféricos e gestão dos recursos naturais no Portugal medieval, 23-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22228/rtf.v16i2.1294
Afonso Soares de Sousa
Os recursos naturais como instrumentos de domínio e negociação no Alentejo do século XV: um contributo a partir dos capítulos de cortes de Estremoz, Elvas e Olivença, 37-52
André Madruga Coelho
O Rei, a Justiça e a expectativa de ação na disputa pelo Reino da Sicília entre Angevinos e Aragoneses, 1282-1302, 53-74
Igor Salomão Teixeira
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PT :
No início de 2022 arrancará o projecto de investigação "Formulando o relacionamento entre humanos e outras espécies no Portugal medievo / Hypothesising Human-Animal Relations in Medieval Portugal (FCT EXPL/HAR-HIS/1135/2021), para o qual será aberta uma vaga para bolseiro/a de investigação por 12 meses. Se frequentas um mestrado em qualquer área das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, vê este vídeo e fica atento à abertura do concurso a partir de Janeiro.
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781855662407/the-chronicles-of-fernao-lopes-5-volume-set/
Keywords: Royal heirs apparent; Medieval dynasticism; Diplomacy in medieval Iberia; House of Avis; Sovereignty
The fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries at large witnessed a process of sovereignty and governance definition, which played out also in the management of relations within the international order. Whilst acknowledging the key role of the Hundred Years’ War in this, the paper discusses friendship and alliance as both notional and legally binding premises in regulating interaction between polities and peoples in the period. It singles out Anglo-Portuguese relations as a case in point. Regarded to this day as long-standing allies, Portugal and England were connected by such ties — formal and informal — of commercial as well as political and military interdependency.
Marine relations were central in this regard, with the sea providing both the setting and a driving force for many an interaction. In such an environment, conflict was a given. Was conflict among self-proclaimed allies any different from conflict generally speaking? How expedient was conflict management when compared with outer players? In the backdrop of mercantile practices and royal policy-making — treaties, business contracts, diplomacy, and judicial procedure included — the paper addresses the interrogations arising from the correlation between conflict and alliance as projected ‘from above’ and as experienced ‘from below’.
Encapsulated in this essay is the idea that, as the official representatives of the polity, royal emissaries while discharging their duties might not have been ready to put aside their personal interest entirely for the sake of their task. This suggestion preambles a discussion that will aim to contemplate the liberties and limits of diplomatic action at the disposal of an agent. Two suppositions can be considered from the outset: that complications within embassies might be moved, in part, by self-interest; and that these interests might differ from the intents of the principal mandating the embassy and get in the way of expected outcomes. My contribution looks into this undercurrent in diplomatic transactions, from the viewpoint of the agent’s own liberties and restrictions. Of particular interest is an assessment of how ambassadorial liberties were able to interfere with the political objectives of the state, and to capture the extent to which they could eventually affect the very policy itself.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22228/rtf.v16i2.1319
André Filipe Oliveira da Silva, Tiago Viúla de Faria
[Republished in Rémy Ambühl and Craig Lambert (eds), "Agincourt in Context: War on Land and Sea" (Routledge: Abingdon and New York, 2019) :
https://books.google.pt/books?id=93t_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Agincourt+in+Context:+War+on+Land+and+Sea&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFtJDR6rPqAhXZ6OAKHT0CB-MQuwUwAHoECAYQCA#v=onepage&q=Agincourt%20in%20Context%3A%20War%20on%20Land%20and%20Sea&f=false ]
► Compares three Anglo-Portuguese campaigns in Portugal in the 1380s. ► Examines political, diplomatic, military, social and economic contexts. ► Explores motivations for English service in Portugal and longer term presence. ► Maps itineraries in Portugal of English soldiers. ► Foreign military intervention and mercenaries as a driving force in relations between regions.
Abstract
Three Anglo-Portuguese campaigns took English servicemen into Portugal in the 1380s. Two were largely guided by Plantagenet interests, in 1381–2 and 1386–7, respectively under the earl of Cambridge and the duke of Lancaster. The other, which began in 1384 under the regent João of Avis (later João I), involved entirely volunteer English forces. While the Lancastrian-led expeditions were largely political and military failures, servicemen recruited by the Portuguese in England achieved greater success, including victory at the Battle of Aljubarrota. This article compares these expeditions for the first time. It looks at their political, diplomatic, military, social and economic contexts, exploring motivations for English service in Portugal in particular, from that of the common soldier to that of the governments. By looking at the itineraries in Portugal of English soldiers, their presence is mapped and their continuance debated. The Anglo-Portuguese examples demonstrate how foreign military intervention and mercenary activity might be a driving force in social and economic relations between regions of Europe during the Hundred Years War.
Please contact me for a copy.
This paper traces Adam Davenport’s professional trajectory of 45 years, from 1374 to 1419, across contrastive political regimes in two different countries, first as a local cleric, then as a senior administrator, and eventually as an unwaged outsider. As the social and financial ties between Davenport and his consecutive benefactors were kept or lost, according to the distribution of grace and the varying configuration of affinities, so Davenport’s fortune changed. The details of this three-tiered career put into focus the critical role played by displacement (geographical as much as societal) and the secular patronage on which men like Davenport – a middling member of an expanding clerical class – came to depend for survival.
Download: http://medievalista.iem.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/medievalista/article/view/38/30
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From the Introduction to the special issue "Ecclesiastics in Diplomatic Affairs, the Administration of the Realm and the Legitimation of Medieval Monarchies: Portugal, León and Castile, France and England" (M.J. Branco and H. Vilar):
"Este é um caso que permite colocar de novo em perspectiva muitas das asserções sobre o tipo e formas de poder que a influência junto à realeza pode granjear aos eclesiásticos, sobre o tipo de clérigos que esperamos ver a desempenhar cargos destacados e alegadamente de poder e sobre as ambições que os próprios actores desse relacionamento acalentam. Despertando-nos, de forma ainda mais acutilante, para a necessidade de mantermos sempre em aberto a forma como encaramos esta realidade e a necessidade de continuarmos a entender quão fundamental é não sermos reducionistas quando tentamos construir modelos e esquemas interpretativos para um mundo muito mais plurifacetado do que por vezes aceitamos, sob pena de não nos apercebermos de todas as nuances de um universo humano muito mais rico do que nós conseguimos imaginar."
(http://medteste.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/medievalista/article/view/31/23)
throne. The death of his elder brother Duarte had left the royal seat vacant and Pedro, a middle-aged, powerful magnate was elected as regent for Duarte’s son Afonso, the boy of six to whom the crown fell. First as the co-regent and then single-handedly, Pedro governed over Portugal and its elites during a decade marked in turn by contentment and upheaval, as much as by courtly struggles between aristocratic factions. In 1449, amidst accusations of lese-majesty and of favouring his own, Pedro would meet a bitter end in the field of battle, at the hands of his young nephew, King Afonso V, seemingly manipulated by an influential clique of enemies to the regent. This paper will examine Pedro of Coimbra and some of the men surrounding him during his political career (c. 1416 to 1449), in particular those employed as «diplomats» in foreign service. It will trace three different stages in Pedro’s trajectory — as a prince in the making, as the king’s counsellor, and finally as regent of the Portuguese kingdom — in order to question the extent to which a leading magnate of the fifteenth century was able to project his political influence in tandem with, or in reaction to, royal power. Ultimately, the paper highlights the co-existence, and indeed the overlap, between royal
and non-royal diplomatic ambitions and the strains and challenges that it
caused in the politics and diplomacy of Portugal in this period.
combined analysis of treaties, their context and the personnel involved, in face of the development of Portuguese mercantile activities in England.
The first section of the paper sets out to demonstrate how varying political and economic interests reflected on the making of treaties, while in the second section a case-study of the effects of diplomacy on trade is presented.
diplomático permiten, desde la variedad de enfoques, casos, espacios y cronologías, comprender en toda su extensión la complejidad de factores que interactúan en las relaciones diplomáticas de los últimos siglos de la Edad Media, permitiendo a su vez detectar también la evolución en los objetivos, prácticas y modos de operar de sus agentes en el período señalado. ... Con esta nueva aportación de los Encuentros Internacionales del Medievo mantienen, por tanto, esa indudable centralidad historiográfica que han obtenido en el medievalismo hispánico de la última década. Esta reunión científica, centrada en la creación de un espacio de intercambio científico en el que los investigadores hispanos puedan contrastar sus propias realidades historiográficas con las de otros contextos europeos, ha logrado, una vez más, un resultado altamente satisfactorio que sin duda constituirá una referencia historiográfica sobre ambas temáticas en los próximos años.'
(review by R.J. González Zalacaín: http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFIII/article/download/16773/14401)
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Review in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Holly Barbaccia; excerpt):
"Attentive to the entangled dynastic, literary, and personal forces at work in Gower's Iberian reception, Tiago Viúla de Faria's essay, "From Norwich to Lisbon: Factionalism, Personal Association, and Conveying the Confessio Amantis," investigates how Philippa carried English literature and politics to Portugal. De Faria closely reads the queen's friendship and written correspondence with Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich and Ricardian supporter, to theorize why, in Portugal, Philippa may have had the version of Gower she did. De Faria reminds us that even if Philippa shared her father's literary tastes, it does not therefore follow that she pursued his political agendas."
( https://muse.jhu.edu/article/686723 )
Review in Arthuriana (Kim Zarins; excerpt):
"In ‘From Norwich to Lisbon: Factionalism, Personal Association, and Conveying the
Confessio Amantis,’ Tiago Viúla de Faria poses an intriguing question to Robert Payn’s Portuguese translation of a first-recension manuscript: what is the sister of Henry IV doing with a manuscript dedicated to Richard II? De Faria attempts to answer this question by shedding light on Philippa of Portugal’s correspondence with Henry Despenser (c.1343–1406), the Bishop of Norwich, who had a long-standing relationship with Philippa despite some tension in his relationships with John of Gaunt and Henry IV. While not a Lancastrian partisan, Despenser was friendly with Philippa and indeed owed much to her defense of him; the manuscript could well have been one of the many gifts he sent to her in gratitude, and de Faria states that she would not have minded the Ricardian praise, since she and the Portuguese court ‘took a dim view of Bolingbroke’s actions’ (138)."
(https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2017.0006)
Review in Speculum (Russell Peck, excerpt):
"The essays are or remarkably high intellectual integrity ... in this remarkable volume"
( https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/686647?mobileUi=0 )
(Mário Farelo, "Introdução")
https://tintadachina.pt/produto/1290-portugal-uma-retrospectiva/
Apresentação: Ter e Poder - O Domínio Territorial Régio Da Paisagem Natural Ibero-Atlântica (1250-1550), 04-09
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22228/rtf.v16i2.1319
André Filipe Oliveira da Silva, Tiago Viúla de Faria
Propriedade régia e instabilidade climática: Estratégias e soluções de gestão rural no Noroeste português nas vésperas da Peste Negra, 10-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22228/rtf.v16i2.1313
André Filipe Oliveira da Silva
Salvaguardar as florestas régias: os oficiais periféricos e gestão dos recursos naturais no Portugal medieval, 23-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22228/rtf.v16i2.1294
Afonso Soares de Sousa
Os recursos naturais como instrumentos de domínio e negociação no Alentejo do século XV: um contributo a partir dos capítulos de cortes de Estremoz, Elvas e Olivença, 37-52
André Madruga Coelho
O Rei, a Justiça e a expectativa de ação na disputa pelo Reino da Sicília entre Angevinos e Aragoneses, 1282-1302, 53-74
Igor Salomão Teixeira
Roberta Anderson, Reinhard Eisendle and Suna Suner (eds.), Performing Diplomacy in the Early Modern World. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag
The book's first group of essays sets Portugal, England, and the Iberian Peninsula against the wider context of ‘international’ contact and exchange. The second group aims to introduce Philippa of Lancaster to the reader in the many dimensions of her life trajectory, as well as her historical and popular reception. The last group of essays expounds in detail a number of literary, artistic, scientific, devotional, and intellectual filaments which lend shape to the culture of the Portuguese royal court between the late fourteenth century and the first decades of the fifteenth century.
The seminar, called "Advances in human-animal relations in medieval Portugal", will discuss the main results obtained during the course of the project, as well as perspectives for future research.
This will be an open event and all are welcome to join in.
We will be meeting at FCSH's Colégio Almada Negreiros (Lisbon), Sala/Room SC, Floor 0.
Hope to see you there!
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
(News link: https://www.facebook.com/InstitutoEstudosMedievais/photos/a.1647751625444789/3077568035796467/ More information soon to follow... )
Paper co-authored with Sónia Gomes, read at the Report(h)a IV conference (14.10.2021).
ABSTRACT
The pre-modern man and the natural environment were almost inseparable. This bond did not fail to include the animal world. The approach to animal illness and trauma predatedwhat we know as veterinary science today. During the Middle Ages, practical and theoretical methods for curing animals were developed especially in the case of species which, due to their closer relaionship to man, were in a place of affection regarding human communities. The coexistence of knowledge, traditions and cultures (Jewish, Islamic and Christian) made the Iberian Peninsula a privileged setting for the development of veterinary knowledge. One of the best examples is the treatise known as the Libro de la montería, which was drawn up in Castile during the reign of Alfonso XI (1312-1350). As part of a Mozarabic tradition, it influenced in turn the production of other Iberian works, throughout the middle ages, such as the Tratado das enfermedades das aves de caça, from the time of King Dinis, and, obviously, King João I’s "Livro da Montaria". Our paper will focus on the Castilian "Libro de la Montería" as a technical and scientific record, particularly with regard to its approach to animal disease and cure. A particularly rich work and a basis for veterinary science, the "Libro de la Montería" also provides a mirror on the medieval man’s relationship with the natural environment.
My talk, in Portuguese, about "Lisboa e a diplomacia portuguesa de finais da Idade Média" for the first SIGILLUM web conference, Brazil (Universidade Federal de Tocantins; Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará) now online, with colleagues D Lima, L César, T Groh e D Pimenta.
https://youtu.be/nQuuCBNDQlM?t=136
(approximately 35 minutes plus Q&A)
https://www.casadevelazquez.org/pt/investigacao/noticia/correspondentes-femininas-no-contexto-epistolar-de-isabel-duquesa-de-borgonha-1430-1471/
Intervenção integrada na apresentação do Portal Fernão Lopes (30 Abril 2020)
Hiperligação para a 2ª parte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQKPmDjlT0
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Em 2009, iniciava-se um ambicioso projecto centrado em Fernão Lopes. Coordenado por Amélia Hutchinson e, até ao seu falecimento, pela Professora Teresa Amado, culminará em 2021 com a publicação integral das Crónicas em língua inglesa. O projecto é fruto da colaboração exaustiva de uma equipa diversa, composta de especialistas em estudos literários, tradutores, linguistas, historiadores e informáticos.
Como complemento à edição das Crónicas, foi concebido por Amélia Hutchinson e desenvolvido na University of Georgia um website que auxiliasse o leitor a percorrer os numerosos referentes (onomásticos, topográficos e outros) na obra de Fernão Lopes. Esta autêntica base de dados constitui-se, por isso, como ferramenta essencial à leitura e interpretação contextualizada do Autor.
Prestes a celebrar uma década de existência, o website conhece agora no IEM / NOVA-FCSH uma nova morada, para além de uma vocação renovada: a de se constituir como Portal educativo para o universo cultural em torno de um dos maiores autores da Literatura Portuguesa – e, em simultâneo, um dos grandes “historiadores” da Europa do seu tempo…
Ligação / Link:
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/111292692?pwd=eDZTRVdQVWUzazFpdm1aRERVTFordz09
Programa / Programme:
https://iem.fcsh.unl.pt/imagens/files/PROGRAMA%20Apresentação%20do%20Fernão%20Lopes%20Portal.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2JWMdbbjayuX32ehz4VW1oFKyJeP3WxdFTGm0wjM11ba83-d-mE4dE5mc
Em 2009, iniciava-se um ambicioso projecto centrado em Fernão Lopes. Coordenado por Amélia Hutchinson e, até ao seu falecimento, pela Professora Teresa Amado, culminará em 2021 com a publicação integral das Crónicas em língua inglesa. O projecto é fruto da colaboração exaustiva de uma equipa diversa, composta de especialistas em estudos literários, tradutores, linguistas, historiadores e informáticos. Como complemento à edição das Crónicas, foi concebido por Amélia Hutchinson e desenvolvido na University of Georgia um website que auxiliasse o leitor a percorrer os numerosos referentes (onomásticos, topográficos e outros) na obra de Fernão Lopes. Esta autêntica base de dados constitui-se, por isso, como ferramenta essencial à leitura e interpretação contextualizada do Autor. Prestes a celebrar uma década de existência, o website conhece agora no IEM / NOVA-FCSH uma nova morada, para além de uma vocação renovada: a de se constituir como Portal educativo para o universo cultural em torno de um dos maiores autores da Literatura Portuguesa – e, em simultâneo, um dos grandes “historiadores” da Europa do seu tempo…
http://visao.sapo.pt/historia/2019-07-08-Portugal-e-Inglaterra
ENROLMENT NOW OPEN
This meeting delves into the complexities of the relationship between canis and human. The first iteration of the Medieval Hunting Meetings is dedicated to this topic, addressing key questions that include: Which sort of relation did humans have with wolves and dogs in the Middle Ages? Did Medieval humans contribute to the proximity with, or disaffection from, these animals? What role did these creatures play in the sphere of hunting? To this end, we have brought together a series of contributions, coming from quite different perspectives, to reflect on the understanding of inter-species coexistence in the longue durée, largely based on the Medieval Iberian record but far from limited to it. We look forward to the combined insights into our past life with canis, from the ecological, biological, archaeological, artistic, and other approaches taken in these papers.
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The subject is diplomacy and diplomatic relations in shaping the polities of Europe: the intersection between state-growth and diplomacy.
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RiMS 2022 is pleased to announce Professor Isabella Lazzarini as the meeting's guest convener.
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The call is open to any scholar of medieval Europe, particularly those who have produced, or potentially will produce, groundbreaking research.
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Papers will be committed to double-blind peer review. A selection will be published by the Coimbra University Press both in print and as an open-access, database indexed e-monograph.
We invite the submission of unpublished, original research work to RiMS 2021. The second RiMS meeting will congregate around the subject of communal organisation in the European urban parish from the Gregorian Reform to the Council of Trent.
Important dates
• Call for papers open from 15 February 2021 thru 30 April 2021
• Applicants will be informed of decision by 31 May 2021
• Papers submitted by 31 October 2021
• Seminar in Coimbra on the 2-3 December 2021
• Post-seminar manuscript submitted for peer-review by 31 January 2022
• Final version of the manuscript submitted for publication by 30 April 2022.
The first meeting (26 and 27 November) will discuss the linkage between production and trade across several European regions over an extended timeline. Factors such as technical and technological innovation, and advances in the productive sector will come under analysis as they connected with the development of merchant and commercial networks, and of economic markets.
Production and Commerce in Europe, 1100-1550 features Carsten Jahnke (Copenhagen) as guest convener and Bas van Bavel (Utrecht) as keynote speaker. Participation, via zoom, is free and does not require registration.
Call for papers is open till 20 March 2020
The RiMS Meeting invites research papers on how technical, productive, organisational, commercial, and mercantile innovations stimulated economic growth and the expansion of international trade from the twelfth century to the early sixteenth century. Recent historiographical works on medieval European trade follow approaches favouring the study of socioeconomic networks, the role of institutions, conflict management, port infrastructures, and cross-cultural exchange. In 2017, The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300–1600 pushed the theoretical analysis further by examining the level of autonomy of ports cities ‘vis-à-vis other powers in their environment or network,’ and the relation between cities and states. Moreover, it aimed at offering a ‘refreshing vision on Europe’s integration from the seaside’ (p. 11), one which was deepened in the 50th edition of the study week, in 2018, of the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” dedicated to Maritime Networks as a Factor of European Integration.
Rather than looking at the complexities of urban autonomy, conflict management, and European integration, the RiMS Meeting returns, in a certain way, to the classical approach proposed in Lopez’s ground-breaking work The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages 950-1350, first published in 1971. Thus, it proposes to observe Europe’s expansion of long-distance trade by re-evaluating and investigating, under the light of recent research, the articulation between the productive sectors (agriculture and industry) and foreign commercial exchange between the twelfth and the early sixteenth century. It seeks not to underline the revolution of medieval trade, but the intricacies of both the productive and commercial sectors for the centuries preceding the first global age. The chronology of this project will include the first five decades of the sixteenth century in order to examine elements of continuity and change in European production and commerce, following the expansion of trade to other continents and newfound lands.
The call for papers is open to every scholar working on European history, particularly those who have produced ground-breaking research on medieval economic history. The meeting proceedings will be published both in paper and as an open-access, indexed e-monograph by the Coimbra University Press. Papers will be committed to double-blind review from a specialist board of advisers.
Research sections:
1. The primary and secondary sectors in their articulation with long-distance trade
a. Which European regions developed specialised productions towards the export market, and what distinct features did they have?
b. How did the primary and secondary sectors articulate with long-distance trade?
2. Production, infrastructures, and markets
a. How important were local and regional markets for international trade?
b. How much of the local and regional production was meant for export?
c. What type of infrastructures supported regional and foreign trade?
3. Economic policies, and growth
a. To what extent were rulers and urban governments responsible for economic growth, both in terms of production and commerce?
b. What links existed between the fluctuations in productivity and commerce, and those of economic growth?
c. How do historians evaluate the relevance of medieval overland and sea-borne transport?
4. Agents, commerce, and social dynamics
a. Which agents and organisations exerted control over production and distribution?
b. What relation between the production centre and the foreign market?
c. What changes did the expansion of production and international trade cause in society?
Researchers are invited to send a 500-words proposal and a up to two-page curriculum vitæ by 28 February 2020 to [email protected]. Applicants will be informed of the scientific committee’s decision by 31 March 2020.
The RiMS Meeting will have a registration fee of €80, which will include access to coffee break and meals (2 lunches and 2 dinners) for the duration of the event. The organisation expects applicants to have financial support of their institutions to cover travel and accommodation costs. A list of affordable hotels will be provided at the website of the event (under development). Soon, a list of keynote speakers will also be announced. Stay tuned!
Important dates
• Call for papers open from 13 January 2020 thru 20 March 2020
• Applicants will be informed of decision by 31 March 2020
• Papers submitted by 30 September 2020
• Seminar in Porto on the 26th and 27th of November 2020
• Post-seminar manuscript submitted for peer-review by 31 January 2021
• Final version of the manuscript submitted for publication by 30 April 2021