Thesis Chapters by Diana Martins
This dissertation, which benefits from the Merit Scholarship IEM/EGEAC, intents
to study the me... more This dissertation, which benefits from the Merit Scholarship IEM/EGEAC, intents
to study the medieval Royal Palace of Alcáçova, the prime residence of the medieval
kings in Lisbon, in the context of the construction of the Royal Palace of Ribeira. This
study is based on a book of building accounts produced between 1507 and 1513.
Call for papers by Diana Martins
Depending on where one would stand in Europe in the Middle Ages, the sea could either be the cent... more Depending on where one would stand in Europe in the Middle Ages, the sea could either be the centre of the known world or its ultimate edge. This mixed potential has always drawn humans into the big unknown, allowing them to use the sea to catch fish, to sail towards distant lands for reasons of faith and trade, to establish contacts with civilisations of different creeds, to wage wars for political and economic domination, and inspired them to write poetry and dream about the world beyond. All this is reflected in the abundant researches from Archaeology, Art History, History, Literature, and other disciplines that, in the past decades, have investigated fisheries and natural resources, overseas trade and commercial institutions, maritime power and socioeconomic conflict management, religious migrations, among other topics.
The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inte... more The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. This has enabled a more cohesive reading of the way in which the medieval Man related to his material environment, manipulating, adapting and transforming it, of the uses given to the objects he produced, the meanings attributed, how he interacted with them in cognitive and affective terms.
Summoning this dimension in the relationship with religion, devotional practices, sensibilities and representations, carries a new set of questions and necessarily calls for different knowledge in order to deepen understanding and the interpretation of the relationship between medieval religiosity and their material translations. From the images carved and painted to the buildings edified, from liturgical objects to reliquaries and tombs, from books to personal objects of piety, from temples to the inscription of the various forms of religious life, there are many domains where the relation between materiality and devotion can be a prospect and a problem. It intersects the material, functional, performative and aesthetic dimensions with the different readings it calls for, the cognitive and emotional apprehensions, the representations (erudite and popular) it associates with, the practices that it sustains, the memories that polarize and legitimize, the powers that were affirmed through it. It discloses the diversity of variants such as wealth and social position, more or less literate training, and gender differences.
The colloquium thus aims to be a broad space for debate, both in the plurality of knowledge and in the diversity of sources, historical, geographical and religious contexts (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and other), and in analytical perspectives.
Conference Presentations by Diana Martins
Research in Medieval Studies (RiMS), 2023
Presentation made in the Research in Medieval Studies (RiMS) 2023: Domestic interiors and househo... more Presentation made in the Research in Medieval Studies (RiMS) 2023: Domestic interiors and household consumption in Europe, 1000-1500, which took place in Braga, on the importance of hunting for the affirmation of royal power and the way in which the royal household served such purpose.
Paper presented at the IMC 2023: Networks in the session 718 - Networking Religion and Diplomacy ... more Paper presented at the IMC 2023: Networks in the session 718 - Networking Religion and Diplomacy in Medieval Portugal, organized by Paulo Catarino Lopes e João Luís Inglês Fontes.
FALCO CLOSING MEETING: Advances in human-animal relations in medieval Portugal, 2023
Presentation made at the FALCO CLOSING MEETING: Advances in human-animal relations in medieval Po... more Presentation made at the FALCO CLOSING MEETING: Advances in human-animal relations in medieval Portugal.
Lisboa, 29 june 2023
Presentation on the importance of the use of "Diplomatic Correspondence and Documentation" for the study of Portuguese medieval Falconry
Presentation on the importance of the use of "Diplomatic Correspondence and Documentation" for th... more Presentation on the importance of the use of "Diplomatic Correspondence and Documentation" for the study of Portuguese medieval Falconry. Activity within the FALCO project.
Communication presented at the International Congress "VIATOR: Viagens e viajantes medievais — Si... more Communication presented at the International Congress "VIATOR: Viagens e viajantes medievais — Simpósio dedicado ao estudo da viagem, circulação e mobilidade na Idade Média" (November 2021).
Communication présente dans la Journées doctorales internationales du CESCM "L’absence au Moyen Âge"
Communication Presented at the MEMSA - Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries II (online).
Against All Adversity: Portuguese Diplomatic Travel during the Reign of King Dinis, 1279-1325
Presented at the IMC 2021 — Session 313 "Climate and Travel in the Middle Ages" (Monday 5 July 20... more Presented at the IMC 2021 — Session 313 "Climate and Travel in the Middle Ages" (Monday 5 July 2021: 16.30-18.00). Session organised by Paulo Catarino Lopes and sponsored by the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Communication presented at the Virtual International Medieval Congress 2020, promoted by the Univ... more Communication presented at the Virtual International Medieval Congress 2020, promoted by the University of Leeds.
Comunicação apresentada nas IV Jornadas Medievais Internacionais de Idade Média: Abastecer a Cida... more Comunicação apresentada nas IV Jornadas Medievais Internacionais de Idade Média: Abastecer a Cidade na Europa Medieval, organizado pelo Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM NOVA/FCSH) e pela Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide.
A queen, a sister and a mother. The role of Elizabeth of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, as a sponsor of Iberian peace (1300-1305).
Communication presented at the "Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1... more Communication presented at the "Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500" Conference, organised by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, the Maison Française d’Oxford and the UMR Orient- Mediterranée Monde Byzantin.
Communication presented at the "Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean (6th – 15th C... more Communication presented at the "Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean (6th – 15th Centuries)" Conference, organised by the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean.
In 1319 a civil war broke off in Portugal. With the support of some of the Iberian kings, some of the ecclesiastics and a part of the nobility, the infant and heir to the Portuguese throne, Afonso, rebelled against the king. The growth of Denis’ power in the wider European context, the king’s direct interference on political matters concerning other western kingdoms, and his avowed predilection for his bastard, and his growing hostility towards members of the Church and the nobility, determined the action of his son and dictated the form that the rebellion of the infant against his father was to take, between 1319-1324.
This paper aims to focus on the role that the Pope, as represented by his ambassadors in Portugal, tried to play in the resolution of this conflict. Based on documentation of both the Portuguese and the Vatican archives, we will try to analyze their roles, and the ways in which the Pope’s envoys tried to act/ acted as real mediators of the conflict.
Communication presented at the Rebellion in Medieval Europe Conference, organised by the Canterbu... more Communication presented at the Rebellion in Medieval Europe Conference, organised by the Canterbury Christ Church University (UK).
O Paço da Alcáçova nos finais da Idade Média: primeiras abordagens
Comunicação apresentada no I Workshop sobre a Alcáçova e o Castelo (24 de Junho de 2015), que lev... more Comunicação apresentada no I Workshop sobre a Alcáçova e o Castelo (24 de Junho de 2015), que levará a uma tese a finalizar em 2016.
O Paço régio da Alcáçova de Lisboa: o estudo de um período de intervenções (1507-1513).
Oradora convidada para Jornadas sobre História da Construção: época medieval e moderna organizada... more Oradora convidada para Jornadas sobre História da Construção: época medieval e moderna organizada pelo Lab2pt - Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal).
Paço da Alcáçova de Lisboa: As memórias de um paço régio através de um livro de despesas (1507-1513).
Plenary lecture presented at Seminário de Estudos Medievais (SEM) - Instituto de Estudos Medievais.
Papers by Diana Martins
Fragmenta Histórica, 2023
1506 [?]
Letters from Bartolomeu de Paiva, the King’s ser- vant, to Afonso Monteiro, concerning t... more 1506 [?]
Letters from Bartolomeu de Paiva, the King’s ser- vant, to Afonso Monteiro, concerning the renovation works that the King ordered to be carried out in the garden and the palaces.
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Thesis Chapters by Diana Martins
to study the medieval Royal Palace of Alcáçova, the prime residence of the medieval
kings in Lisbon, in the context of the construction of the Royal Palace of Ribeira. This
study is based on a book of building accounts produced between 1507 and 1513.
Call for papers by Diana Martins
Summoning this dimension in the relationship with religion, devotional practices, sensibilities and representations, carries a new set of questions and necessarily calls for different knowledge in order to deepen understanding and the interpretation of the relationship between medieval religiosity and their material translations. From the images carved and painted to the buildings edified, from liturgical objects to reliquaries and tombs, from books to personal objects of piety, from temples to the inscription of the various forms of religious life, there are many domains where the relation between materiality and devotion can be a prospect and a problem. It intersects the material, functional, performative and aesthetic dimensions with the different readings it calls for, the cognitive and emotional apprehensions, the representations (erudite and popular) it associates with, the practices that it sustains, the memories that polarize and legitimize, the powers that were affirmed through it. It discloses the diversity of variants such as wealth and social position, more or less literate training, and gender differences.
The colloquium thus aims to be a broad space for debate, both in the plurality of knowledge and in the diversity of sources, historical, geographical and religious contexts (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and other), and in analytical perspectives.
Conference Presentations by Diana Martins
Lisboa, 29 june 2023
In 1319 a civil war broke off in Portugal. With the support of some of the Iberian kings, some of the ecclesiastics and a part of the nobility, the infant and heir to the Portuguese throne, Afonso, rebelled against the king. The growth of Denis’ power in the wider European context, the king’s direct interference on political matters concerning other western kingdoms, and his avowed predilection for his bastard, and his growing hostility towards members of the Church and the nobility, determined the action of his son and dictated the form that the rebellion of the infant against his father was to take, between 1319-1324.
This paper aims to focus on the role that the Pope, as represented by his ambassadors in Portugal, tried to play in the resolution of this conflict. Based on documentation of both the Portuguese and the Vatican archives, we will try to analyze their roles, and the ways in which the Pope’s envoys tried to act/ acted as real mediators of the conflict.
Papers by Diana Martins
Letters from Bartolomeu de Paiva, the King’s ser- vant, to Afonso Monteiro, concerning the renovation works that the King ordered to be carried out in the garden and the palaces.