Gonçalo Melo da Silva
Gonçalo Silva (1989) is a Portuguese researcher in the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM NOVA/FCSH) since 2009, taking part in its Scientific Committee, in Scientific Commission of the Strategic Project and being CO-PI of the project Think big on small frontier towns: Alto Alentejo and Alta Extremadura leonesa (13th - 16th centuries) (PTDC/HAR-HIS/3024/2020), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He holds a PhD in Medieval History and a European Phd from the NOVA University of Lisbon (obtained in 2021, with the maximum classification attributed unanimously). His doctoral thesis investigated the urban network, urban landscape and ports in the Algarve in Late Middle Ages (1249-1521)], having received a FCT grant by the FCT in 2012. He also received his MA in Medieval History (2012) and graduate (2010) from Nova University of Lisbon. He received for his work the Merit scholarship from Nova University of Lisbon (2012) and the Award for Best Master in History by FCSH/Nova University of Lisbon (2013). He did two research stages at University of Cantabria (Spain, 2016, 2019) and on at Leiden University (Netherlands, 2016) and two Erasmus Intensive Programme in Siegen (Germany, 2010, 2011). He has participated in 19 national and international conferences (11 by invitation and 7 by call for papers), and co-organized 8 international conferences, 3 sessions and 3 training schools. He co-organized 1 course ("The Medieval Man") and gave 2 conferences for the general public. He co-edited 3 books and 1 thematic issue in Lusitania Sacra (a peer-reviewed journal on SCOPUS, in press) and co-write 1 article and 2 book chapters. He also published 2 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 9 book chapters. He participates and/or participated in 12 national and international (Spain, Netherlands, European Union) projects and is member of the FCSH-NOVA UNESCO Chair 'The Ocean's Cultural Heritage'. He is a member of the Management Committee, core grup and co-cordinator of the Think Tank and Training Schools at COST Action Worlds of Related Coercions in Work since 2019. He has a broad interest in various fields ranging from medieval history, maritime history, urban history, religious history and history of Portugal in the later Middle Ages to the Digital Humanities, especially Historical GIS, and Science Communication.
Supervisors: Amélia Aguiar Andrade
Supervisors: Amélia Aguiar Andrade
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Recorrendo a uma pluralidade de idiomas que nos apraz registar -português, espanhol, francês e inglês- os seus estudos têm como espaço de observação uma diversidade de unidades políticas medievais que hoje integram as historiografias de Portugal, Espanha, França, Itália, Países Baixos, Bélgica e Alemanha, com especial relevo para os diferentes reinos medievais ibéricos, sendo que neste último caso o enfoque não se limita à Cristandade, pois também podemos dispor de reflexões que têm como espaço de observação o Islão peninsular e/ou as suas permanências. Available in: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/85066
The governance of Loulé in the Late Middle Ages: municipal offices, elections and the men in power Abstract. Some European historiographies, such as Spanish, Portuguese and Belgian, have made municipal power a privileged object of study. In Portugal, the municipal positions of small and medium-sized towns and the men who occupied them are still a promising field of analysis, but the documentary resources available do not always allow for their in-depth study, something that fortunately does not occur in the Algarve, especially in Loulé. Thus, I will study the organisational structure of this municipality, the elections and recruitment of municipal officers, the attempts of other powers to influence these practices and the sociological profile of the individuals who occupied these positions, in order to contribute to a better understanding of these realities in the small towns of medieval Portugal.
A prelate in times of reform: the career of Afonso Nogueira (1399-1464)
Abstract: There is a deficiency of studies on the reformists of 15th century Portugal. Their individual trajectories and proposals to reform religious life are difficult to assess from the work available on the episcopate and the religious orders of Portugal, besides the relations between this country and the papacy. This paper contributes to a better understanding of these issues through an examination of the life of Dom Afonso Nogueira, a founding member of the Congregação de São João Evangelista, bishop of Coimbra (1453-1460) and later archbishop of Lisbon (1460- 1464). This analysis enables an observation of how family, social placing and Church reform variously emerged as determining factors in different stages of Nogueira’s life.
SILVA, Gonçalo Melo da, “Um prelado em tempos de reformas: o percurso de D. Afonso Nogueira (1399-1464) ”, Lusitânia Sacra, 2ª Série, tomo 33: Mobilidades Medievais: Carreiras, Projectos, Realizações, (Janeiro-Julho 2016), pp. 161-202. ISSN: 0076-1508.
Recorrendo a uma pluralidade de idiomas que nos apraz registar -português, espanhol, francês e inglês- os seus estudos têm como espaço de observação uma diversidade de unidades políticas medievais que hoje integram as historiografias de Portugal, Espanha, França, Itália, Países Baixos, Bélgica e Alemanha, com especial relevo para os diferentes reinos medievais ibéricos, sendo que neste último caso o enfoque não se limita à Cristandade, pois também podemos dispor de reflexões que têm como espaço de observação o Islão peninsular e/ou as suas permanências. Available in: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/85066
The governance of Loulé in the Late Middle Ages: municipal offices, elections and the men in power Abstract. Some European historiographies, such as Spanish, Portuguese and Belgian, have made municipal power a privileged object of study. In Portugal, the municipal positions of small and medium-sized towns and the men who occupied them are still a promising field of analysis, but the documentary resources available do not always allow for their in-depth study, something that fortunately does not occur in the Algarve, especially in Loulé. Thus, I will study the organisational structure of this municipality, the elections and recruitment of municipal officers, the attempts of other powers to influence these practices and the sociological profile of the individuals who occupied these positions, in order to contribute to a better understanding of these realities in the small towns of medieval Portugal.
A prelate in times of reform: the career of Afonso Nogueira (1399-1464)
Abstract: There is a deficiency of studies on the reformists of 15th century Portugal. Their individual trajectories and proposals to reform religious life are difficult to assess from the work available on the episcopate and the religious orders of Portugal, besides the relations between this country and the papacy. This paper contributes to a better understanding of these issues through an examination of the life of Dom Afonso Nogueira, a founding member of the Congregação de São João Evangelista, bishop of Coimbra (1453-1460) and later archbishop of Lisbon (1460- 1464). This analysis enables an observation of how family, social placing and Church reform variously emerged as determining factors in different stages of Nogueira’s life.
SILVA, Gonçalo Melo da, “Um prelado em tempos de reformas: o percurso de D. Afonso Nogueira (1399-1464) ”, Lusitânia Sacra, 2ª Série, tomo 33: Mobilidades Medievais: Carreiras, Projectos, Realizações, (Janeiro-Julho 2016), pp. 161-202. ISSN: 0076-1508.
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The location of medieval hospitals and shelters, institutions dedicated to sheltering the poor, sick and pilgrims, considered marginal social groups, indicate how society included or excluded the needy people in their daily life. From this premise, the purpose of this study is to show how the hospitals were included in the urban, social, religious and political aspects of medieval Coimbra. We will focus in implantation area of this charity establishments in Coimbra’s urban area, to understand how they relate with the walls, road network and places of passage, like gateways and bridges, that made Coimbra’s urban landscape. This analysis will allow us to understand how several identified hospitals and equivalent institutions occupied the urban space during the medieval period and how they clustered. It’s also our objective to understand the impact that charity institutions had in the city, particularly in the toponomy. The medieval hospitals spatial distribution in Coimbra, perfectly adapted to their client base, is essential to evaluate the poor people’s integration in the urban context and their interaction with the rest of society.
Em 1249, a conquista dos últimos bastiões do poder muçulmano no Algarve marcou simbolicamente o encerramento do processo de Reconquista no reino português e o início do aprofundamento das estratégias levadas a cabo pela Coroa a fim de reorganizar o território do reino e, por conseguinte, fortalecer o exercício da sua autoridade, na qual as vilas, sobretudo as portuárias e as suas receitas fiscais desempenham um papel fundamental. O presente estudo pretende contribuir para esclarecer a estratégia desenvolvida pela Coroa para enquadrar e reforçar o seu poder no Algarve através da fundação de uma rede urbana portuária, composta por vilas de pequena e média dimensão. Nesse sentido, procuraremos apresentar as primeiras impressões de investigação sobre a correlação entre os aspetos geográficos que as condicionavam e as estratégias dos poderes em presença e o papel que tal teve no seu desenvolvimento e articulação.
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In 1249, the conquest of the last bastions of the Muslim power in the Algarve symbolically marked the end of the Reconquista in the Portuguese kingdom and the reinforce of the strategies carried out by the Crown in order to reorganize the territory of the kingdom and, therefore, strengthen the exercise of its authority, in which towns, especially port twons and their tax revenues play a key role. This study intends to contribute to clarify the strategy developed by the Crown to frame and reinforce its power in the Algarve through the foundation of an urban network composed by small and medium sized port towns. In this sense, I will try to present the first research impressions on the correlation between the geographical aspects that conditioned them and the strategies of the powers in presence and the role that this had in their development and articulation.
SILVA, Gonçalo Melo, “A Coroa, as vilas e o mar: A Rede Urbana Portuária do Algarve (1249-1325) ”, in COSTA, Adelaide Millán; ANDRADE, Amélia Aguiar e TENTE, Catarina (coord.), O papel das pequenas cidades na construção da Europa medieval, Lisboa, IEM, Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide, pp. 547-575. ISBN: 978-989-99567-7-3 (IEM), 978-972-9040-14-6 (Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide).
A base de dados foi concebida para poder ser realizada uma busca cruzada múltipla entre os vários campos, permitindo enriquecer a exploração dos dados inseridos nos distintos campos e consequente, logrando-se a obtenção de um esmiuçar mais aprofundado do texto do inquérito
L'importance de ce thème impliquait son choix pour les Journées internationales de Castelo de Vide qui se dérouleront à Castelo de Vide en 2020. Ayant pour cadre géographique l'Europe chrétienne et islamique, elle se propose d’analyser les différents problèmes engendrés par le gouvernement urbain, moyennant la contribution de sources d’information variées et cherchant toujours à ce que les perspectives comprennent l’histoire, l’archéologie, l’histoire de l’art, la littérature, le droit, entre autres.
La importancia de esta temática conllevó su elección para las Jornadas internacionales de Castelo de Vide que tendrán lugar en Castelo de Vide en 2020. Teniendo como espacio de observación la Europa cristiana e islámica, se pretende analizar las distintas problemáticas generadas por la gobernanza urbana recurriendo a variadas fuentes de información, dentro de perspectivas que comprenden la Historia, la Arqueología, la Historia del Arte, la Literatura o el Derecho, entre otros.
The importance of this theme justified its selection for the International Conference on the Middle Ages that will take place in Castelo de Vide in 2020. Taking Christian and Muslim medieval Europe as the stage for reflexion, we wish to analyse the different issues generated by urban governance, drawing on diverse information sources and looking for ways to bring together perspectives from History, Archaeology, Art History, Literature, Law, among others.
1200–1600. Lisbon, 25-26 October 2018
In the Middle Ages, maritime conict has developed hand in hand with international trade. Over time, specic institutions were established to address disputes arising from violence or mishap at sea and in coastal areas. Recent historiography emphasises that late-medieval merchants, together with consuetudinary law and common legal practices, relied on the legal autonomy of municipal governments to resolve maritime and commercial conicts. For highly urbanised areas like the Low Countries, it has been argued that urban legal autonomy played a decisive role in inter-urban competition to attract foreign merchants, thus stimulating economic growth in the most successful cities.
However, in other regions of Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula and in England for instance, the situation was dierent. Certain cities – like Lisbon and London – rose to dominance without facing competition from other cities. Some of these cities were highly dependent, from a judicial standpoint, from the crown’s intricate bureaucracy. So, how were maritime conicts resolved in port cities under the authority and control of central governments or the crown? And how to explain that places not involved in urban competition, which sometimes lacked autonomy in judicial matters, could economically expand? In addition, the role of central governments in highly urbanised regions, including the Italian city states and the Low Countries, will also be discussed from the perspective of maritime conict management. is seminar on Central Governments and the Resolution of Maritime Conflicts, 1200–1600 aims at exploring these questions in a broad, comparative perspective, by looking at how disputes were managed and settled both in Atlantic Europe, more specically in the Iberian Peninsula, and around the Mediterranean in the later Middle Ages.
Pretende-se criar um espaço de debate e de troca de experiências no qual os alunos possam aprofundar conhecimentos e competências, usufruindo da presença de especialistas de renome, provenientes de prestigiadas universidades, e promovendo um olhar interdisciplinar sobre o tema escolhido.
A Escola de Outono estrutura-se em torno sessões teóricas seguidas de espaços de debate, ateliers de investigação com um carácter eminentemente prático e uma visita de estudo ao Centro Histórico de Castelo de Vide.
Os alunos poderão ainda apresentar os seus temas de investigação e metodologias de trabalho em formato de póster para serem discutidos durante a Escola, numa sessão dedicada ao efeito. A impressão dos pósters será oferecida pela organização.
As línguas da Escola são o português, o espanhol e o inglês.