IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 718: Networking Religion and Diplomacy in Medieval Portugal

Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova Lisboa
Organisers:	Paulo Catarino Lopes, Instituto de Estudos Medievais / Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa João Luís Fontes, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Moderator/Chair:	Tiago Viúla de Faria, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Paper 718-a	Linking Italy and Portugal: Networks of Power and Reform around Gomes Eanes, the Abbot of Florence, 1419-1441 (Language: English) Paulo Catarino Lopes, Instituto de Estudos Medievais / Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life
Paper 718-b	Formal and Informal Networks: The Portuguese Diplomatic Panorama during the Reign of King Dinis, 1279-1325 (Language: English) Diana Martins, Instituto de Estudos Medievais Universidade Nova de Lisboa Index terms: Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 718-c	Lay Patronage and the Networks of Religious Renewal in Portugal, 14th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Filomena Pimentel de Carvalho Andrade, Universidade Aberta, Lisboa João Luís Fontes, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life
Abstract	The notion of networks reveals itself as an operative concept for the study of relationships which not only structure solidarities, consolidate the influences and strengthen the ties of dependence and power, but also enable the circulation and dissemination of ideas, people, texts, models. Thus, they favour contacts and exchanges and structure new forms of relationship and belonging (social, religious, political, economic). Taking the Portuguese reality of the late Middle Ages as a starting point, this session seeks to demonstrate how these networks acted, both in terms of diplomacy and in the dissemination and sponsorship of new proposals for religious renewal, allowing the integration of an apparently peripheral space into the heart of the political and religious world of the medieval West, in its debates and tensions and new forms of Christian spirituality.