Contributing to a deeper understanding of women's role throughout history is one of the bases for a more integrated and insightful knowledge of the past. Bearing this principle in mind, this paper aims to identify and discuss the female contribution to promoting a new religiosity among pilgrimage and socio-charitable programmes during the 12th-14th centuries. These programmes were developed in the context of re...
Reflecting on the possibility of reconstructing archives and creating institutional memories is always a challenging exercise, greatly beneficial to historians by providing deeper insights into the past. The archival collection of the Order of St John of Jerusalem was gradually assembled, meeting the administrative, jurisdictional, and gov-ernance needs of this complex institution. From the 14th century onward,...
The Military Orders are the most singular institutions regarding the relation between church, powers, and the territory, namely in the medieval times. Having in mind the role played by the Military Orders within the so-called Reconquest process, and within the Mediterranean world, as a special space of coexistence of different ethnicities and faiths, and the complex relationship between Portugal and Latin East ...
The historiography of the crusade and reconquest in the Iberian Peninsula, and Portugal in particular, dates from the beginning of the twentieth century. Since the 1920s, it has been assumed that the reconquest was an output of the crusade in the Iberian West due to the so-called "Bull of Crusade" given to Portugal. The "idea of the Crusade" in Portugal was enhanced by Carl Erdmann in the 1930s and 1940s. This ...