This chapter focuses on the costs of clothing in the kingdom of Portugal during the 13th and 14th centuries, to provide an understanding of how costly garments could be and the ratio of expenditure they represented for different social groups.
The Royal Textile Factory of Covilhã, founded in 1764, is the perfect example of the Portuguese Industrial and Cultural Heritage. Despite its historical significance, comprehensive studies on the dyeing techniques employed in the 18th century remain scarce. Given the influence of French technology on Portuguese wool production, this study presents a comparative analysis of French and Spanish dyeing recipes to u...
Apresenta-se o programa e o livro de resumos do workshop «Práticas na Paisagem no IN2PAST», coordenado por Marta Labastida, Rebeca Blanco-Rotea, Bernardo Providência, Carlos Leal Gomes, Carlos Maia, Cidália Silva, Hélder Lopes, Joana Sequeira, Jorge Ribeiro e Natacha Moutinho. Este workshop está relacionado com a preparação do congresso "Uncertain Landscapes II", promovido pelo Laboratório de Paisagem, Patrimón...
Partindo do núcleo de documentação municipal, complementado com outras fontes esparsas, neste artigo procura-se perceber quem eram os mesteirais do têxtil e do vestuário em Loulé, nos finais da Idade Média, que produtos fabricavam e ‘com que linhas se cosiam’, isto é, como é que as suas atividades profissionais eram regulamentadas e fiscalizadas e qual era o seu estatuto económico e social. A análise incide mai...
Textiles as man-made products have been exchanged over distances for millennia. They can and have been produced almost anywhere; they are also, as a product, highly differentiated and quickly adjustable to changing demands. This brings with it naming practices to communicate about the goods in question. Textiles are labeled so that people can form expectations about them and rely on the reputation tied to the p...
One of the research areas of the EuroWeb project during the four years of the COST Action (November 2020 – October 2024) is the comparative study of textile and clothing terminologies in European languages across time. Inside the EuroWeb network, the research group on Textile and clothing terminologies has three topics of particular interest: 1. the specificities of these terminologies, and the strategies for n...
Introduction and objectives: Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Dapagliflozin has proven efficacy in reducing the risk of death and hospitalization in HF patients, regardless of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). This paper aimed to project the potential impact of dapagliflozin on healthcare costs related to HF subsequent hos...
This article analyzes some of the oldest historical sources regarding the production of linen fabrics in the lands of Guimarães. Based on sample analyses, we seek to determine the percentage of men and women who dedicated themselves to the activities of spinning, weaving, shearing and clothing making. Finally, some of these craftsmen are approached via brief news relating to unusual events during their life pat...
This study aimed to analyze the perception that university students have of the functioning of their families, to characterize their personal social network and to study the relations between these variables. The sample consisted of 247 university students, aged between 17 and 55, who completed the Flexibility and Family Cohesion Assessment Scale version IV and the Instrumento de Análise da Rede Social Pessoal....
This article examines an inventory of documents of the municipal archive of Elvas (Portugal) made in 1432 and that was included in the sole surviving medieval account book of the town. It also provides, in Appendix, the full transcription of this account book. The study starts by discussing the circumstances of production of this inventory and its objectives, followed by an analysis of the description of the do...