Academic

This July, NEMUS returned to Leeds for the International Medieval Congress 2025 (IMC 2025), to organise further interdisciplinary activities.This time, a series of three panels was held about the theme Warhorses, under the command of João Nisa and Afonso Soares de Sousa. The sessions were truly international, as they brought together nine speakers hailing from […]

. The 1st Medieval Hunting Meeting, organised by NEMUS jointly with the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM NOVA/FCSH), succeeded in fulfilling its primary purpose of promoting exchange and interdisciplinary debate around the history of the fascinating relationship between humans and canis. This journey through a shared past started with a journey some 8,000 years into […]

at NOVA University Lisbon, 18-19 July 2024 . … In the context of Medieval Europe, what we now classify as canis were divided into two broad groups: domestic and wild – in other words, dog and wolf. The dog (canis lupus familiaris) has almost always been man’s best friend, as a watchful guard, a faithful […]

The Network has had its first public event: a scholarly rendez-vous at the Leeds International Medieval Congress. This was the first edition of Crossing the Branches in Environmental Medieval Studies, an interdisiplinary initiative around a given topic. At this time, attention was gathered around the topic “Living alongside Beasts in Medieval Portugal”. Two papers were […]