Hypothesising Human-Animal Relations in Medieval Portugal

Formulando o relacionamento entre humanos e outras espécies em Portugal medieval

An exploratory project to tackle key issues in medieval environmental, cultural and animal studies.

Project FALCO’s main premise is to search the potential for multidisciplinary investigation on the relationship between humans and other species in medieval Portugal. This we will achieve via a second premise, which is to look closely at the historical human links with one specific group of animals, known as raptors or birds of prey.

A team of linguists, archaeologists, historians, art historians, literary scholars, geographers, ethnographers, and teachers, we take a fresh look at well-known primary sources, employing established approaches from within the Arts and Humanities, in order to learn what these can tell us about human-animal relations, and the type of questions that we should be asking. This will help us determine the potential as well as the boundaries of given types of historical materials in tandem with the approach(es) used. Through exploration and sustained debate, we aim to come at a strong methodological foundation for the broad-ranging, cross-disciplinary investigation of medieval human-animal relations, set to work widely across subjects.

Principal investigator:  Tiago Viúla de Faria

Co-PI:   Rémy Cordonnier

Research scholar:  Afonso Soares de Sousa

Researchers: Alice Tavares, Ana Paiva Morais, Ana Sirgado, André Oliveira da Silva, Carlos Pimenta, Diana Neves Martins,  Fabio Barberini, Filipa Ferreira Soares, Filipe Alves Moreira, Hélder Carvalhal, Joana Ramôa Melo, Sónia Gomes

Advisers: Aleks Pluskowski, Baudouin van den Abeele, José Manuel Fradejas

IEM support staff: Ricardo Cordeiro, Carlos Moreira, Beatriz Gil

Web design: SICA CREATIVE

Acknowledgements: Adelaide Miranda, Amélia Álvaro de Campos, Ana Marques, Ana Raquel Roque, Catarina Barreira, Catarina Tente, Elisabete Pires, Luís Correia de Sousa, Paulo Catarino Lopes, Pedro Pinto, Ricardo Miguel Godinho, Roger Lee de Jesus, Rui Pedro Neves — thank you for supporting the Project!

FCT EXPL/HAR-HIS/1135/2021

Contact Us:  FALCO, Instituto de Estudos Medievais. Colégio Almada Negreiros. Campus Campolide NOVA, 1099-085 Lisbon Portugal

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