In addition to the optional curricular units offered as part of the course, the student can choose to take a UC from among those provided in the doctoral courses at NOVA FCSH and UAb, or at foreign universities with which protocols have been established under the Erasmus+ programme.

Curricular units offered as part of the course in the 2025-2026 academic year (1st Semester):

- As Dinastias de Trastâmara e Avis: entre a política e a cultura / Las dinastías Trastámara y Avís: entre la política y la cultura / The Trastâmara and Avis dynasties: between politics and culture (UC lecionada em Espanhol)

- Pequenas Cidades Medievais – Um objeto de estudo indefinido? / Medieval Small Towns - An undefined object of study?

Synopsis:

The seminar ‘The Trastâmara and Avis dynasties: between politics and culture’ aims to awaken students\' interest in comparative and multidisciplinary studies, focusing on the study of the cultural and dynastic policies promoted by the monarchs of the last centuries of the Middle Ages in Castile and Portugal. This theme seems particularly fruitful because both the Avis and Trastâmara dynasties devoted great effort to creating a legitimising discourse that articulated political, cultural, and artistic actions.

Teachers:

César Olivera Serrano (CSIC - Madrid) - https://www.csic.es/es/investigación/investigadorescesar-olivera-serrano

Isabel Beceiro Pita (CSIC – Madrid) - https://www.cchs.csic.es/en/personal/isabel-beceiro-pita

María Teresa Chicote Pompanin (UNED e CSIC-Madrid) - https://www.ucm.es/historiadelarte/maria-teresa-chicote-pompanin

Curricular Unit taught under protocol with CSIC-Madrid

The seminar ‘Small Medieval Towns - An undefined object of study?’ focuses on small towns and villages in the Middle Ages in Portugal, exploring both their definition criteria and the methodologies used to analyse them by various disciplines, considering the different geopolitical contexts in which they are located.

Teacher: Adelaide Millán Costa - https://paginapessoal.uab.pt/acosta