About

Researcher affiliated with the University of Turku, Finland.

Education

Ph.D in European and World History by the University of Turku (Finland)

Master in History of the Middle Ages by the University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Bachelor in Archeology and History by the University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Blog Posts

    Publications

    “Mixed Marriages, Moorish Vices and Military Betrayals: Christian-Islamic Confluence in Count D. Pedro’s Book of Lineages”, in Conflict and Collaboration in Medieval Iberia, edited by Kim Bergqvist, Kurt Villads Jensen and Anthony John Lappin, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

    “The Reconquista revisited: mobilising medieval Iberian history in Spain, Portugal and beyond”, in The Crusades in the Modern World, edited by Mike Horswell and Akil N. Awan, Routledge, 2019.

    “Christians and Muslims in the Medieval Portuguese Chronicles: Political Uses of the Memories of the Reconquista and D. Afonso Henriques”, in Transcultural Encounters, eds. Kari Alenius and Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Studia Historica Septentrionalia 75, Rovaniemi,  Historical Association of Northern Finland, 2015, pp. 229-242.

    “Chronicle-Composition in Medieval Portugal: A General Outline”, Mirator, 15:1 (2014), Helsinki, Glossa ry.

    “Os feitos de D. Fuas Roupinho na Crónica de 1419”, Revista Portuguesa de História, Tomo 43 (2012), pp. 91-104.

    “Contributos para a história medieval de Almeida e do seu castelo (séculos VIII-XIII)”, CEAMA- Revista do Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura Militar de Almeida, Almeida, Câmara Municipal de Almeida, 2012, pp. 60-75.

    As metamorfoses de um guerreiro: Afonso Henriques na cronística medieval, Master’s dissertation, Coimbra: [s.n.], 2011.

    PAPERS PRESENTED IN ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

    “‘They burnt them in the streets of the city three days on end’: the massacre of ‘New Christians’ in Lisbon, 1506”, research paper presented at the workshop “From Words to Deeds? Hostile Rhetoric and Violence Against Minorities in Premodern Europe,” Tampere, Finland, 14.12.2023.

    The Archother: Muslim Otherness in Fourteenth-Century Portuguese Aristocratic Genealogical Memory”, research paper presented in the workshop Muhammad and Islam in Medieval Christian Cultural Memory, Helsinki, 14.10.2017

    “Shifting Otherness: Aristocratic Notions of Alterity in Fourteenth-Century Portugal”, research paper presented in the International Medieval Congress 2017, Leeds, 3-6 July 2017.

    “Intercultural Marriages and Moorish Vices: Christian-Islamic Confluence in Count D. Pedro’s Book of Lineages”, research paper presented in the symposium Historians of Medieval Iberia: Enemies and Friends, Stockholm, 14-16 March 2016.

    “The Conflict against Islam in Medieval Portuguese Genealogical Literature: a War of Expansion or Restoration?”, research paper presented in the International Medieval Congress 2015, Leeds, 6-9 July 2015.

    “The Past in Service to Lineage: The War against Islam in Medieval Portuguese Aristocratic Genealogical Literature”, research paper presented in the international conference Nobility Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the European Aristocracy, Jyväskylä, June 10-12, 2015.

    “Christians and Moors in the Medieval Portuguese Chronicles: Political Uses of the Memories of the Reconquista and D. Afonso Henriques”, research paper presented in the Transcultural Encounters Symposium, Oulu, Finland, December 12-13, 2013.

    “Chronicle-Composition in Medieval Portugal: A General Outline”, research paper presented in the conference Dies Medievales 2012: “Books, Writing, and Literary Culture in Medieval Europe”, Turku, Finland, 26-27 October 2012.

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