Contents Editors’ Note ............................................................................................................... 9 Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Maria João Branco Medieval Studies in Portugal: An Overview ......................................................... 11 José Mattoso The Editions of Archival Sources and Documents .............................................. 25 Saul António Gomes Working with Medieval Manuscripts and Records: Palaeography, Diplomatics, Codicology and Sigillography ........................................................ 45 Maria do Rosário Barbosa Morujão Latin and Portuguese in the Middle Ages ............................................................. 67 Paulo Farmhouse Alberto, Rodrigo Furtado, Ana Maria Martins The Study of Literary Texts ..................................................................................... 87 Teresa Amado (coord.), Ângela Correia, Cristina Sobral, Graça Videira Lopes Medieval Music in Portugal Within its Interdisciplinary Context (1940-2010) ............................................................................................... 111 Manuel Pedro Ferreira The Study of Medieval Art .................................................................................... 131 Maria Leonor Botelho The Study of Medieval Art Islamic and Christian Medieval Archaeology ..... 153 Isabel Cristina Ferreira Fernandes, Santiago Macias Central Power: Institutional and Political History in the Thirteenth – Fifteenth Centuries ......................................................................... 179 Armando Luís de Carvalho Homem Municipal Power .................................................................................................... 209 Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho Diplomatic Relations: Portugal and the Others.................................................. 231 Maria João Branco, Mário Farelo Economic and Fiscal History ................................................................................. 261 Filipe Themudo Barata, António Castro Henriques Medieval Portuguese Towns: The Difficult Affirmation of a Historiographical Topic ..................................... 283 Amélia Aguiar Andrade, Adelaide Millán da Costa Half a Century of Rural History of the Middle Ages in Portugal: A Possible Overview ............................................................................................... 303 Luís Carlos Amaral The Church and Religious Practices .................................................................... 323 Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar, Maria de Lurdes Rosa Intellectual History and the Scholars ................................................................... 349 José Francisco Meirinhos Literary and Historiographical Production ....................................................... 381 António Resende de Oliveira The Medieval Portuguese Nobility ....................................................................... 401 José Mattoso, colab. Leontina Ventura, José Augusto de Sottomayor-Pizarro, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa The Military Orders ............................................................................................... 425 Luís Filipe Oliveira, Luís Adão da Fonseca, Maria Cristina Pimenta, Paula Pinto Costa The Medieval Military History .............................................................................. 459 Miguel Gomes Martins, João Gouveia Monteiro Women’s and Gender History................................................................................ 483 Manuela Santos Silva, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues When Those on the Margins Took Centre Stage................................................. 499 Luís Miguel Duarte The History of Everyday Life ................................................................................ 513 Manuel Sílvio Alves Conde From Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages .................................................. 529 Manuel Justino Maciel Islam and Mozarabs ................................................................................................ 547 Hermenegildo Fernandes, António Rei Ethno-Religious Minorities .................................................................................. 571 Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros The Beginnings of the Portuguese Overseas Expansion .................................... 591 João Paulo Oliveira e Costa Syntheses, Guides and States of the Art .............................................................. 607 Judite A. Gonçalves de Freitas List of Abbreviations .............................................................................................. 626 List of Contributors ............................................................................................... 627