MedCrafts | Crafts regulation in Portugal in Late Middle Ages: 14th - 15th centuries

MedCrafts | Crafts regulation in Portugal in Late Middle Ages: 14th - 15th centuries

[PTDC/HAR-HIS/031427/2017]

Description:

This project intends to study the regulations of crafts activities in late medieval Portugal (14th - 15th centuries) of several Portuguese towns, from different regions, in a comparative perspective. The project intends to promote an integrated vision of the regulation systems and the social practices, placing them in their social, economic, legal and political contexts. The project will focus in the relations between craftsmen and public authorities mainly.

Through the analysis of those regulations, control and its social practices we intend to further understand and characterize the reality of crafts and craftsmen activities in medieval Portugal.

It will also contribute to the knowledge about the economic evolution of Portugal in that period, namely the contribution of industrial activities, or the lack of it, to trade and to maritime expansion.

CIDEHUS Researchers:  Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar; Filomena Barros; Joaquim Serra

Funding source:  Portugal 2020/SAICT 

Partners: Lab2PT- University of Minho (Leader) | CIDEHUS-UÉ | FCSH-UNL | University of Coimbra | FL – University of Lisbon | University of Porto

Duration:  2018-2021

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