This third volume of the Regulation of Trades in Portugal at the end of the Middle Ages, which follows the two previous volumes, concludes the publication of original studies resulting from the Medcrafts project, a research project funded by the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) that ran from 2018 to 2022.

This book comprises a total of 6 chapters, written by members of the project, including studies on Portuguese realities, or comparisons between Portuguese and Italian masters, in addition to two articles that provide an overview of the Castilian and Aragonese cases, respectively, to which is added a detailed study on metrology, contributing to a comparative analysis between different medieval European spaces.

(In Introduction, p. 7)

 

This publication is funded by National Funds through the FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal), within the scope of the MedCrafts Project – Regulation of trades in Portugal at the end of the Middle Ages: 14th and 15th centuries”, Ref. PTDC/HARHIS/31427/2017

Scientific Committee of the MedCrafts Project:
Amélia Aguiar Andrade (NOVA FCSH – IEM),
Arnaldo Sousa Melo (University of Minho – Lab2Pt)
Hermenegildo Fernandes (Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon – CH)
Hermínia Vilar (University of Évora – CIDEHUS)
Joana Sequeira (University of Minho – Lab2Pt)
Luís Miguel Duarte (Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto – CITCEM)
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra – CHSC)

 

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