What our researchers do

On 30^th and 31^st November 2025, Clara Renedo attended the "VII Seminari d'Estudis Hagiogràfics. La santedat en clau femenina" with the conference "Recepció de la literatura hagiogràfica femenina llatina. El cas de la Catedral de Barcelona (s. XIV-XV)". The congress was organized by Departament de Filologia Catalana (Universitat d'Alacant).

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Flocel Sabaté is one of the authors of the volume II "The Cambridge Urban History of Europe. Medieval and Early Modern Europe" edited by Patrick Lantschner and Maarten Prak, Cambridge University Press.

All contributors: Patrick Lantschner,Maarten Prak, Caroline Goodson, Christopher P. Loveluck, Andrea Zorzi, Fabrizio Nevola, Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Eneko López Martínez de Marigorta, Flocel Sabaté, Grigor Boykov, Jelle Haemers, Marjolein 't Hart, Phil Withington, Boris Bove, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz, Sofia Gustafsson, Stefan Ehrenpreis, Katalin Szende, Vera S. Candiani, Zoltán Biedermann, Manuel Herrero Sánchez, Martina Stercken, Norbert Nussbaum, Colin Arnaud, Marco Folin, Jan de Vries, Georg Christ, Klaus Weber, Bert De Munck, Peter Stabel, Bruno Blondé, Jessica Dijkman, G. Geltner, Willem Frijhoff, Clare Haru Crowston, Christian D. Liddy, Miri Rubin, Graeme Murdock, Manon van der Heijden, Regula Schmid, Curtis G. Murphy, Ulrich Pfister.

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Last 16^th October, Isaac Lampurlanés was at Universidade de Lisboa, in the congress IX Congresso Internacional de Latim Medieval Hispanico talking about André Dias de Escobar's (XV century) work 'De publicatione haeresum contentarum in Talmud'.

Last 15^th October, Flocel Sabaté was invited to the Economy and Finance Committee of the Parlament de Catalunya to talk about the economic situation of Catalonia in the Middle Ages.

On 26 September 2025, Flocel Sabaté, Gemma Carnisé and Martí Vilamajó, members of our research group, participated in a working meeting of the ROMTUR project at the Université Perpignan Via Domitia. 

You can follow all the latest news about the project "ROMTUR: Innovación digital para poner en valor el patrimonio románico poco conocido e impulsar el desarrollo turístico de zonas poco dinamizadas" on its website.

On 10 and 11 September 2025, Isaac Lampurlanés, Clara Renedo and Sergi Tella participated in the "Early Career Workshop of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ibero-Mediävistik" on "Current Approaches and Challenges in Medieval Iberian Studies", organized by The Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) at the The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), in Wien, Austria.

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Our group member, Sergi Rexach, attended the "XXII Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas", organized by Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, 16-17 June in Salamanca, Spain.

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Sergi Rexach, attended the "II Escola Doctoral d'Estiu sobre la Corona d'Aragó" with the paper "Entre el delicte i la veritat. La indagació judicial al tribunal episcopal gironí (segles XIII-XV)". This meeting was organized by Associació d'Historiadors de la Corona d'Aragó-HISCOAR and Càtedra UB d'Estudis del Renaixement Molins de Rei.

Flocel Sabaté attended the congress "Pervivencia y Metamorfosis del Mundo Medieval en el Imaginario Moderno" with the closing conference "La Edad Media en la construcción del ciudadano ideal (Siglos XIX-XX)". The congress was organized by the research group "Grupo de Investigación IHA (Iconografía e Historia del Arte)" of the Universitat Jaume I.

Sergi Rexach participated in the "XXII Coloquio Internacional del Centro de Historia del Crimen de Durango: «La construcción de la paz: mecanismos de resolución de conflictos a través de la Historia", organized by Centro de Historia del Crimen in Durango.  

Our research group celebrates the graduation of Sergi Tella Pàmies, who defended his doctoral thesis: "Conquista y articulación social de la frontera carolingia en el noreste de la Península Ibérica (siglos VIII-IX)", supervised by Dr. Flocel Sabaté Curull (Universitat de Lleida) and Amancio Isla Frez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). Congratulations!

Sergi Tella did a research stay in Universitat de les Illes Balears. During his stay, he did the seminar "Marcha nostra custodienda est terra marique. La Mediterrània occidental a l'alta edat mitjana" at Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca. 

Nuria Preixens, Sergi Rexach, Sergi Tella and Sara Ubach attended the "Seminario del Programa de Doctorado 'Patrimonio, Sociedades y Espacios de Frontera'" organized by Campus Iberus in Lleida.

Members of our research group participated at the European Researchers' Night (Friday, 20 September 2024). We participated in this event in the following activities: 

Poster "Menjar a l'Edat Mitjana. Com? On? Qui?" by Nuria Preixens. 

Poster "La jurisdicció eclesiàstica com a mecanisme identitari del clergat" by Sergi Rexach.

Workshop "Investigar les identitats a l'Edat Mitjana. Una mirada des de Catalunya i la Corona d'Aragó" by Rogerio R. Tostes, Sergi Tella, Carlos Crespo and Sara Ubach.

They presented the research they are carrying out in the framework of the project "Collective identities and group solidarities in the late Middle Ages" (PID2022-136257NB-I00).

Presentation of the project "ROMTUR-Innovación digital para poner en valor patrimonio románico poco conocido e impulsar el desarrollo turístico de zonas poco dinamizadas" (EFA065/01 INTERREG POCTEFA) at the EUROPE'S CORNER, by Rogerio R. Tostes and Gemma Carnisé.

The experience was good and we were satisfied with our participation.

Flocel Sabaté and Luciano Gallinari, attended the International Congress “Past, Present, Future 2024: Rituals, ceremonies and símbols in the Middle Ages. Croatia and the European Context (800-1600)” organized from 5 to 7 September in Pula, Croatia.

Jordi Bolós has published two articles in the dossier ‘Water and landscape history in the Crown of Aragon’ in the journal Agua y Territorio, edited by Universidad de Jaén. The Journal is available in Open Access here.