PROGRAM (provisional)

15 October 2026

Porto, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Meeting Room 1

- 9:00 – 9:30: Registration of participants

- 9:30 – 10:00: Opening of the first day of the colloquium

- 10:00 – 10:30: Keynote Speaker – Maria Josefa Sanz Fuentes (Profesora Catedrática Jubilada, Universidad de Oviedo): Nuevas perspectivas sobre un tema clásico: Las cancillerías reales de los antiguos reinos de León y Castilla

- 10:30 – 11:15: Papers and Discussion

Meeting Room 1

Session: Chanceries as Centres of Power (I)

• Philippa Byrne (Associate Professor in History; University of Oxford): Continuity and Change in Twelfth-Century Sicilian Documents
• Philipp T. Wollmann (University of Klagenfurt): The Crown’s impact? Changes and Continuities in Charters after the emergence of new kingdoms

- 11:15 – 11:30: Coffee Break

- 11:30 – 12:45: Parallel Sessions and Discussion

Meeting Room 1

Session: The Practical Management of the Chancery

• Vedran Sulovsky (Humboldt Research Fellow, Historisches Seminar; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): The Imperial Court Chapel and Chancery in the Twelfth Century
• Maximiliano Chaiben Etchepare Guerra (Master of Arts Student; School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon): Overview of the diplomatic production of Sancho II’s chancery (1238-1248)
• Anders Leegaard Knudsen (Senior Editor, Diplomatarium Danicum, Society for Danish Language and Literature): The Royal Chancery in Denmark until c. 1300
• Iris Palenik (Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW); Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO): How Many Chanceries Does the Emperor Need? Reconstructing the Secretarial Culture of Maximilian I (1493-1519)

Meeting Room 2

Session: The Organisation of Documents and Archives

• Daniel Piñol (Profesor Titular de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas; Universitat de Barcelona); Jordi Saura (Investigador; Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals, Universitat de Barcelona): Los registros de la cancillería real y la prosopografía de los notarios en la Corona de Aragón (siglos XIII-XV). Algunos aspectos metodológicos
• Francisco Javier Crespo Muñoz (Professor Ayudante Doctor; Técnico de Archivos del Estado Universidad de Valladolid): El registro del sello de corte en época de los Reyes Católicos: perspectivas archivísticas y diplomáticas para la preservación de la memoria cancilleresca
• Robin Waeytens (PhD student; Ghent University): Living archives: record-keeping, political identity, and dynastic memory in medieval Flanders (14th-16th centuries)
• Roger Lee de Jesus (Post-PhD researcher, Leibniz Universität Hannover): A royal chancery in the other side of the world: the Torre do Tombo of Goa (India) and the bureaucratic structure of the Portuguese Empire in Asia (16th–17th centuries)

- 12:45 – 14:30: Lunch

- 14:30 – 15:15: Parallel Sessions and Discussion

Meeting Room 1

Session: Chanceries as Centres of Power (II)

• Alejo Albares Villalba (PhD student; Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Del Privilegio Rodado a las Cartas de Privilegio (y Confirmación). Nuevas aportaciones a las tipologías documentales regias de carácter solemne (1454-1474)
• Selim Bezeraj (Associate Professor; University of Prishtina): From Chancery to Bureaucracy: Documentary Practices and Royal Authority in Albania under Zog I of Albania (1928–1939)

Meeting Room 2

Session: Types of Royal Acts

• Bernhard Zeller (Deputy Head of the Department of Text Edition and Source Studies; Institute for Medieval, Austrian Academy of Sciences Research): Chancery or Not? Charter Production under the Lombard Dukes and Princes of Benevento and Salerno (8th-9th centuries)
• Olivier Canteaut (École nationale des chartes): Les actes du roi de France et leurs lettres d’attache, un outil de l’administration par l’écrit au XIVe siècle

- 15:15 – 15:30: Coffee Break

- 15:30 – 16h30: Parallel Sessions and Discussion

Meeting Room 1

Session: Chanceries as Centres of Power (III)

• Diego Belmonte Fernández (Profesor Titular; Universidad de Sevilla): Aquel malo tirano que se llamaba Rey. La Cancillería Real de Castilla entre Pedro I “de Borgoña” (1350-1369) y Enrique II “de Trastámara” (1369-1379)
• Ana Margarida Miranda Milhinhos Monteiro (Master’s in History of Middle Ages; University of Coimbra): Entre norma y práctica: los escribanos en las aljamas judías portuguesas a través de las cancillerías regias (siglos XIV-XV)
• Juan Luis Albentosa Aja (Profesor contratado para sustituciones; Universidad de Murcia): La construcción de la cancillería de un rey pretendiente al trono de Castilla: la cancillería de Alfonso de Ávila (1465-1468).

Meeting Room 2

Session: Relationships and Influences between Chanceries

• Franziska Quaas (Projekt „Regesta Imperii“. Abteilung „Herrscherregesten des Frühmittelalters“): Fränkische Formelsammlungen als Textvorlagen? Praktiken der Textproduktion in den Urkunden Karls des Großen
• Mark Mersiowsky (Full professor of Medieval History; University of Stuttgart): The Disappearance of the Ruler's Chancellery, or The Overcoming of Theodor Sickel
• Zarko Vujosevic (Faculty of Humanities, Department of Digital Humanities University of Graz; Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History; University of Belgrade): The “royal chancery” in medieval Serbia: Between (occasional) court scribal service and recipients

- 16:30 – 17:00: Coffee Break

- 17:00 – 18:00: Parallel Sessions and Discussion

Meeting Room 1

Session: Chanceries as Centres of Power (III) (cont.)

• Maria Cristina Cunha (Associate Professor; Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto; CITCEM); Maria João O. Silva (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto; CITCEM); Ricardo Seabra (Assistant Professor, Autónoma University (UAL); CIDEHUS - UAL): Between appointment and practice: the notarial role in the diplomas of medieval Portuguese royal chanceries (14th-15th century)
• Maria Beatriz Matos (Master’s student in History of Middle Ages; contributor researcher at the CHSC): Royal letters of appointment for notaries in the records of the Chancellery of King João II
• Margarita Gómez Gómez (Profesora Catedrática de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas; Universidad de Sevilla): La Cancillería Real Castellana en el Antiguo Régimen: multiplicación y consecuencias documentales

Meeting Room 2

Session: Relationships and Influences between Chanceries (cont.)

• Karl Borchardt (Retired Professor; University of Würzburg): New Kings and New Chanceries? The Cases of Aragon in 1463 and Bohemia in 1469
• Ronald Kurt Salzer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research - Department Text Edition and Source Studies – MIR): Pledges, Power, and Paper: Ferdinand I’s Gedenkbücher and the Mimetic Management of Maximilian I’s Diplomatic Memory
• Néstor Vigil Montes (Profesor Titular; Universidad de Murcia): El documento de poder para el nombramiento de embajadores, ejemplo de interferencias e influencias mutuas entre las diversas cancillerías regias del Occidente bajomedieval.

- 18:00: Closing of the first day of the colloquium

16 October 2026

Coimbra, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Anfiteatro III

- 11:00 – 11:30: Opening of the second day of the colloquium

- 11:30 – 12:00: Keynote Speaker – Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (Retired Full Professor, University of Coimbra; Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura): The Portuguese royal chancery revisited: research paths

- 12:00 – 13:00: Papers and Discussion

Session: Chanceries as Centres of Power (III)

• Saul António Gomes (Full Professor; University of Coimbra; Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura); Rui Pedro Neves (PhD Student in Medieval History; University of Coimbra; Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura): The Portuguese Royal Chancellery (c. 1250–1350): endowment and tax revenue
• Isabel de Pina Baleiras (Researcher; Centre for History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon): The Chancellery of King Fernando I (1367-1383): political instrument and reinforce of Royal Power
• Paula Sofia Realinho da Cruz (Senior Technician; Câmara Municipal de Sesimbra; PhD Candidate in Global Studies; Universidade Aberta): Royal Writing, Local Administration, and the Assertion of Power: The Chancery in the Tombo of the Town of Sesimbra

- 13:00 – 14:30: Lunch

Coimbra, Biblioteca Geral - University of Coimbra, Sala de S. Pedro

- 14:30 – 15:00: Keynote Speaker – Benoît-Michel Tock (Professeur d'Histoire médiévale; Université de Strasbourg): Les actes royaux pour les laïcs (IXe-XIIe siècles)

- 15:00 – 15:30: Papers and Discussion

Session: Queens' Chanceries

• María Luisa Pardo Rodríguez (Profesora Catedrática Jubilada; Universidad de Sevilla): Las cancillerías de las reinas castellanas en la Edad Media: algunas precisiones desde la Diplomática
• Maria do Rosário Morujão (Assistant Professor; University of Coimbra; Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura); Inês Olaia (Researcher; Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa): Queen by the grace of God or by the grace of the Virgin Mary: the intitulationes of Leonor Teles, Queen of Portugal (1372-1383)

- 15:30 – 15:45: Coffee Break

- 15:45 – 16:45: Papers and Discussion

Session: Queens' Chanceries (cont.)

• Joan Beltran-Todolí (Doctorando en Historia, Universidad de Salamanca): La cancillería de María de Castilla (1416-1458), reina y lugarteniente de la Corona de Aragón: producción documental y conservación de la memoria en la acción de gobierno
• Sonja Lessacher (Researcher (MA); Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research (ÖAW, IMAFO): Beyond the Throne. Bianca Maria Sforza’s Neglected Chancery (1493–1510)
• Luis Fernando Fernández Guisasola (Investigador predoctoral; Departamento de Historia de América, Medieval y Ciencias Historiográficas; UCM-Santander): Diplomática del duelo: la suscripción de “la triste reina” en los reinos hispánicos y Nápoles

- 16:45 – 17:00: Closing of the colloquium

-17:00 – 18:00: Visit to the Biblioteca Joanina of the University of Coimbra