This page has been created to share contents, especially publications, news, events, discoveries, related to the academic study of the southern France illuminated juridical manuscript production (13th-14th centuries) and it’s directly linked to the current postdoctoral research project of Dr. Maria Alessandra Bilotta (IEM-FCSH-UNL) on «Portuguese juridical manuscripts production and illumination between 14th and 15th centuries and theirs connections with manuscripts production and illumination in the French “Midi” (specially Toulouse, Avignon and Montpellier) and in the North-Mediterranean regions (Italy and Cataluña)», carried out within the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM: http://iem.fcsh.unl.pt/) of the Nova University of Lisbon and funded by the FCT (SFRH / BPD / 74298 / 2010)

The post-doctoral research of Maria Alessandra Bilotta involves, since 2007, the southern France illuminated juridical manuscript production, especially in Toulouse, Montpellier and Avignon between the late 13th and the first half of the 14th century . She has developed a research methodology that aims to consider these manuscripts and their illustration as the result of an original and creative process based on travels, exchanges and interactions of illuminators; on the circulation of objects, manuscripts, patrons and patterns, as well as on the sharing of common knowledge in the north Mediterranean geographical areas (Italy, Southern France, Iberian Peninsula; (http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fr/actualites/singleview/article/7/histoire-medievale-publication.html).

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