Online dictionary of the crown's peripheral officialdom (14th-15th centuries)
The online dictionary of the crown's peripheral officialdom (14th-15th centuries) is a database created with the aim of systematically making available details of the holders of royal positions, at local and regional level, who exercised military, clerical, judicial
and treasury functions. The aim was to identify a wide range of positions within this typology, record their posts and gradually analyse the construction of the administrative divisions implemented by the Portuguese monarchy in the latter Middle Ages.
This database is the result of an internal IEM project called OFIPER (PERIPHERAL OFFICIALS OF THE CROWN IN THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL - 14th-15th centuries), linked to the training programme offered by the Institute as part of the Atelier de Iniciação à Investigação em Estudos Medievais (1st cycle curricular unit). This project served as a vehicle for incorporating students from the FCSH and, in 2013/2014, also from the Universidade Aberta (the latter in a non-accredited training programme) into
research in Medieval History.
Design and definition of completion protocols:
Adelaide Costa (coordinator)
Mário Farelo
Filipa Roldão
Database compilers:
2011-2012 academic year - Gonçalo Melo da Silva (master's student), Diogo Gomes, Frederico Pinto, Joaquim Gafeira and Patrícia Costa (undergraduate students).
2012-2013 academic year - Diana Martins, Lia Fernandes, Pedro Silva Rei, Tomás de Albuquerque Costa (undergraduate students).
2013-2014 academic year - Nuno Ivo; Carlos Serejo (undergraduate students).
Criteria:
The online dictionary of peripheral crown officials (14th and 15th centuries) is a prosopographical database. Since there are numerous sources of information on these individuals, the initial decision was to analyze the published compilations of documents
from the Royal Chancellery for the period in question. However, the database can continue to receive new entries and, once the data is validated, it will be published as open content in this space.
The database consists of a main table for each individual, including differentiating elements such as name, place of birth, and an array of distinguishing observations.
Various secondary tables provide information characterizing the individual in terms of public life, education, heritage, and network of personal relationships.
The protocol for filling in the form is attached.
Construction:
Daniel Alves (Digital Humanities Laboratory, IHC/IN2PAST, NOVA FCSH)
João Lima
Pdf with fill-in protocol
How to cite the database: COSTA, Adelaide Millán (coord.) (2011 -), Dicionário online do Oficialato Periférico da Coroa (séculos XIV-XV) [online database]. Lisbon: Institute of Medieval Studies, FCSH/NOVA. DOI:
This work was financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the scope of the Strategic Project of the Institute of Medieval Studies - Reference - PEst-OE/HIS/UI0749/2011.
Last update:
2015
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Justice and communities in a time of transition (1481-1580)
JUSCOM - Justice and communities in a time of transition (1481-1580) is a prosopographical database of judges appointed by the crown during the reigns of King João II to King Sebastião, identifying them and detailing their careers. The database thus provides information on the personnel embodying the evolution of the crown's peripheral judicial apparatus (in terms of the exercise of justice at first instance). The information was collected from the records of the Royal Chancelleries, the Corpo Cronológico (Chronological Corpus) and the Gavetas of the Torre do Tombo.
The database comprises a main table for each individual, including differentiating elements such as name, place of birth, and distinguishing observations. Various secondary tables provide information on the individual in terms of public life, education, heritage and network of personal relationships.
The protocol for filling in the form is very similar to that of the OFIPER database
Pdf with protocol for filling in the database
Design and definition of the filling protocols:
Adelaide Costa (coordinator)
Mário Farelo
Filipa Roldão
Responsibles for filling in the database:
Diogo Faria (grant holder)
Nuno Rodrigues (grant holders)
Construction:
Daniel Alves (Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais, IHC/IN2PAST, NOVA FCSH )
Criteria:
This database was developed as part of the JUSCOM project (Juiz da Terra, Juiz de Fora. Justice and Communities in a transitional phase (1481-1580), based at the Institute of Medieval Studies of NOVA FCSH and with the collaboration of Universidade Aberta and the Centre for Geographical Studies of FL-UL, as partner entities, and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/EPH-HIS/4323/2012). To access the project website, follow the link: JUSCOM - Juiz da terra, juiz de fora (Justiça e comunidades num período de transiçao: 1481-1580)
How to cite the database: COSTA, Adelaide Millán (coord.) (2016), Justiça e Comunidades numa fase de
transição (1481-1580), [database]. Lisboa: Instituto de Estudos Medievais,
FCSH/NOVA. DOI:
Last updated:
2017
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.