Joana Sequeira

• PhD in History
• Research Assistant at University of Minho

This chapter analyses foreign trade and trade routes in the Iberian Peninsula between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries. It overviews the dual circumstances of the Christian kingdoms and of the Muslim al-Andalus over the long term, although it focuses especially on the period between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries, and on events...

One of the research areas of the EuroWeb project during the four years of the COST Action (November 2020 – October 2024) is the comparative study of textile and clothing terminologies in European languages across time. Inside the EuroWeb network, the research group on Textile and clothing terminologies has three topics of particular interest: 1. th...

Textiles as man-made products have been exchanged over distances for millennia. They can and have been produced almost anywhere; they are also, as a product, highly differentiated and quickly adjustable to changing demands. This brings with it naming practices to communicate about the goods in question. Textiles are labeled so that people can form...

Este artigo explora as características e os contextos de utilização da camisa em Portugal entre os finais do século XIV e inícios do século XVI. Discute-se a utilização da camisa enquanto roupa de dormir e exploram-se as suas relações com o corpo e a nudez. Analisam-se também os formatos e os materiais, de acordo com os diferentes estatutos sociais...

Introduction Portugal was certainly not one of Europe’s largest, most significant fabric manufacturers in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the country benefitted from a number of conditions which enabled its textile industry to develop products with unique features. Raw materials such as flax, wool and silk were available domestically, as were dyestu...

Este artigo centra-se no estudo de um inventário de documentação do cartório da vila de Elvas realizado em 1432, que se encontra inserido no único livro de receitas e despesas medieval do concelho que sobreviveu até aos nossos dias. É igualmente apresentada, em Apêndice, a transcrição integral deste livro de contas. No estudo, começa-se por discuti...

The title of this article puts forward the research question: can the books of the merchant Michele Da Colle be considered as the oldest example of the use of the double entry method in Portugal? Michele was a Tuscan merchant and agent to the Pisan Salviati-Da Colle firm, established in Lisbon as of the second half of the fifteenth century. The fir...

This wide-ranging theme takes Braudel’s concept of the “Mediterranean” as its starting point. Braudel’s vision of an enclosed sea as a geographical opportunity for economic integration between nations with different religions, languages and ethnicities and political bodies still functions as a model for studies on a wide range of contexts. The goal...

Through the analysis of generic and individual references on the occupation of women in the textile sector, this article will look to define the role of women at each stage of production (fiber preparation, spinning, weaving, finishing processes, manufacture of clothing and trade/organization of production).