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Personal profile
Research interests
Maria Barreto Dávila is a post-doctoral researcher at CHAM – Centre for Humanities, currently working on the project “Gender, Space and Power: representations of female authority at the Portuguese Court (1438-1471). She has a PhD in History of The Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, with the thesis “Ruling the Atlantic: The infanta Beatriz and the House of Viseu (1470-1485)”, from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and holds a master's degree in Medieval History from the same institution. Her main research interests include Court Studies, regarding the relationship of women and power, during the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Atlantic History, specially the beginning of the Portuguese Discoveries and the connection between women and the sea. She is also developing a research line concerning the study of women and war. Currently, she is working on a book about the infanta Beatriz of Portugal.
She is a member of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and of the Royal Studies Network.
She is a resarch team member of the H2020 RIse Project CONCHA (2018-2021).
She is the coordinator of the thematic line History of Women and Gender at CHAM - Centre for the Humanities, since January 2018.
Keywords
- D111 Medieval History
- Women's >History
- Royal Studies
- Atlantic History
- Atlantic Archipelagoes
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Research Output at NOVA
A Mulher dos Descobrimentos: D. Beatriz, Infanta de Portugal
Dávila, M. B., 2019, Lisboa: A Esfera dos Livros. 320 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
D. Beatriz tinha papagaios do Brasil, sedas da Índia, porcelanas, um mar de especiarias e 400 quilos de açúcar
Dávila, M., 2019, In : Diario de Noticias. 54843Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Dona Brígida "do Cabo Verde": Elite women in 16th Century Ribeira Grande
Dávila, M. B., 17 Jul 2019, p. 1. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Dona Brígida “do Cabo Verde”: elite women in 16th century Ribeira Grande (Cape Verde)
Dávila, M., Jul 2019, p. 60.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Open Access
File
Mulheres da Realeza Ibérica mediadoras Políticas e Culturais
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Activities
- 2 Participation in conference
Ciclo de Conferências sobre Questões de Género
Isabel Rute Araújo Branco (Organiser), Maria Barreto Dávila (Organiser), Noemi Alfieri (Organiser)1 Sep 2019 → 18 Dec 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Congresso Internacional, Fronteiras de guerra e de negociação.
Carolina Esteves Soares (Organiser), Pedro Cardim (Organiser), Maria Barreto Dávila (Organiser), David Martín Marcos (Organiser), André Murteira (Organiser)8 Oct 2018 → 9 Oct 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference