Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, where he is currently Vice-Dean. He is director of the Casa dos Livros | Centro de Estudos da Cultura em Portugal da Universidade do Porto. He is member of the Academia Europaea and researcher at CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Research Center \u201cCulture, Space and Memory\u201d). His research focuses on Medieval Archaeology, covering areas such as Military Architecture (Castles), Medieval Armaments, Manorial Architecture (domus fortis) and Portuguese Medieval Epigraphy (which was the subject of his PhD). He is the author of more than 160 studies (books and articles).
He is the scientific coordinator, together with Lu\u00eds Carlos Amaral, of the Commission for the Commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Battle of S. Mamede (1128-2028). He was director of the magazine PORTVGALIA (1999-2024). Together with Jorge de Alarc\u00e3o, he coordinated the Dictionary of Portuguese Archaeology (Porto, Figueirinhas, 2012) and was one of the four coordinators of the Encyclopedia of the Romanesque in Portugal (3 vols., Fundaci\u00f3n Santa Maria la Real, Aguilar de Campoo, 2023).
His works include Epigrafia Medieval Portuguesa (862-1422), 4 vols., Lisbon, FCG-FCT, 2000; Nova Hist\u00f3ria Militar de Portugal, vol. 1, Coord. Jos\u00e9 Mattoso, Lisbon, C\u00edrculo de Leitores, 2003 (with Jo\u00e3o Gouveia Monteiro and Lu\u00eds Miguel Duarte); A Condessa-Rainha Teresa, Lisbon, CL, 2012 (with Lu\u00eds Carlos Amaral) (2nd ed., 2020); Portugaliae Monumenta Historica, Nova S\u00e9rie, vol. VIII-1, Inscriptiones – Corpvs Epigraphicum Portugalensium, S\u00e9c. IX a XII, Lisboa, Academia das Ci\u00eancias de Lisboa, 2017; No tempo de D. Afonso Henriques. Reflex\u00f5es sobre o primeiro s\u00e9culo portugu\u00eas, Porto, CITCEM, 2017 (Coord.); Mil Anos da Incurs\u00e3o Normanda ao Castelo de Vermoim, Porto, CITCEM, 2018 (Coord., with Armando Coelho Ferreira da Silva); and Castelo de Guimar\u00e3es. Livro-Guia do Centro Interpretativo, Guimar\u00e3es, AAPDBCG, 2019 (in collaboration with Lu\u00eds Carlos Amaral).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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