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This book presents the study and critical edition of one of the oldest obituaries preserved for a Portuguese collegiate church - the Medieval Obituary of St. Bartholomew of Coimbra. Written on an extraordinarily complex calendar, where all the elements of the calculation of the Catholic liturgical year, the invocation of the main saints, martyrs and confessors of the Church, the ritual orientations of the daily office as well as some profane and superstition elements take place, this document projects us into mental pictures and structures of thought, of living time and religion fundamental to the understanding of Western civilization. In turn, the identification of the deceased to be celebrated daily in the church of São Bartolomeu de Coimbra and the property bequeathed by them, for the maintenance of the funeral ceremonies, allows us to observe that parish, its space and its population, for over two hundred years.

Medieval Obituary --- Portuguese Middle Ages --- Medieval Calendar --- Diplomacy --- Coimbra in the Middle Ages --- Chronology --- Paleography

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The project "The European Dimension of a Group of Power: Ecclesiastics and the political State Building of the Iberian Monarchies (13th-15th centuries)” supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia assembled an inter-university team, that brought together researchers from five Portuguese universities and three Spanish universities, as well as consultants from three different universities. The book now being published is one of the outcomes of the work undertaken by the Iberian inter-university team. It confirms the possibilities opened up by teamwork and compared perspectives, as well as the need to pursue this approach in order to clarify the circumstances and conditionalities of a relationship from which both sides benefited. Thus the studies gathered here seek to return to the question of the Church's and clerics' contribution to the construction of royalty, approaching the peninsular context in a comparative way and analysing that contribution on different levels.

Medieval & Renaissance Studies --- clero --- Idade Média --- Península Ibérica --- poder régio --- relações internacionais --- religião --- Middle Ages --- royal power --- Medieval Iberian monarchies --- ecclesiastics --- kingship