Biography

He holds a PhD in History from the Universities of Porto and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2021) and is a researcher on the VINCULUM project (Grant agreement no. 819734). His work centres on medieval and Ancien Régime history in Portugal, around aspects such as kinship. Within the framework of the project for which he is hired, he is also interested in the field of historical archives and the history of historiography.

Research fields

• Kinship
• Aristocracy

Selected publications

• Aguiar, Miguel Aguiar. “Noms et armoiries : succession et héritage dans l’aristocratie portugaise à la fin du Moyen Âge.” Médiévales 84 (2023): 133-154. [link]🔓
• Aguiar, Miguel Aguiar. “Why Marriage Mattered? Marriage and Social Reproduction – the Case of Late Medieval Portuguese Aristocracy (1380-1530).” Edad Media 23 (2022): 153–185. [link]🔓
• Aguiar, Miguel Aguiar. “Sucessão e herança: transmissão e reprodução social da aristocracia portuguesa no final da Idade Média.” Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos 69 (2022): 211–239. [link]🔓
• Aguiar, Miguel Aguiar. “«Fazer cavaleiros»: as cerimónias de investidura cavaleiresca no Portugal medieval (séculos XII-XV).” Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos 62 (2015): 13–46. [link]🔓

Main projects

• Researcher of the project “VINCULUM. Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries)” — Coordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rosa (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the European Research Council (Grant agreement ID: 819734). [link]