In the year that the project will end, VINCULUM has created a community on the Zenodo platform, is already present in the EU Open Research Repository, and has published a set of seven books in open access — available on the OAPEN platform and at the University of Coimbra Press (with three more in press).

In the VINCULUM community on Zenodo, a research data repository that allows data to be shared and preserved (developed under the European OpenAIRE programme and operated by CERN), interested people will be able to find a wide range of items — from publications to project events and videos. This community is further boosting the international reach of the project, funded by the ERC and coordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rosa.

As for publications at OAPEN, there we find the book ‘Entail of the Month: a Science Communication Experience (2019-2024)’ (coordinated by Maria de Lourdes Rosa and Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa) and the collections ‘Source Editions’, ‘Research Tools’ and ‘Historical and Archival Studies’, directed by Maria de Lurdes Rosa. The first collection includes the work ‘Tombo das Capelas da Cidade de Évora e das vilas de Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora e Lavre; Vínculos das provedorias da comarca de Évora e Estremoz, séculos XV-XIX’ (André Madruga Coelho and Lourdes Rosa); the second, ‘A Memória dos Vínculos. Documentos do projeto VINCULUM. Antologia de Fontes’ (edited by Ana Mafalda Lopes, Fábio Duarte and Maria Teresa Oliveira); the third includes ‘Imagining and organising kinship: the entailment system (14th-17th centuries)’ (Miguel Aguiar), ‘Power: Entailment, status, and social mobility (14th-17th centuries)’ (Ana Rita Rocha), ‘Entailment identity: construction, transmission, perpetuation (14th-17th centuries)’ (Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa) and ‘Privilege, Memory and Perpetuity: Entails and Entailment in Europe, ca. 1300-1800’ (edited by Maria de Lurdes Rosa).

Making these resources available is part of the open science strategy adopted by VINCULUM since its inception, which recently resulted in it winning the YERUN Open Science Award, particularly for its extensive educational programme that combined research with the teaching of the humanities. In addition to the resources mentioned here, the VINCULUM website contains the project’s database and the VINCULUM information System Guide – VISG, which ‘aims to reconstruct the institutional, administrative, and information production system created by the practice of entailment between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries’. VINCULUM’s main objective was to study entailment in premodern societies of southern Europe, in order to be able to conceptualise and explain the phenomenon.