Maria Joana Gomes, researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, and Francesco Renzi, integrated researcher at CEHR-Portuguese Catholic University, collaborating researcher at CITCEM in the Sociabilities and Religious Practices Group and contract lecturer at the Department of History, Political and International Studies, both at FLUP, have won the prize for the best publication of 2022 in the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (JMIS), for the publication, “Miro, King of the Suevi (d. 583), and ecclesiastical identities in northwestern Hispania (eleventh-twelfth centuries)“. The award was announced on December 7, 2023.

The work of researchers, when considering how the concepts of identity and memory were articulated in the medieval Iberian Peninsula, contrasts two distinct periods. It is based on the representation of King Miro of the Suevi (r. 570 – 583) made in the Historia Compostellana and the Cronicón Iriense. The authors analyze how the figure of this sovereign served the interests of the diocese of Santiago de Compostela, which sought to establish its hierarchy in Hispania by appealing to the preeminence of the Suevi as representatives of the first Christian enclave on the Peninsula.

The winning paper can be found at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17546559.2022.2118347