A Baixa de Coimbra em finais da Idade Média: Sociedade e cotidiano nas freguesias de S. Bartolomeu e Santiago

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to make an approach on society and daily life of medieval parishes of St. Bartholomew and St. James, located in downtown Coimbra, based on one of the chapters of our master thesis. Looking through the streets that composed this area, we sought to identify the economic activities that developed over the place, as well as the characters who lived there, trying to recreate some aspects of everyday life in this area of the suburbs during the Middle Ages. The achievement of the objectives listed above was made possible through the crossing of different sources of information, specially handwritten and cartographic sources, whereby we collected data and descriptions valuable to the understanding of everyday life and socioeconomic context of downtown Coimbra in the medieval period.