Clínio de Oliveira Amaral holds a bachelor’s degree, a licentiate, a master’s degree, and a
doctorate in history from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. During his PhD at the École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France between 2007 and 2008, he was a CAPES
sandwich scholar. Between 2022 and 2023, he completed postdoctoral studies in literature at the
School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. As a fellow
of the Jaime Cortesão Chair at USP (Universidade de São Paulo), he conducted research at the
Universities of Coimbra and Porto in Portugal in 2006. In 2019 and between 2022 and 2023, he
was a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He has experience in the field
of history with a focus on the Middle Ages and works mainly in the following areas:
medievalism, neomedievalism and Infante d. Fernando (Infante Santo). In the field of religious
history, he studies the narratives of Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal churches, analyses the
spread of fundamentalism in Brazil in recent decades and develops research on Catholic
conservatism. He also has experience in translation (French/Portuguese and Latin/Portuguese).
Since June 2023 he is editor-in-chief of the Revista Neomedieval based at the Universidad Rey
Juan Carlos in Spain. He is currently Associate Professor IV at the Federal Rural University of
Rio de Janeiro, researcher at Linhas e (Centres for Studies on Narratives and Medievalisms:
https://linhas-ufrrj.org/) and coordinator of LABEP (Laboratory for Studies on Protestantisms: