Joana SEQUEIRA

Joana Sequeira. Assistant Researcher in History,  based at the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). She got her PhD in History in 2012 from the University of Porto (Portugal) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France) with a thesis on the textile production in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages. Since then, she has been devoted to the study of social and economic history between the 13th and 16th centuries, namely textile and dress production and consumption, mercantile networks and trade in the Mediterranean, crafts activities and its regulations, as well as mercantile and urban accounting records and practices. 

The individual project that she is currently developing is entitled "Wor(l)ds of Cultural Diversity: Dress and Textiles in Portugal, 13th-15th centuries" (2020.02528.CEECIND) and aims at studying dress and textiles in medieval Portugal (early 13th century to late 15th century), applying the concepts of multiculturality and interculturality.She is former Co-PI of the collective project MedCrafts: "Crafts regulation in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages, 14th-15th centuries" (PTDC/HAR-HIS/31427/2017), that ran from 2018 to 2022 and  Vice-leader of WG3 (Textile Terminologies) within COST Action 19131, “EuroWeb – Europe through Textiles Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities”.