Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa is currently a hired PhD researcher at the VINCULUM project, funded by the European Research Council and hosted by NOVA University of Lisbon. She is also an integrated member of the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST — Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, and former Sub-director of the Medieval Studies Institute of NOVA.
She has a PhD in Historical Archivistics from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne and NOVA University of Lisbon. For the past fourteen years, her research has focused on pre-modern family archives and the epistemologies of historical knowledge relating to the implications of archival (il)literacy in the interpretation of the past. This research path led Rita to a three-year postdoctoral individual research project at University of Porto, which allowed her to further her understanding of pre-modern families as information producing institutions.
Seeking to contribute to higher education and knowledge transfer, Rita has co-coordinated a Post-Graduation in Historical Archivists, has well as several other training courses and published resources in related fields, working briefly as Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA.
Having dedicated her MA to the study of medieval leper houses, she has maintained the history of contagious diseases as a secondary research interest, contributing over the years with a handful of academic and non-academic articles and presentations.
Her recent publications include Recovered voices, newfound questions. Family archives and historical research, a co-edited book volume published in 2019, and the co-edition of two special issues on the Paths of Historical Archivisitics, published in 2023 and 2024.
Address: Portugal
She has a PhD in Historical Archivistics from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne and NOVA University of Lisbon. For the past fourteen years, her research has focused on pre-modern family archives and the epistemologies of historical knowledge relating to the implications of archival (il)literacy in the interpretation of the past. This research path led Rita to a three-year postdoctoral individual research project at University of Porto, which allowed her to further her understanding of pre-modern families as information producing institutions.
Seeking to contribute to higher education and knowledge transfer, Rita has co-coordinated a Post-Graduation in Historical Archivists, has well as several other training courses and published resources in related fields, working briefly as Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA.
Having dedicated her MA to the study of medieval leper houses, she has maintained the history of contagious diseases as a secondary research interest, contributing over the years with a handful of academic and non-academic articles and presentations.
Her recent publications include Recovered voices, newfound questions. Family archives and historical research, a co-edited book volume published in 2019, and the co-edition of two special issues on the Paths of Historical Archivisitics, published in 2023 and 2024.
Address: Portugal
less
Related Authors
InterestsView All (14)
Uploads
PhD Thesis by Rita Nóvoa
Master Thesis by Rita Nóvoa
Papers by Rita Nóvoa
archives. This impact is reflected in the archival practices and implications of creating and administering entails, including the documentary production associated with entails and the way in which the entailment documentary nuclei have been constituted, preserved,
organized and used over time. In the first part of the text, the Gama Lobo Salema archive and the information it provides about entails between the 15th and 19th centuries are briefly characterized. We then move on to a detailed examination of four entails represented in this archive, founded between the 15th and 16th centuries: the chapel of Maria Rebela (Lisbon, 1599); the morgadio of Tomé Salema (Alcácer do Sal, 1559; the morgadios of Espadeiro Grande e Pequeno (Olivença, 15th century) and the morgadio of Diogo Salema and Maria Salema (Setúbal, 1586)
authors present a type of family archive prevalent in the Beira Alta region still in private hands. The authors produce an estimate of the number of family archives that existed around 1850. The authors conclude by highlighting the historiographical relevance of this type of archives and by drawing attention to the risks such archives face today.
A peste “é a prova durante a qual se pode definir idealmente o exercício do poder disciplinar”, escreve Michel Foucault. Enfrentamos agora a mesma realidade? Estamos a reproduzir, afinal, as regras de combate às pestes dos séculos XIV a XVII? Uma revisitação histórica e uma leitura contemporânea dos tempos que estamos a atravessar.
of families and the evolution of the archives themselves.
from the inventoried version that calcified as the Index Geral.
António Xavier de Miranda Henriques”, um inventário post-mortem produzido em 1815 por João Filipe da Cruz para catalogar o arquivo de António Xavier, patriarca eleito de Lisboa e filho do 2º Conde de Sandomil. Na primeira secção analisam-se os contextos e objetivos da produção do inventário, a sua estrutura interna e a sua história custodial e arquivística. Na segunda secção examina-se o arquivo inventariado e as possibilidades de reconstituição virtual do acervo dos Miranda Henriques, desagregado em 1815.
Arquivística Histórica, situada na confluência
da História com a Arquivística, e expõem-se
as circunstâncias do seu desenvolvimento,
de forma informativa, mas também reflexiva
e crítica. Após uma primeira parte em que
se trata do conceito que dá nome à área,
descrevem-se as várias atividades que nela
têm sido realizadas no âmbito do programa
ARQFAM, e apresentam-se as investigações
doutorais realizadas e em curso sobre arquivos
de família na Europa de Antigo Regime,
visando esboçar uma primeira síntese a partir
delas.
Books by Rita Nóvoa
The aim of this work is to present very little known or even unknown archives, interrogate and analyze them in the light of new historical and archival perspectives, discover the "voices" of those who produced them - and thus formulate new research questions. It is divided into three parts: “Recovering, reconstructing and (re)discovering family and personal archives”; “From a social, political and cultural history of the families to a social history of the archives”; “Public preservation and promotion of family and personal archives”.
archives. This impact is reflected in the archival practices and implications of creating and administering entails, including the documentary production associated with entails and the way in which the entailment documentary nuclei have been constituted, preserved,
organized and used over time. In the first part of the text, the Gama Lobo Salema archive and the information it provides about entails between the 15th and 19th centuries are briefly characterized. We then move on to a detailed examination of four entails represented in this archive, founded between the 15th and 16th centuries: the chapel of Maria Rebela (Lisbon, 1599); the morgadio of Tomé Salema (Alcácer do Sal, 1559; the morgadios of Espadeiro Grande e Pequeno (Olivença, 15th century) and the morgadio of Diogo Salema and Maria Salema (Setúbal, 1586)
authors present a type of family archive prevalent in the Beira Alta region still in private hands. The authors produce an estimate of the number of family archives that existed around 1850. The authors conclude by highlighting the historiographical relevance of this type of archives and by drawing attention to the risks such archives face today.
A peste “é a prova durante a qual se pode definir idealmente o exercício do poder disciplinar”, escreve Michel Foucault. Enfrentamos agora a mesma realidade? Estamos a reproduzir, afinal, as regras de combate às pestes dos séculos XIV a XVII? Uma revisitação histórica e uma leitura contemporânea dos tempos que estamos a atravessar.
of families and the evolution of the archives themselves.
from the inventoried version that calcified as the Index Geral.
António Xavier de Miranda Henriques”, um inventário post-mortem produzido em 1815 por João Filipe da Cruz para catalogar o arquivo de António Xavier, patriarca eleito de Lisboa e filho do 2º Conde de Sandomil. Na primeira secção analisam-se os contextos e objetivos da produção do inventário, a sua estrutura interna e a sua história custodial e arquivística. Na segunda secção examina-se o arquivo inventariado e as possibilidades de reconstituição virtual do acervo dos Miranda Henriques, desagregado em 1815.
Arquivística Histórica, situada na confluência
da História com a Arquivística, e expõem-se
as circunstâncias do seu desenvolvimento,
de forma informativa, mas também reflexiva
e crítica. Após uma primeira parte em que
se trata do conceito que dá nome à área,
descrevem-se as várias atividades que nela
têm sido realizadas no âmbito do programa
ARQFAM, e apresentam-se as investigações
doutorais realizadas e em curso sobre arquivos
de família na Europa de Antigo Regime,
visando esboçar uma primeira síntese a partir
delas.
The aim of this work is to present very little known or even unknown archives, interrogate and analyze them in the light of new historical and archival perspectives, discover the "voices" of those who produced them - and thus formulate new research questions. It is divided into three parts: “Recovering, reconstructing and (re)discovering family and personal archives”; “From a social, political and cultural history of the families to a social history of the archives”; “Public preservation and promotion of family and personal archives”.
A Pós-Graduação em Arquivística Histórica
oferece formação teórica e prática numa
área de estudos inovadora e emergente que
promove uma abordagem interdisciplinar
entre a História, a Ciência da Informação e a
Ciência Arquivística.
O objectivo central deste curso passa
pela aquisição e/ou aprofundamento
de conhecimentos e competências que
permitam dotar especialistas das ferramentas
necessárias para compreender os arquivos
– na sua dupla acepção de instituições de
memória e conjuntos documentais – como
complexas construções sociais, políticas e
culturais organicamente ligadas à evolução
histórica das suas entidades produtoras.