João Gouveia Monteiro
Email: joao.g.monteiro@sapo.pt
João Gouveia Monteiro (b. 1958) is Full Professor at the University of Coimbra, where he received his doctorate in History (1997). He was a guest professor at the Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III) and a visiting professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). He did internships at the universities of Bologna and La Laguna-Tenerife. In 1995-2001, he coordinated a multidisciplinary research project on the Aljubarrota battlefield. He is a corresponding academic at the Portuguese Academy of History and was the first President of the Iberian Association of Military History (4th-16th centuries), between 2015 and 2022. He founded and directs the Academy for the Encounter of Cultures and Religions (APECER- UC). He was Pro-Rector for Culture, Director of the University Press and Director of the U.C. General Library. He was a member of the General Council of U.C. in 2012-2016 and in 2020-2024 terms.
Main interests and research topics: Military History, European History in the Middle Ages, Ancient History and History of Religion.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3418-0217
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/C515-07FC-57A3
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/JoãoGouveiaMonteiro
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources