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Abstract

The number 06 of the History and Cultures Magazine of the Academic Master's Degree in History and Cultures of the State University of Ceará (MAHIS-UECE) dedicates itself integrally to the study of Written Culture, in the historiographic field that deals with the cut of Antiquity and Medieval. It presents, therefore, the insertion of the Group of Research in Written Culture in the
Antiquity and the Middle Ages / ARCHEA / CNPQ-UECE, linked to the MAHIS-UECE's "Memory, Orality and Written Culture" Research Line, together with the Degree in History / UECE, along with part of its academic, scientific network and institutional cooperation with other professors and researchers from different HEIs in the country. In this sense, the studies presented here aim to contribute to reinforce the relevance of the researches in Ancient and Medieval History growing increasingly in the Brazilian historiographic field, contrary to what many think.
For a long time, the historical studies dealing with antiquity and the Middle Ages focused on the South-Southeast axis of Brazil, which favored the hegemony of local studies in the other regions of the country. However, in the last two decades, academic exchange policies between Brazilian and foreign HEIs, especially the Old World, as well as the availability of historical documentation in online collections and the expansion of the publishing market with works addressing this cut, have contributed to arouse the interest of researchers, mainly from the North, Northeast and Center-West of Brazil, to develop themes focusing on the ancient and medieval world.
However, even in the face of the theoretical, methodological and academic advances exposed, in many specific historiographical traditions, as in most North-Northeast schools, there are still taboos that do not recognize the possibilities of research in Ancient and Medieval History , emphasizing the character of the regionalist research. However, against this hegemonic tendency, it is observed that more and more monographic proposals or in the scope of the postgraduate degree have been resisting the challenge in the disciplines of research in history, in the local scientific meetings, among other institutional spaces.