IELT hosts the research project The Golden Age of the Romancero: Echoes of traditional ballads in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature (GOLDEN-Rom), by  Nicolás Asensio Jiménez, funded through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship.

The main objective of GOLDEN-Rom is to study the interpolation of novels in Spanish literature of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. It articulates with the IELT project RELIT-Rom: Literary revisions: the creative application of ancient ballads (15th-18th centuries) which aims the same purpose in Portuguese literature.

The goal of the association of GOLDEN-Rom and RELIT-Rom projects is to constitute a critical archive of testimonies of novels in Peninsular literature between the 15th and 17th centuries, and of the complex and multifaceted effects produced by novelistic interpolations in new literary contexts.

GOLDEN-Rom is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program through the Marie Skoldowska-Curie Grant (nº 101029346). Researcher Nicolás Asensio Jiménez is responsible for its development and is supervised by Teresa Araújo, the researcher responsible for RELIT-Rom. It is based at IELT – NOVA FCSH, as this unit develops relevant studies on Romanceiro at the international level.