Mafalda Soares

• Robert Gordon University

Dossier: A Tribute to the Late Great Historian António Manuel Hespanha († July 1, 2019) on the first anniversary of his death. The dossier comprises seven articles by former collaborators, colleagues, and students, who reflect on the impact of his academic career and personal qualities on the development of historiography.

This contribution serves as an introduction and framework for the specific analyzes included in this dossier on the doctoral theses concluded in Portugal, from 2010 to 2018, in the various historiographic subdomains. In addition to explaining the methodological approach and the criteria used in this historiographic survey, it also seeks to elucidat...

Este texto analiza el legado de la gestión de la casa de Braganza por parte de su quinto duque, Teodósio I (1532-1563). En él se estudia el impacto directo de sus decisiones sobre el gobierno de la familia, de la casa y del señorío en el futuro de la casa ducal. Además de haber consolidado el ducado brigantino como el más importante señorío portugu...

The general aim of this article is to analyse the political organisation of the territory in Portuguese America from the start of the building up of the Crown judiciary system from in the 16th to the 18th centuries and to look into the causes of its belatedness in comparison to what happened in Spanish America. The focus will however be on the coma...

Este texto pretende apresentar as condições institucionais da internacionalização da produção historiográfica em Portugal nos últimos 20 anos e propor explicações para o facto de a comunidade historiográfica internacional deter ainda um deficiente conhecimento sobre as realidades históricas portuguesas e sobre o trabalho dos historiadores portugues...

This article begins with an analysis of the long-term matrimonial strategies of the House of Braganza (1383-1640) with the end of determining and characterising the logic of their development. Next, it addresses some of the negotiating processes related to contracting marriage on the part of some members of the House, with the aim of making explici...

1. O tema e os problemas Importa, antes do mais, delimitar com clareza o âmbito deste texto. Não é nossa pretensão falar de forma detalhada sobre a família aristocrá-tica. Tão pouco buscamos discutir e enumerar todas as múltiplas formas através das quais se exercia o poder social da nobreza, no sentido mais amplamente focaultiano do termo. O que aq...