About
16
Publications
918
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
30
Citations
Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Current institution
Publications
Publications (16)
This article aims at the biographical study of a Portuguese physician of the fifteenth century, still insufficiently known by the Portuguese historiography. Based on known and unpublished facts, it proposes a perspective into his public life, shared between the University, the service of the Great and the ecclesiastical environment, thus constituti...
This article assesses whether the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon played a significant part in the development of medical knowledge in the Portuguese Empire during the first three decades of the sixteenth century. An analysis of the masters who taught at the university suggests that the Empire had little attraction for the faculty's...
According to available historical sources, risk protection for Portuguese sailors in the Middle Ages took less the form of the insurance than that of the pre-insurance. The latter was organised mostly around two institutions, namely the pooled resources of merchants (bolsas dos Mercadores) and various urban charitable associations known under the n...
[fr] La poursuite des affaires de la Couronne portugaise à la curie d’Avignon a amené la constitution de deux types de représentation. L’une, de caractère formelle, constituée par des ambassadeurs choisies ad casu au profil varié. L’autre, agencée autour des clercs séjournant de forme permanente à la curie. Les uns comme les autres intervinrent dan...
This text on the organization and social composition of the Lisbon cathedral chapter from 1277 to 1377 focuses initially on the variety et range of functions shown by the benefícial charges offered by such institution, examining secondly the human component of those charges by the analyses of geographical and social insertion of the beneficiaries o...
Associated to the memorization of the family, the chantries can also be defined through a scholarly purpose as shown by the Fourteenth-Century foundations made at Saint-Anne’s chapel founded in the church of Saint-Lawrence of Lisbon by Master Peter. Such institutions pretend to assure and to help the acquisition by certain members of his family of...
