Military History of Portugal: XVI-XVIII

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teaching of this course is based on theoretical and theoretical-practical classes, supported by iconographic elements, analysis of texts, group work, readings and individual work, with the presentation and discussion of matters arising from those works

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to provide students with a global and coherent view of the military events and practices in Portugal from the 16th century to the 18th century, highlighting the most important features of the Portuguese military organization and its national, Iberian and European contexts, having as a background the Portuguese overseas expansion.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

INTRODUCTION.

The military history of early-modern Portugal: on the periphery of the “military revolution”.

1. WAR, SOCIETY AND POWER IN EARLY-MODERN PORTUGAL.

1. 1. The Portuguese military organization.

1. 1. 1. Recruitment and supply.

1. 1. 2. The cost of war.

1. 1. 3. The ordenanças system.

1. 1. 4. The eighteenth-century reforms.

1. 2. War and society.

1. 2. 1. Social status and military hierarchies.

1. 2. 2. War and social promotion.

2. POLITICAL CULTURE, ART AND WAR.

2. 1. The military ethos. Debates on the military nobility.

2. 2. Texts: authors and works.

2. 3. Arms and the symbols of power.

3. WAR IN THE PORTUGUESE REALM.

3. 1. The Dynastic Union.

3. 2. The War of the Restoration (1641-1668).

3. 3. The War of the Spanish Succession(1701-1715).

3. 4. The “Fantastic War” (1762).

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

1. AAVV, O recrutamento militar em Portugal. Actas do VII Colóquio da Comissão Portuguesa de História Militar, Lisboa, Comissão Portuguesa de História Militar, 1998 [1999].

2. BARATA, Manuel Themudo; TEIXEIRA, Nuno Severiano (dir.), Nova História Militar de Portugal, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, vol. 2., 2004.

3. BEBIANO, Rui, A Pena de Marte. Escrita da guerra em Portugal e na Europa (sécs. XVI-XVIII), “Minerva- História, 20”, Coimbra, Minerva, 2000.

4. COSTA, Fernando Dores, A Guerra da Restauração (1641-1668), “Temas de História de Portugal”, Lisboa,Livros Horizonte, 2004.

5. DUARTE, António Paulo, O equilíbrio ibérico (séculos XI-XX): história e fundamentos, Lisboa, EdiçõesCosmos-Instituto da Defesa Nacional, 2003.