Early Modern History of Portugal
0
2024-2025
01010784
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
This class has two teaching dimensions:
1. The professor will present a macro-dimensional overview of the reference bibliography for each topic of the class; clarify the operative ideas and theoretical models, outline the structural areas and questions of the class material. This presentation will be done using various materials as aids - books, documents, maps, pictures.
2. In the interaction between students and professor, and among students, specific problems relating to the bibliography and documents will be analyzed.
Learning Outcomes
1. Students will gain a critical understanding and capacity for differentiation of historiographical discourse about central issues in the areas of economy, society, politics and culture;
2. Ability to analyze and understand national history in its external connections (European and global/Empire) and internal (local and regional scales);
3. Ability to select and interlace information relevant to the understanding of historical phenomena given the diversity of spatial and temporal contexts and using dense explanatory models;
4. Learn about events and relevant figures of Portuguese history and analyze their actions in context;
5. Understand the dynamics of Portuguese society, politics, thought and culture in the Early Modern Era.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Historiography of the Portuguese Modern Era [early modern period]: Portuguese and foreign historians; reference works
2. Portugal in the context of the first globalization: economic, political and cultural links with other European countries and with areas of the Empire
3. Population and demographical dynamics
4. Economic activities; dynamics of growth and crisis; theories and economic policies
5. Structuring principles of society and social dynamics
6. Political configurations of power: the Crown, the Church, landlords [overlords], local governments
7. The construction process of the Modern State: conceptions, theories, practices and protagonists of the exercise of power; instruments of governance and control: the construction of the royal bureaucracy - organs and agents
8. Reception and evolution of humanism. Cultural policy in the era of the Counter-Reformation and the triumph of the Baroque. Intellectual censorship and reading circles. Cultural renewal of Enlightenment.
Assessment Methods
Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%
Continuous evaluation
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Frequency: 50.0%
Bibliography
ARAÚJO, A. C. (2003). A cultura das Luzes em Portugal: temas e problemas. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.
CURTO, D. R. (2007). Cultura escrita - séculos XV a XVIII. Lisboa: ICS.
DIAS, J. S. S. (2006). Portugal e a cultura europeia (séculos XVI a XVIII). Porto: Campo das Letras.
HESPANHA, A. (coord.) (1993). "O Antigo Regime". In História de Portugal. Vol. IV. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores.
LOPES, M. A. (2010). Protecção social em Portugal na Idade Moderna. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade.
MARCOCCI, G. & PAIVA, J. P. (2013). História da Inquisição Portuguesa, 1536-1821. Lisboa: Esfera dos Livros.
MAGALHÃES, J. R. (coord.) (1993). "No Alvorecer da Modernidade". In História de Portugal. Vol. III. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores.
MENESES, A. F. (coord.) (2001). "Portugal da paz da Restauração ao ouro do Brasil" In Nova História de Portugal. Vol. VII. Lisboa: Editorial Presença.
NETO, M. S. (2010). O Universo da Comunidade rural. Coimbra: Palimage.