HISTORY OF PORTUGAL

Coordinators:
Filomena Barros; Mafalda Soares da Cunha, & Helder Adegar Fonseca.

COURSE GOALS:
This program intends to provide an introduction to the main changes which have occurred in Portugal since the medieval times.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Students will:
- Contact with different historiographical approaches
- Use concepts of economic, cultural, political and social history

- Understand the communalities and singularities of Portugal in European and World historical context.

 

I. Portuguese Medieval History:

  1. Muslims and Christians: the “Reconquista” and the emergence of the Portuguese Kingdom
  2. The consolidation of Monarchy: the Burgundy dynasty
  3. Social and population structures: between the Christian majority and the Jewish and Muslim minorities
  4. The 1383-85 crisis and the rise of the Avis dynasty: centralization of royal power and social transformations

 

II. Portuguese Early Modern History:

  1. The Portuguese overseas expansion: from Ceuta to Timor and its Cultural Impact.
  2. The hierarchical society
  3. Institutions and the political power (1500-1807)
  4. The cultural life

 

III. Portuguese Modern and Contemporary History (5 session * 2 hours)

1.    Portuguese Socio-Political and Institutional History (19th and 20th Centuries): Main Phases and Features (Prof. Helder Adegar Fonseca)

2.    Portuguese Society: Cultural Dynamics. (Prof. Fátima Nunes)

3.    Portuguese Society and Culture in 20th Century - Public Libraries and Information Society. (Prof. Francisco Vaz)

4.    Portugal in the 20th Century: It’s Economic and Social Driving Forces (Prof. Paulo Guimarães)

5.    Portugal and the “3th Empire” (c.1890-1974): main Phases (Prof. Helder Adegar Fonseca

 

 

 

Selected Bibliography:

 

Birmingham, David (2003), A Concise History of Portugal, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press

http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/30041/sample/9780521830041ws.pdf

 

BETHENCOURT, Francisco; CURTO, Diogo Ramada, eds. (2007), Portuguese oceanic expansion, 1400-1800, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

 

BOXER, C.R. (1969), The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

 

Glick, Thomas (1991), Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages,
Comparative Perspectives on Social and Cultural Formation, Brill

THE LIBRARY OF IBERIAN RESOURCES ONLINE

http://libro.uca.edu/ics/emspain.htm

 

MACHADO, Diamantino P. (1991) : The Structure of Portuguese Society: The Failure of Fascism, Praeger Publishers, N.Y. 1991 , pp. 99-122 (Chap.4. “The Colonial Empire”) (www.questia.com) (PDF format)

 

MARQUES, A.H. de Oliveira (1972), History of Portugal. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

MELO, Daniel (2004), Leitura Pública no Portugal Contemporâneo (1926-1987), Lisboa, Imprensa Ciências Sociais.

 

 

PAYNE, Stanley G. (1973), A History of Spain and Portugal, vol. I and II, University of Wisconsin Press [THE LIBRARY OF IBERIAN RESOURCES ONLINE

http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/spainport1.htm; http://libro.uca.edu/payne2/spainport2.htm]

 

 

PINTO, António Costa (Edited by)(1997), Modern Portugal, Califórnia.

 

 

ROBINSON, Richard (1979), Contemporary Portugal, London: Allen & Unwin.

 

STANISLAWSKI, Dan (1959), The Individuality of Portugal, University of Texas Press

[THE LIBRARY OF IBERIAN RESOURCES ONLINE, http://libro.uca.edu/stanislawski/portugal.htm]

 

WHEELER, Douglas (1993). Historical Dictionary of Portugal. London, Scarecrow Press.

Resources on line

Internet Medieval Sourcebook – Selected Sources – Portugal

www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1p.html#Portugal

 

European History – Portugal

http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/portugal/Portugal.htm

 

Portuguese History Bibliography

www.library.yale.edu/rsc/history/portugal/index.html

 

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Portugal:_Primary_Documents

 

Portuguese Empire Timeline

http://www.timelines.info/history/empires_and_civilizations/portuguese_empire/

 

 

 

 

Student Assessment:

 

The students must present three reviews (reading-notes) about articles or book chapters specifically recommended. It is one reading-note for each part of the Program. Each one of reading-notes must have 1300-1500 words.