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Empowering Interactions
The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an approach does not provide a complete picture. By investigating the importance of local and individual initiatives that contributed to state building from the late middle ages through to the nineteenth century, this volume shows how popular pressure could influence those in power to develop new institut...
Crusading at the Edges of Europe
This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two countries became strong kingdoms and important powers internationally by their participation in the crusading movement. Communication in the Middle Ages was better developed than often assumed and institutions, ideas, and military technology was exchanged rapidly, meaning it was possible to coordinate great military expeditions across the geographical periphery of Western Europe. Both Denmark and Portugal were closely connected to the sea and developed strong fleets, at the entrance to the Baltic and in the Mediterranean Seas respectively. They also both had religious borders, to the pagan Wends and to the Muslims, that were pushed forward in almost continuous crusades throughout the centuries. Crusading at the Edges of Europe follows the major campaigns of the kings and crusaders in Denmark and Portugal and compares war-technology and crusading ideology, highlighting how the countries learned from each other and became organised for war.
The Voice of the People?
Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged. Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society con...
The Evolution of the Portuguese Atlantic: Essays in Honour of Ursula Lamb
This special issue volume of the Portuguese Studies Review in honor of Ursula Lamb (1914-1996) presents studies by Timothy Coates, A.J.R. Russell-Wood, Ivana Elbl, Alberto Vieira, Martin Malcolm Elbl, Gerardo A. Lorenzino, César Braga-Pinto, Geraldo Pieroni, Janaína Amado, Mark Cooper Emerson, Ernst Pijning, and Kirsten Shultz. The studies explore the themes of settlement, colonization, ethnogenesis, banishment and exile, the intellectual and political construction of colonial identities, cross-cultural urbanism, and regulation of commerce. The volume also includes a bibliography of Ursula Lamb's works.
The Global History of Portugal
For thousands of years, Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering and resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters grouped into five parts: Pre-history, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern period and Modern World. Each chapter begins with an event, interpreted in the light of global history. Each part opens with an introduction, offering a perspective of the period in question. The three Editors, five Scientific Coordinators (João Luís...
A arte da guerra em Portugal: 1245 a 1367
O nosso objecto de estudo seria, portanto, a organização e a prática da guerra em Portugal durante o período anterior ao das Guerras Fernandinas, observadas, como havia já sido feito por João Gouveia Monteiro, numa perspectiva de “história da guerra total” e não apenas num plano puramente marcial, da estratégia e da táctica. De facto, como sublinhava Robert L. O´Connell, num estudo sobre as raízes sociológicas dos conflitos militares, a guerra “não é simplesmente violência armada. É antes uma instituição específica, premeditada e dirigida por uma forma de estrutura de governo; ligada com questões de natureza social e não individual; envolvendo a participação (ainda que nem sempre entusiástica) dos combatentes e que pretende obter resultados duradouros e não efémeros”. É esta instituição e as suas principais vertentes que procuraremos compreender melhor ao longo deste trabalho.
Urbanismo na composição de Portugal
Esta dissertação de doutoramento pretendeu preencher parte de uma lacuna das historiografias medieval e do urbanismo portuguesas: questionar o programa e a forma da cidade medieval descodificando, por um lado, os contextos que a explicam e justificam, percebendo, por outro, o como e o quanto o urbanismo foi um instrumento de construção e consolidação da nacionalidade. A estratégia para essa análise, patente no próprio índice, consistiu em decompor o todo, analisando as partes, articulando-as no seu processo evolutivo, nunca perdendo de vista os agentes, do rei aos cidadãos. O recurso às vilas de fundação foi, em algumas situações, o meio para encontrar os protótipos mentais de quem decidiu e executou. Entre muitas outras conclusões confirmaram-se duas teses simples: que, apesar de nuances que decorrem das características do território e das gentes, o urbanismo medieval português partilha as características e a cronologia do europeu; que a compreensão desse urbanismo é fundamental para a entendimento dos processos usados pelos portugueses nos territórios que ocuparam na expansão e colonização ultramarina da Idade Moderna.
Parliaments, Estates & Representation/Parlements, États & Représentation
Parliaments, Estates and Representation - Parlements, États et Représentation is the journal of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (ICHRPI) - Commission internationale pour l'histoire des Assemblées d'États (CIHAE). It appears as an annual volume.
