Power and Institutions in Portugal (15th-18th Century) - 2nd semester
Code
722051266
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Pedro Almeida Cardim
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To have the capacity to use the knowledge acquired throughout the graduation in order to undertake an original survey about the early-modern Portuguese political history.
b) To have the capacity to identify, select and interpret archival and visual information pertinent to the early-modern Portuguese political history.
c) To have the skills indispensable for carrying out original research about early-modern Portuguese political history.
d) To develop the necessary skills to produce an original research work about the early-modern Portuguese political history, in view to further research within a doctoral program.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Politics, institutions and power relations in the current historiography.
2. The foundations of the early-modern political system.
2.1 Power, politics and government, 16th to 18th century.
2.2 Natural order and artificial order.
2.3 The Ancien Régime’s understanding of «administration» – the jurisdictionalist matrix.
2.4 The gradual birth of the «government».
3. The political entities.
3.1 The Family.
3.2 The Church.
3.3 The Nobility.
3.4 The municipal institutions and other communitarian entities.
3.5 The corporations.
3.6 The Crown.
3.7 Kingdoms, Monarchies and Empires.
3.8 The misfits and the outsiders.
4. The Crown’s political-administrative activity.
I – At the Royal Court.
4.1 The royal court as the stage for the relationship between the Crown and the nobility.
4.2 The judicial courts, the representative assemblies and the courtly institutions.
4.3 The decision-making processes: councils, favorites, commissioners and secretaries.
4.4 The distribution of offices and titles.
II – At the territorial level.
4.5 The administrative circumscriptions.
4.6 The administration of justice.
4.7 Viceroys, governors and captains.
4.8 The fiscal administration.
4.9 The military administration.
5. The destabilization of the Ancien Régime’s political system.
5.1 The emergence of a new understanding of the communitarian order.
5.2 The late 18th century political reforms and their transformative effect.
Bibliography
Hespanha, António Manuel (org.), O Antigo Regime (1621-1834), Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1993.
Magalhães, Joaquim Romero (org.), No Alvorecer da Modernidade (1580-1620), Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1993.
Marques, João Francisco & António Camões Gouveia (coords.), Humanismos e Reformas, vol. 2 da História Religiosa de Portugal, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2001.
Meneses, Avelino de Freitas de (org.), Da Restauração ao Ouro do Brasil, vol. VI da Nova História de Portugal, dir. Joel Serrão e A. H. de Oliveira Marques, Lisboa, Presença, 2001.
Monteiro, Nuno Gonçalo, «Os Poderes Locais no Antigo Regime» in César de Oliveira (org.), História dos Municípios e do Poder Local (Dos finais da Idade Média à União Europeia), Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1996, pp. 17-175.
Teaching method
Two types of classes:
-theoretical classes;
-practical classes.
Evaluation method
2 Exams: one midterm exam and one final exam.