2024
Themes of History of Modern Portugal
Name: Themes of History of Modern Portugal
Code: HIS02400L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This UC, complementing the training of students in the History of Portugal, bets on the consultation of sources for the construction of works, as on the active participation of students, based on conceptual/hematic enrichment, with dynamic resources on themes that are determinant of this period.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectives: To study events, issues and cyclical dynamics of Portugal in the Modern period; seize the structuring vectors of the Portuguese reality of the Ancien Régime, by inserting it in the context of the peninsular and European world-economies of the time; dominate the concepts and specific vocabulary to the various thematic areas; capture the state of art concerning the main issues raised by the classical and recent literature on the period; identify the main sources of the period; create interest by the research and create conditions to future researches.
Competences: Develop the ability to search, select and interpret information; increase the capacity of reading and interpretation of statistical and cartographic data; develop the intellectual skills of analysis and synthesis, of organization and planning of the work in group (study / research), and simultaneously the capacity of independent learning and recognition of the importance of continuous updating.
Competences: Develop the ability to search, select and interpret information; increase the capacity of reading and interpretation of statistical and cartographic data; develop the intellectual skills of analysis and synthesis, of organization and planning of the work in group (study / research), and simultaneously the capacity of independent learning and recognition of the importance of continuous updating.
Contents
1 Humanism and Renaissance: the specificity of Portugal
2 The impact of the Counter-Reformation in Portugal. The Inquisition. Censorship.
3 The ecclesiastical power: the post-Tridentine context and the religious experiences.
4 Production structures and tax burdens: social appropriation of land and the legal system of land ownership, the domestic market and the colonies.
5 The construction of the central political-institutional, legal and political culture, the structure of the modern state. Local authorities and peripheral administration of the Crown. The military and diplomatic issues.
6 The social space of the Ancien Régime: inequality, privilege and hierarchy as structuring brands of the society; forms of social control and representation.
7 Material culture and everyday life spaces. The Reading and the writing; social and political contexts of cultural production.
8 Forms of violence and control. Mental models and cultural paradigms at the end of Ancien Régime in Portugal.
2 The impact of the Counter-Reformation in Portugal. The Inquisition. Censorship.
3 The ecclesiastical power: the post-Tridentine context and the religious experiences.
4 Production structures and tax burdens: social appropriation of land and the legal system of land ownership, the domestic market and the colonies.
5 The construction of the central political-institutional, legal and political culture, the structure of the modern state. Local authorities and peripheral administration of the Crown. The military and diplomatic issues.
6 The social space of the Ancien Régime: inequality, privilege and hierarchy as structuring brands of the society; forms of social control and representation.
7 Material culture and everyday life spaces. The Reading and the writing; social and political contexts of cultural production.
8 Forms of violence and control. Mental models and cultural paradigms at the end of Ancien Régime in Portugal.
Teaching Methods
In each academic year will be selected from 4 to 6 subjects, taught in modules.
The emphasis will be in theorethical-practical classes. Throughout the semester will take place three Seminar sessions to appreciate the evolution of the research works (see evaluation). The last one shall be equal to the final presentation of the work.
Evaluation:
- A research paper on a topic proposed by the student, but that must be accepted by one of the teachers (40%), with oral presentation (20%). The work will be done in group (3 persons maximum). Its preparation will be monitored in tutorial sessions;
- A frequency (40%).
The emphasis will be in theorethical-practical classes. Throughout the semester will take place three Seminar sessions to appreciate the evolution of the research works (see evaluation). The last one shall be equal to the final presentation of the work.
Evaluation:
- A research paper on a topic proposed by the student, but that must be accepted by one of the teachers (40%), with oral presentation (20%). The work will be done in group (3 persons maximum). Its preparation will be monitored in tutorial sessions;
- A frequency (40%).
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
