2024
History of Évora City
Name: History of Évora City
Code: HIS12023L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectives:
To identify the claim area of the city and the geomorphological conditions of its implementation and
evolution. To study the social, political, mental, economic and cultural dynamics of the history of the city of
Evora, in a diachronic perspective. Manage a set of items that allow both the comparison of Evora with
other Portuguese, Hispanic or Mediterranean cities and the perception of differences between them.
To understand the main features that have defined its history: power, social groups and institutions. To
understand the peculiar dynamic of the relationship between urban and rural areas . To understand the
contribution of Évora to regional and national history.
To identify the claim area of the city and the geomorphological conditions of its implementation and
evolution. To study the social, political, mental, economic and cultural dynamics of the history of the city of
Evora, in a diachronic perspective. Manage a set of items that allow both the comparison of Evora with
other Portuguese, Hispanic or Mediterranean cities and the perception of differences between them.
To understand the main features that have defined its history: power, social groups and institutions. To
understand the peculiar dynamic of the relationship between urban and rural areas . To understand the
contribution of Évora to regional and national history.
Contents
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL RELEVANCE OF A CASE STUDY
I MEDIEVAL ÉVORA
1. Évora of the reconquest: inheritance, continuity and changes
2. Christian Évora (12-15 c.)
2.1. Occupation and control of the space: institutions and powers
2.2. Urban morphology
3 . Evora: a city in the center of the kingdom.
II ÉVORA IN MODERN PERIOD
1. Évora and the south
1.1. Demographic, social and economic issues
1.2. The city and the presence of the Court
1.3. Powers and institutions; the Inquisition
2. Évora and the kingdom
3. The looks from the others: from de Munzer descriptions to the foreign reports of the 18th c.
III CONTEMPORARY ÉVORA
1 - Population dynamics and urban morphology
1.1. Population growth and settlement in the south
1.2. Évora in the Portuguese urban network hierarchy
1.3. Urban morphology and city expansion:
2 - Spaces and powers in the city
2.1 - The secular city and the religious city: changes and continuities
2.2. - Local government and the State
3 - Daily and weekly urban experiences
I MEDIEVAL ÉVORA
1. Évora of the reconquest: inheritance, continuity and changes
2. Christian Évora (12-15 c.)
2.1. Occupation and control of the space: institutions and powers
2.2. Urban morphology
3 . Evora: a city in the center of the kingdom.
II ÉVORA IN MODERN PERIOD
1. Évora and the south
1.1. Demographic, social and economic issues
1.2. The city and the presence of the Court
1.3. Powers and institutions; the Inquisition
2. Évora and the kingdom
3. The looks from the others: from de Munzer descriptions to the foreign reports of the 18th c.
III CONTEMPORARY ÉVORA
1 - Population dynamics and urban morphology
1.1. Population growth and settlement in the south
1.2. Évora in the Portuguese urban network hierarchy
1.3. Urban morphology and city expansion:
2 - Spaces and powers in the city
2.1 - The secular city and the religious city: changes and continuities
2.2. - Local government and the State
3 - Daily and weekly urban experiences
Teaching Methods
This course aims to articulate lectures with comments from sources and historiographical texts in order to
endow the student with the ability to read and critically analyze coeval sources .In terms of evaluation
elements we propose a continuous assessment in which it will be included :oral partici
endow the student with the ability to read and critically analyze coeval sources .In terms of evaluation
elements we propose a continuous assessment in which it will be included :oral partici
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
