This document is a tribute to the historian António Henrique Rodrigo de Oliveira Marques (1933-2007), one of the key names in Portuguese historiography in the …
BARTON, Simon (2015). Conquerors, Brides and Concubines. Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Penn, 264 p. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4675-9.
This article summarizes the main conclusions of the author’s doctoral dissertation. It examines the behavior of the nobility and the Military Orders in their dealings …
Ph.D. Dissertations in Medieval History are well represented in Portuguese universities. The development of Masters programs from the 1980s onwards and the increasing number of …
This article analyses recently published Portuguese history books, paying particular attention to how the authors record and write about the Middle Ages.
References to the past have always been a common trope in political discourse. Either alluding to more recent or distant periods, processes, events, figures, or …