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The Middle Ages in the “histories of Portugal” during the democratic period

Conceived as generalist works, the various “histories of Portugal” published after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 reflect some of the great changes in Portuguese historiography during the second half of the twentieth century. This article focuses on a set of themes related with the Portuguese Middle Ages and aims to examine the differences and similarities between the interpretations of the various authors of...

From National Monument to Cultural Heritage. The protection and preservation of...

In 1979, the Portuguese state rectified the 1972 Convention for the Protection of the World Heritage, which, in its 5th article, reinforces the responsibility of the signatory states to protect, preserve and enhance the ‘cultural and natural heritage situated in their territory and under the conditions appropriate to each country’. Aware of the consequences that these legislative milestones have had in the fiel...

Medievalism in José Saramago’s A Segunda Vida de Francisco de Assis: Diffuse Im...

Drawing on medievalism studies and taking the Middle Ages as a heuristic instrument, this article analyses the fictional mechanisms that underpin the possible world created in José Saramago’s drama Francisco de Assis; the meaning that the writing’s present tense imposes upon the past; and the ways in which that past communicated with the present. Particular attention is paid to the transformation undergone by t...

The "Amazing reality" of a new Middle Ages

For decades, Portuguese historiography was marked by a dominant conception that associated History with the nationalist and conservative ideals of the Estado Novo dictatorship (1933-1974). The medieval period deserved special attention in this ideological manipulation, as it was considered to be the “origins of the Nation”. In the 1960s and 1970s occasional signs of renewal began to emerge that sought to incorp...

“What shall I do with this sword?”: Images of historical temporality between th...

The April 25th Revolution brought about radical changes in consciousness and identity among the Portuguese population, challenging decades of historical imagery constructed by the Estado Novo – a process in which the visual arts played a fundamental role. In comparison with certain moments of the Centenary Commemorations (1940), this article seeks to analyze one of the first revivals of a medieval imagery in th...

Religiosity and the justification of euthanasia: A model of mediation (trust in...

This article explores the mediating role of trust in the church and the moderating role of beliefs in life after death in the relationship between religiosity and the justification of euthanasia. Two studies were designed using the latest data from the European Values Study for Portugal (traditional values) and the United Kingdom (secular-rational values). The models were tested in each country using Hayes’s pr...

Decolonizing Europe: Ethnographies of National and Transnational Projects, de P...

Uses of Medieval past in Portugal After April 25, 1974: Between Rupture, Reinte...

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Social Structure and Decolonization in Angola

The first part of this article presents a global view of the social structure of Angola at the present time and examines the historical process - where several fundamental phases are to be distinguished - which gave birth to such structure. It follows an analysis of the importance of the educational system upon the consolidation of such structure. Considering the former analysis it is then studied on generical ...

Ideology and social practice

This is a critical paper on some aspects of the structuralist trend of Althusser and is applied to an historically delimited «result» of such trend. Its effects, although they still persist and continue to influence some investigations have however become sometimes independent of their authors - which is particularly the case of A. Badiou and E. Ipola, but also, at least parttiaJly, of Nicos Poulantzas. On the ...