The Global History of Portugal From Pre-History to the Modern World

by Fiolhais, Carlos D.; Franco, José Eduardo; Paiva, José Pedro

• ISBN13: 9781789761047
• ISBN10: 1789761042
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-03-01
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press

Summary

For thousands of years Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions, and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering, and resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters grouped into five parts: Pre-history, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern period, and Modern World. Each chapter begins with an event, interpreted in the light of global history. Each part opens with an introduction, offering a perspective of the period in question. The three Editors, five Scientific Coordinators (João Luís Cardoso, Carlos Fabião, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Cátia Antunes, and António Costa Pinto) and ninety Contributors offer a critical and analytical synthesis of the history that originated in Portuguese territory or passed through it, stimulating the process of encounter and dis-encounter in today’s global world. The history presented gives special attention to the world that moulded Portugal and the Portuguese, and to the ways Portugal configured the world. It seeks to identify and understand the transversal entanglements of historic impact and the impulses these gave to the construction of Portugal and the world. Contemporary reflection and academic scholarship on the global history of leading nations has stimulated a rethinking of the past and a more comprehensive recognition of legacy. Historians can no longer overlook the wider world with which their country of investigation has interacted. Portugal’s role in the dynamic circulation of peoples and ideas makes its global history not only unique by way of what took place but also in terms of a potential academic template for better understanding of how the past shapes the present, and more particularly the importance of acknowledging a country’s past historic mis-steps and how these are dealt with by contemporary populations.

Author Biography

Carlos Fiolhais is Full Professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra and Historian of Science. José Eduardo Franco is Researcher-Coordinator and Full Professor at Universidade Aberta. José Pedro Paiva is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Coimbra.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements General Introduction Carlos Fiolhais, José Eduardo Franco and José Pedro Paiva Part I Prehistory and Proto–history Introduction to Part I – From Modern Humans to the Advent of Writing João Luís Cardoso 240,000–10,000 BC – From Neanderthal Man to Homo sapiens João Cascalheira and Nuno Bicho 5500–4500 BC – The Spread of Farming and Domestication of Animals António Faustino Carvalho 2700–1800 BC – The Bell Beaker Question: Origin and Diffusion During the Third Millennium BC João Luís Cardoso 2000–800 BC – Long–distance Trading in the Bronze Age Raquel Vilaça Ninth to Fifth Centuries BC – The Phoenicians in Portugal Ana Margarida Arruda Part II Antiquity Introduction to Part II – From the Roman Empire to Gothic Iberia Carlos Fabião 218–19 BC – The Romans in the Iberian Peninsula: From Conquered Land to Imperial Province Carlos Fabião 155–139 BC – The Lusitanian Wars and the True Viriathus Amílcar Guerra 2nd Century BC to the Fourth Century AD – The Marketplace in the Roman Empire Catarina Viegas 139 BC–14 AD – Aligning with the Empire: Language Amílcar Guerra First Century BC – Where Does the World End? Amílcar Guerra First Century BC – The Emergence of Cities Catarina Viegas 80 BC – The Impact of the Roman Civil Wars Carlos Fabião 16–15 BC – Founding of the Roman Province of Lusitania Catarina Viegas First Century BC to the Second Century AD: Environmental Threats Catarina Viegas 17–23 – The Tides According to Strabo Amílcar Guerra First Century – Between Seas: A Historical and Geographical Constant Carlos Fabião Fourth Century – Administrative Reform of the Roman Empire Pedro C. Carvalho 409–411 – The Arrival of the Barbarians Pedro C. Carvalho Second Half of the Fourth Century – A United Peninsula Under the Goths Carlos Fabião Part III The Middle Ages Introduction to Part III – From the Advent of Islam to the Conquest of Ceuta Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa 711 – Confrontation and Interaction: Islam in the Iberian Peninsula Hermenegildo Fernandes 844 – What Remained from the Time of the Vikings? Hélio Pires 882 – Evolution of the Handwritten Text Maria José Azevedo Santos 1089 – From Romanesque to Gothic: Aesthetic Forms José Custódio Vieira da Silva 1128 – Influences and External Relations in a County That Gave Birth to a Kingdom Luís Carlos Amaral 1128 – Fighting in the Name of Faith: Military Orders in Portugal Luís Filipe Oliveira 1140 – Afonso Henriques, Portugalensium Rex, Son of Theresa of Léon and Henry of Burgundy António Resende de Oliveira and Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa 1146 – Marrying for Love of the Crown Manuela Santos Silva 1147 – Lisbon: From Conquest to Capital Amélia Aguiar Andrade and Maria João Branco 1153 – A Religion Without Borders: Religious Orders João Luís Inglês Fontes 1174 – The Language Spoken and Written by the Portuguese António Manuel Ribeiro Rebelo 1196 – From Latin Literature to Portuguese Literature António Resende de Oliveira 1231 – From Fernando Martins to Saint Anthony of Lisbon: A Saint for All the World Eleonora Lombardo and José Francisco Meirinhos 1276 – Pope John XXI, Portuguese Clergyman and Universal Pastor Armando Norte 1290 – A University that Would Develop a World Profile Saul António Gomes 1293 – The Merchants’ Guild: The Ports, the King and Portuguese Trade within European Networks Amândio J. M. Barros 1297 – The Treaty of Alcañices and Establishment of a Border with Neighbouring Threats J. A. de Sottomayor–Pizarro 1348 – The Black Death: The Near “Global” Plague Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho 1385 – Aljubarrota: An Ancestral Enemy, an Old Alliance and Reinforcement of the Country’s Identity