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Contents for Volume 2 | p. ix |
Abbreviations | p. xiii |
List of maps | p. xv |
Preface | p. xvii |
Maps | p. xxiii |
Introduction: The Geographical Setting | p. 1 |
Hunter-Gatherers to Iron Age Farmers | p. 5 |
The early hunter-gatherers | p. 5 |
The Neolithic revolution | p. 7 |
The metallurgical cultures | p. 8 |
The coming of the Celts | p. 13 |
Orientalisation | p. 16 |
The Roman Experience | p. 20 |
The Roman conquest | p. 20 |
Towns and roads | p. 23 |
Villas and mines | p. 26 |
Free and slave | p. 28 |
Roman administration and the idea of Portugal | p. 30 |
The gods | p. 32 |
The Germanic Kingdoms | p. 34 |
The barbarian invasions | p. 34 |
The Suevic kingdom | p. 37 |
The Visigoths | p. 40 |
Society and economy | p. 42 |
Church, faith and phobias | p. 46 |
Gharb al-Andalus | p. 51 |
The Muslim conquest | p. 51 |
Islamic rule | p. 53 |
Social and economic fabric | p. 57 |
Muslim faith and culture | p. 61 |
Christians and Jews under Islam | p. 62 |
The Christian Reconquest of the North | p. 65 |
The Medieval Kingdom | p. 70 |
The condado Portucalense | p. 70 |
Afonso Henriques and the founding of the kingdom | p. 74 |
Expanding south | p. 77 |
The fates of the conquered | p. 82 |
Settling and developing | p. 83 |
Castles, churches and religious institutions | p. 86 |
Crown, seigneurs and ecclesiastical rights | p. 90 |
Afonso III and King Dinis | p. 93 |
The Fourteenth Century | p. 95 |
Becoming a nation | p. 95 |
The economic base | p. 97 |
Towns and the beginnings of commercial capitalism | p. 100 |
The ordering of society: theory and practice | p. 102 |
The Black Death and its aftermath | p. 107 |
Afonso IV and Pedro I | p. 111 |
Fernando and the Castilian wars | p. 113 |
Dynastic crisis: a Castilian usurper or a Portuguese bastard? | p. 117 |
Aljubarrota | p. 120 |
The Making of Avis Portugal | p. 122 |
The coming of Joao I: a bourgeois revolution? | p. 122 |
Settling the dynasty: war, peace and royal marriages | p. 124 |
Change and continuity in the noble estate | p. 126 |
King Duarte and the regency of Prince Pedro | p. 128 |
Regression under Afonso V | p. 131 |
Joao II, noble conspiracies and royal power | p. 133 |
Joao II: the later years | p. 136 |
Law and taxes | p. 137 |
The changing art of war | p. 140 |
The Golden Age | p. 143 |
The character and contradictions of the Golden Age | p. 143 |
The Golden Age economy | p. 145 |
The court and the king's majesty | p. 149 |
The Castilian connection and the Jews | p. 151 |
Elite society, government and bureaucracy | p. 154 |
Church reform without a Reformation | p. 159 |
Social welfare and the Misericordia | p. 162 |
The Portuguese literary Renaissance | p. 163 |
The Arts | p. 166 |
The Tarnished Age | p. 172 |
Joao III and his fated family | p. 172 |
Sebastiao and Henrique | p. 173 |
A faltering economy? | p. 176 |
The coming of the Inquisition | p. 180 |
The Inquisition in action | p. 182 |
Portugal, the Council of Trent and the Jesuits | p. 186 |
The fate of Letters and the Arts | p. 189 |
The crisis of 1580 and the succession of Filipe I | p. 192 |
Habsburg Portugal | p. 198 |
Filipe I in Lisbon | p. 198 |
Institutional change, marginalisation and ambiguous autonomy | p. 200 |
The Habsburg economy | p. 204 |
The union of crowns and foreign relations | p. 209 |
The reform program of Olivares | p. 212 |
The defection of the Portuguese nobility | p. 215 |
The revolt of 1640 | p. 218 |
Restoration and Reconstruction | p. 221 |
The Restoration | p. 221 |
Joao IV, war and diplomacy | p. 225 |
Afonso VI and national survival | p. 228 |
Pedro II and the stabilising of the Braganca monarchy | p. 232 |
The internal balance of power | p. 235 |
The seventeenth-century cortes | p. 240 |
Restoration Portugal in the international economy | p. 243 |
The Age of Gold and Baroque Splendour | p. 249 |
Setting the scene | p. 249 |
Gold, diamonds and Joao V | p. 252 |
Population and agriculture | p. 256 |
The wine industry and the patterns of overseas trade | p. 259 |
Eighteenth-century Joanine absolutism | p. 264 |
Baroque culture and the royal court | p. 268 |
The Enlightenment and the Portuguese public | p. 274 |
The Age of Pombal | p. 280 |
Pombal and Pombalism | p. 280 |
The 1755 earthquake | p. 283 |
Pombal and Portuguese trade | p. 286 |
Pombaline industrial and agrarian reform | p. 289 |
The cowing of the higher nobility | p. 292 |
Pombaline regalism and the expulsion of the Jesuits | p. 298 |
Defence and education | p. 305 |
The Late Eighteenth Century: Finale of the Old Regime | p. 311 |
Maria I and the viradeira | p. 311 |
The Marian economy and the Marian Enlightenment | p. 314 |
Subversion, police and internal security | p. 319 |
Prince Joao and a world in turmoil | p. 322 |
1807: the ano tormentoso | p. 328 |
Glossary | p. 334 |
Bibliography | p. 341 |
Index | p. 356 |
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