History of Portugal

Code:

FLUP0750

Acronym:

HP

Instance: 2004/2005 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCPEPL	12	Official Study Plan - LCPEPLE	1	2,5	6	-

Objectives

To provide students with a general and inquiring perspective towards the History of Portugal, focusing on the topics and movements that structured the various historical periods under study.
To present contextual historical frameworks capable of enriching the specific academic groundings of the course in which this subject is enlisted.

Program

I. MEDIEVAL PERIOD

1. Formation of Portugal (10th - 13th centuries)
2. Portugal in the Crisis of the late Middle Ages (14th —15th centuries)

II. EARLY MODERN PERIOD

1. Centralization of power and administrative reforms.
2. Social structure of Portuguese society.
3. Portuguese expansion and the construction of an overseas empire.
4. The reformations under the Marquis of Pombal.

III. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

1. Liberalism
2. Industrialization
3. Social structure
4. Republic
5. "Estado Novo"
6. Recent transformations

Main Bibliography

DICIONÁRIO DE HISTÓRIA DE PORTUGAL, dir. Joel Serrão. 6 vols. Lisboa: Iniciativas Editoriais, s.d.

DICIONÁRIO DE HISTÓRIA DE PORTUGAL. Suplemento, dir. António Barreto; Maria Filomena Mónica. 3 vols. Lisboa: Figueirinhas, 1999-2000. ISBN 972-661-160-1

MARQUES, Oliveira Marques, dir. – História de Portugal. 3 vols. Lisboa: Palas Editores, 1975 – 1986

MATTOSO, José – Identificação de um país: Ensaio sobre as origens de Portugal. 2 vols., Lisboa: Editorial Estampa, 1995

MATTOSO, José, dir. – História de Portugal. 8 vols. Lisboa: Estampa, [D.L. 1993]

SERRÃO, J. Veríssimo, dir. – História de Portugal. 15 vols. Lisboa: Ed. Verbo, 1980-2003

Complementary Bibliography

References to additional readings will be indicated throughout the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

In favouring a theoretical-practical approach to the issues under analysis by means of documents that illustrate the subject matters, classes must still adopt a tendency towards comprehensive overviews of the major issues, keeping in mind the broad range of information to be made available.

Software

To be indicated in class.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

According to the general regulations in force.

Calculation formula of final grade

According to FLUP’s Assessment Regulations.

Examinations or Special Assignments

According to FLUP’s Assessment Regulations.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to FLUP’s Assessment Regulations.

Classification improvement

According to FLUP’s Assessment Regulations.

Observations

Language of instruction: Portuguese.