Portuguese Historiography

Code:

HISTO054

Acronym:

HISTPO

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in History

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
HISTO	40	Study Plan - History	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Aims:
Introductory note: This course subject aims to discuss the issues related to the development of Cliology in Portugal, since the beginning of a history of recognised scientific status (late 18th century /early 19th century) to the Cliology questions raised at the start of the new millennium.

1) Provide students with knowledge on the current status of the History of Historiography.
2) Familiarise students with the problem of national historiographies.
3) Propose a particular timeline (18th to 19th centuries) and justify it properly.
4) Provide those attending these classes with the basic knowledge on the series of Portuguese “Schools” of History in the timeline proposed.
5) Familiarise Portuguese Historiography students with (historiographical) texts by outstanding authors of the programme.
6) If there is a place for historiographers in Portugal today, Portuguese Historiography students should be told why: this is the ultimate aim.

Program

1. Introduction
1.1. National historiographies: historiographical approach-specific problems.
1.2. Is there a Historiography of Portuguese Historiography?
1.3. Chronological options: from the Enlightenment period till today.

2. At the dawn of scientific history (ca. 1772-1834)
2.1. The Enlightenment dimension: Verney, Pombal, the University, the Academy of Sciences, and others – a time of reforms.
2.2. Achievements (I): João Pedro Ribeiro and the Paleography Class.
2.3. Achievements (II): academic memorialism.
2.4. Achievements (III): erudition and exile – the Viscount of Santarém.

3. A time for Liberalism (s) (1834-1910)
3.1. How do we describe a “19th century Portuguese historian”? (multiplicity or frail frameworks?).
3.2. Herculano: presence and absence.
3.3. Oliveira Martins: Historiography / Theory of History / Social Thought …
3.4. The History of Men of Science: lawyers, doctors, mathematicians, littéraires, military, journalists and others in view of Cliology.
3.5. History-hobby (though committed …): Costa Lobo and Alberto Sampaio.
3.6. At the close of an era: the “Archivo Historico Portuguez” [The Portuguese History Archive].

4. Advances and dilemmas of the 20th century Portugal (1910-ca. 1980).
4.1. Legacies of a lengthy 19th century.
4.2. Historiography and political regimes (I).
4.3. The dawn of a university framework: few strengths and many weaknesses.
4.4. 1950: the “ground zero” of Portuguese Historiography”?
4.5. The 50s /70s: modern surges and structural blockages.

5. Nowadays (ca. 1980-2005)
5.1. Historiography and political regimes (II).
5.2. Higher Education in History and historiographical production.
5.2.1. The reproduction of university frameworks.
5.2.2. The reforms of the first Constitutional Governments (1976-1980) and related consequences in the field of History.
5.2.3. The boom in academic Historiography. New and old paths. Time and/or thematic specialisations.
5.2.4. At the turn of the century: halts, stagnation, continuities, drifts ...

Mandatory literature

MARQUES , A. H. de Oliveira [Ed.]; Antologia da Historiografia Portuguesa, 2 vols., 2. ed., Europa;America, Mem Martins, 1983
HOMEM, Armando Luís de Carvalho; «Historiadores (Os), esses desconhecidos», Revista Portuguesa de História, XXIX (1994), pp. 33-53., Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Instituto de Historia Economica e Social, 1994
NUNES, João Paulo Avelãs; História (A) Económica e Social na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. O historicismo neo-metódico: ascensão e queda de um paradigma historiográfico, 1911-1974 , Instituto de Inovação Educacional, Lisboa, 1995
MARQUES, A. H. de Oliveira, COELHO, Maria Helena da Cruz; DIAS, João J. Alves; ROSAS, Fernando; FRANÇA, José-Augusto; «Historiografia portuguesa», in Portugal Moderno: Artes e Letras, dir. J.-A. FRANÇA, pp. 189-207., Pomo, Lisboa, 1991
GODINHO, Vitorino Magalhães; Ensaios, III. Sobre Teoria da História e Historiografia , Sa da Costa, Lisboa, 1971
HOMEM, Armando Luís de Carvalho; «Revistas universitárias de História no Portugal do século XX», Revista de História das Ideias, 18 (1996), pp. 339-372., Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Instituto de Historia e Teoria das Ideias, 1996
VAZQUEZ DE PRADA, V.; OLÁBARRI, I.; FLORISTAN, A. (Ed.); Historiografia (La) en Occidente desde 1945. Actitudes, tendencias y problemas metodologicos, EUNSA, Pamplona, 1985, EUNSA, Pamplona, 1985
MARQUES, A. H. de Oliveira; Ensaios de Historiografia Portuguesa, Palas, Lisboa, 1988
TORGAL, Luís Reis; MENDES, José M. Amado; CATROGA, Fernando; História da História em Portugal: séculos XIX-XX, Circulo de Leitores, Lisboa, 1996

Complementary Bibliography

MOTA, Isabel Ferreira da; Academia (A) Real da História. Os intelectuais, o poder cultural e o poder monárquico no séc. XVIII , Minerva, Coimbra, 2003
BARREIRA, Anibal Jose de Barros; Aspectos do pensamento histórico em Portugal no século XIX, dissertação de licenciatura/UP, dactilo-policop., Ediçao do Autor, Porto, 1970
CATROGA (Fernando), ; Memória, História e Historiografia, Coimbra, Quarteto, 2001., Quarteto, Coimbra, 2001. ISBN: 972-8717-09-01
HOMEM, Armando Luís de Carvalho; Introdução à História (Programa, conteúdos, métodos, bibliografia), relatório para provas de agregação/UP, policop. , Ed. do Autor, Porto, 1993

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theory explanation (and discussion) of programme themes; reading and critical comments on historiographical texts.

keywords

Humanities > History > Contemporary History
Humanities > History > History of science
Humanities > History > History of social sciences
Humanities > History > Political history
Humanities > History > Social history

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
Examination	Exame	2,00		2012-07-14
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Study	Estudo autónomo	104	2012-07-14
	Total:	104,00

Eligibility for exams

Mandatory 75 % class attendance, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam: 100 %.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.

Classification improvement

By repeating the final exam.