Administrative Structures

Code:

MHP004

Acronym:

EADM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
E-learning page:	https://moodle.up.pt/
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in History and Heritage

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MHP	0	MHP - Study Plan	1	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: The course will be taught in Portuguese. Erasmus students who wish to take the assessment in English or Spanish should contact the instructor in advance.

Objectives

One of the fundamental objectives of this Course Unit is to encourage students to understand the different dynamics of organisation and appropriation of the territory, how it was structured culturally and normatively. Secondly, this course aims to understand how these dynamics were translated into information and how these are and can be organised in public and private archives. This objective is crucial, considering that some students have chosen to specialise in historical archives. In this sense, it is also about understanding how guardianship processes are structured and how they diversify. Another aim is to observe the mechanisms and means of behaviour regulation (social control). Students must acquire the ability to carefully read a legal history bibliography, considering the concepts and terminology that characterise current historiography.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the course, students should be able to identify, describe and critically analyse administrative structures and their impact on cultural heritage. They should also be able to understand the historical contexts and challenges of heritage management in different chronologies, geographies and scales. Finally, students should develop theoretical and methodological skills that can provide answers to specific research problems.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable

Program

1. Spatial planning policy
a. Representations, memory and inventions
b. Regulatory framework conditions
 
2. Relations between centre and periphery
a. Central, regional and local administration
b. Organisational structures, competencies and functions
 
3. Institutions and networks of power
a. Secular and religious administration
b. Public administration and private administration
c. Administration of estates: family, associations, companies, etc.
 
4. Disciplining society
a. Judicial systems
b. From the informal to the formal sphere

Mandatory literature

Capela, José Viriato et al. (coord); O Município Português na História na Cultura e no desenvolvimento Regional, Braga: Universidade do Minho, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 1998. ISBN: 9729589860
Castells, Manuel ; A Era da Informação: Economia, Sociedade e Cultura. Vol. I, A Sociedade em Rede, Lisboa: Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2002. ISBN: 9789723114119
Cunha, Mafalda Soares da e Fonseca, Teresa (eds); Os Municípios no Portugal Moderno: Dos Forais Manuelinos às Reformas Liberais, Évora: Publicações do CIDEHUS, 2005. ISBN: 978-972-772-526-7
Foucault, Michel; Vigiar e Punir. O nascimento da prisão, Lisboa: Edições 70, 2013. ISBN: 978-972-44-1766-0
Herzog, Tamar; Fronteiras da posse. Portugal e Espanha na América e na Europa, Lisboa: ICS, 2018. ISBN: 9789726714675
Hespanha, António Manuel ; “A constituição do império português. Revisão de alguns enviesamentos correntes”, in João Fragoso, Maria de Fátima Silva Gouvea, Maria Fernanda Bicalho (org), O Antigo Regime nos Trópicos: a dinâmica imperial portuguesa (séculos XVI-XVIII), Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2001. ISBN: 978-8520005644
Hespanha, António Manuel ; As vésperas do Leviathan. Instituições e Poder Político em Portugal no Século XVII, Coimbra: Almedina, 1994. ISBN: 9789724007823
Hespanha, António Manuel; História das Instituições na época medieval e moderna, Coimbra: Almedina, 1982
Oliveira, César (dir); História dos municípios e do poder local. Dos finais da Idade Média à União Europeia, Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 1996. ISBN: 972-756-071-3
Silveira, Luís Nuno Espinha da; Território e poder. Nas origens do Estado contemporâneo em Portugal, Cascais: Patrimonia Histórica, 1997. ISBN: 972-744-021-5
Tomás, Ana, Valério, Nuno; Autarquias locais e divisões administrativas em Portugal: 1836-2013, Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão – GHES. Documento de trabalho/Working Paper https://www.repository.utl.pt/handle/10400.5/19157, 2019

Complementary Bibliography

Caetano, Marcelo; Estudos de História da Administração Pública Portuguesa, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 1994. ISBN: 972-0644-7
Homem, António Pedro Barbas; O Espírito das Instituições. Um Estudo de História do Estado, Coimbra: Almedina, 2006. ISBN: 9789724027395
Silva, Cristina Nogueira da, Xavier, Ângela Barreto, Cardim, Pedro (org); António Manuel Hespanha: entre a história e o direito, Coimbra: Almedina, 2015. ISBN: 9789724057965

Comments from the literature

Throughout the sessions, specific bibliography will be indicated for each theme.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The methodology used combines lectures of a more theoretical nature with subsequent laboratory work to research the literature and identify and locate primary sources in the relevant archives, repositories, etc. Analysing information in the classroom will help students develop critical research skills and intensify the development of other academic skills. The aim is to link the programme approaches to students’ research projects. This is an essential pedagogical goal, especially as this course is part of the first-semester curriculum structure where students often do not yet have clearly defined work plans supported by sound bibliographic information.

keywords

Social sciences > Political sciences > Governance
Humanities > History > Modern history
Humanities > History > Social history
Humanities > History > Political history
Humanities > Information science > Archivistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	65,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	15,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	102,00
Frequência das aulas	25,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	5,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

75% compulsory class attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

CF = TE + DT + AO

CF (Final grade)
TE (Written essay) = 65%
PL (Lab work) = 15%
AO (Presentation and discussion of the essay)= 25%

* Lab work consists of discussing texts in class
** The rules for carrying out the work will be presented on the first day of the course and duly published on the Moodle webpage.

Distributed assessment without a final exam, in accordance with the FLUP assessment rules. It consists of a written assignment (weighting 65%), class participation based on the analysis of historiographical texts or primary documents provided in advance (15%) and the presentation and discussion of the written paper (20%). The latter phase precedes the final draft of the written text so that students can incorporate the suggestions made in class.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

By improving/reviewing the written essay.