Cavaleiros e Escudeiros no Porto de inícios do século XV

This paper seeks to understand the verifiable presence of “knights” and “squires”in the municipal council meetings in Porto in the late 14thand early 15thcenturies, using the books of “Atas de Vereação” of the period under analysis, but also by crossing with other documentary sources.We try to understand how this reality coexisted with the privilege that the city had long held and for which it permanently fought for centuries, at least until the reign of D. Manuel I, which prevented the residence and/or stay of noblemen within the walls of the city.

O Porto visto pelo Doutor João de Barros em meados do século XVI

In the middle of the 16thcentury, Doutor João de Barros wrote Geographia d'Entre Douro e Minho e Tras-os-Montes,a book that represented an important geographic and chorographic account of those regions, with interesting details that include not only urban and architectural descriptions, but also elements related to economic activities, social relationships, devotions,and legends, among many others. The city of Porto stands out for the detailed descriptionin this book, recently republished. The analysis ofother contemporarysources and recent historiographic studies will enlighten us about the historical rigor of this 16thcentury account.

O Porto e a sua região, séculos XI-XVI

This themed dossier that the “História. Revista da Faculdade de Letras” understood to consecrate to a medieval Porto(and its termo) that goes from the sixteenth century to mid / final of the XVI century for a small contribution to shake the almost stagnant watersof the history of the city

Emigração e rede familiar. Os Mello e Souza-de Abragão ao Brasil oitocentista

The text starts from the concept of family network to frame the migratory movement and the installation of a male part of a large family from Abragão, Penafiel, in Brazil, following the previous migration of a cognate branch.In the middle of the19th century, we found several elements of the Mello e Sousa family establishedin the trade of Rio de Janeiro, with close connections at an early stage and later autonomous routes. We seek to follow the backing of these emigrants, signaling family support and commercial transactions on the most relevant individual life histories.

Cristãs-novas condenadas pelo Tribunal do Santo Ofício de Lisboa (século XVII)

This study focuses on the inquisitorial processes of ten new Crypto-Jewish women convicted by the Court of the Holy Office of Lisbon between 1662 and 1694. The analysis of this documentary is essential to understand the institution's position in these cases, revealing the crypto-Jewish practices that ledtothe condemnation of the crypto-Jewish women. In addition, the documentationshow strategies of personal resistanceand community protection inCourt.Women individual inventories of goods will also be considered in this analysis, related with their wealthand religious beliefs

Os forais medievais do burgo velho do Porto. Rutura ou continuidade?

The medieval foraisof Gaia and Vila Nova, from 1255 and 1288, respectively, were assigned to the same locality, the “Burgo Velho do Porto”. Theseforaisare the only ones of royal origin attributed to a vast territory located between the Ave river, in the north, and the Mondego river, in the south. A profusely populated and “seignorized” territory. The pertinence of the analysis of these two acts is to understand in what political context they were carried out. What objective did D. Afonso III and D. Dinis have when they granted them? Are they two complementary documents and substitutes for each other or different foundational acts? What powers were confronted in that territory that led those two monarchs to intervene? Our analysis is not about the local political organization or the socioeconomic characterization of the community. But to observe what impact these contracts had as an instrument of the royal affirmation policy in the medieval world.

As eleições legislativas de 1921 no Alentejo

This study focuses on the 1922 legislative elections that took place in the six electoral districtsof the Alentejo (Portugal).It addresses topics related to political contextualization, the choice of candidates for deputies, the electoral campaign, clientelism, electoral fraud and agreements.It also presents a review of the electoral results of the Alentejo, moving away from the numbers followed by Portuguese historiography.

O “livro antigo” na biblioteca do Museu de Etnografia e História do Douro-Litoral.

This study is the result of the research work developed under two stages carried out in the North Regional Directorate of Culture, one in 2012/2013 and another in 2017. We had the opportunity to analyse "old book" units that are part of the library of the extinct Museum of Ethnography and History of Douro-Litoral, which is currently in the Palace of the Viscount of Vilar de Allen, commonly known forCasa de Allen. We intend to disclose the existence of this bibliographic heritage and describe some of its characteristics, trying to understand its insertion and relationship with the old museum.

Un contributo sullo studio dei castelli cabeça de terra (XI-XIII secolo). Il caso del castello della terra de Refojos

The aim of this paper is Ito examine the case of the castle cabeça de terra ofRefojos. On this castlethere are very few written documents, dated between XI and XIII centuries and labile and uncertain material evidence. Due to the scarcity of sources, a comparative analysis will be carried out based on the castles cabeça de terraprovided with more documentation, demonstrating how the multidisciplinary and comparative approach can be an appropriate methodology for the study and understanding of medieval defensive elements