PhD Thesis by Cristóvão Mata
Tese de Doutoramento em História, ramo de História Moderna, 2019
RESUMO: Esta tese de doutoramento tem como objeto de estudo a história da Casa de Aveiro, uma cas... more RESUMO: Esta tese de doutoramento tem como objeto de estudo a história da Casa de Aveiro, uma casa aristocrática portuguesa cuja existência se localiza entre os anos de 1500 e 1759. Perante a impossibilidade de estudarmos todos os aspetos da sua muito complexa história, desenvolvemos a pesquisa em torno de problemáticas bastante específicas. Desde logo, o objetivo do presente trabalho consiste em perceber por que motivo os recursos administrados pela Casa de Aveiro foram tão importantes para a afirmação social dos seus representantes e respetivos dependentes no contexto da aristocracia. Avaliará igualmente, mas no âmbito do regime senhorial da Época Moderna, em que medida a implantação territorial da casa se traduziu no benefício de rendas e correspondeu a poderes concretos. Sobre os bens localizados nos seus senhorios e almoxarifados, importará perceber se estes foram consumidos unicamente pelos representantes da casa e respetiva parentela ou se foram utilizados no sentido de se criarem redes de dependência mútua e de influência. Quanto às práticas de gestão do seu estado, questionar-se-á se estas observaram o que a legislação previa ou, pelo contrário, se ultrapassaram os limites legais que eram colocados ao seu exercício. Relacionado com este problema, importará responder à seguinte questão: foram as suas prerrogativas jurisdicionais meros mecanismos cuja utilidade se cingia ao desempenho de competências ou constituíram instrumentos úteis para a afirmação da condição social dos duques de Coimbra, Aveiro e Torres Novas?
Neste sentido, o presente trabalho estará organizado em três blocos temáticos que, partindo de um igual número de princípios, estruturarão o seu discurso de forma coerente. O primeiro segmento consistirá numa abordagem antropológica cujos capítulos se reportarão à história familiar da Casa de Aveiro e aos percursos dos respetivos elementos e concederão particular atenção às relações mantidas entre os seus representantes e a Coroa, definindo-se e periodizando-se as diversas etapas da sua muito particular existência. A segunda parte assentará sobretudo numa análise material que incida sobre os seus bens, numa perspetiva não apenas económica, mas que considere o enquadramento jurídico e a apropriação destes recursos, anunciando a importância simbólica e prática que detinham. Por fim, os derradeiros capítulos articularão as problemáticas anteriormente tratadas, nomeadamente a dimensão humana e os recursos materiais pertencentes à Casa de Aveiro, tendo em vista a realização de uma abordagem às relações de poder formais e informais entre esta casa aristocrática e as terras que compunham o seu estado senhorial. No final, espera-se que a investigação desenvolvida e a tese que dela resulta contribuam para um melhor conhecimento acerca da aristocracia portuguesa e do regime senhorial em Portugal durante a Época Moderna.
ABSTRACT: This doctoral thesis has as object of study the history of the House of Aveiro, a Portuguese aristocratic house whose existence is located between the years of 1500 and 1759. Considering the impossibility of studying all the aspects of its very complex history, we developed the research around specific problems. Firstly, the aim of the present work is to understand the reason why the House of Aveiro’s resources were so important for the social affirmation of its representatives and their dependents in the aristocratic context. It will also evaluate to what extent this noble house’s territorial implantation was translated, in the context of the Early Modern seigneurial system, into the benefit of economic rents and corresponded to concrete powers. Concerning the assets located in its lands, it is important to understand if they were consumed solely by its representatives and their relatives or if they were used with the purpose of creating networks of influence and mutual dependence. As for the management practices of its estate, it will be verified whether they strictly observed what the legislation foresaw or, on the contrary, if they exceed those legal limits. This problem is also related with the following question: were its jurisdictional prerogatives mere instruments whose utility was confined to the performance of some legal competences or were they useful instruments for the affirmation of the dukes of Coimbra, Aveiro and Torres Novas social condition?
Therefore this thesis will be organized in three thematic blocks that will structure its narrative consistently, starting from an equal number of principles. The first segment consists of an anthropologic approach whose chapters reports to the House of Aveiro’s family history and the life paths of its elements and will pay a special attention to the relations between its representatives and the monarchy, pretending to define and to periodize the several stages of its very particular existence. The second part will be a material analysis that focuses on the house assets, not only in an economic perspective, but also considering the legal framework and the process of appropriation of this resources, announcing the symbolic and practical importance they had. Finally, the last chapters will articulate the problems previously discussed, such as the human dimension and the material resources of the House of Aveiro, with the purpose of studying the power relations between this aristocratic house and the lands that formed its estate. In the end, it is expected that the research developed and the thesis that results from it will contribute to a better knowledge about the Portuguese aristocracy and the seigneurial system in Portugal during the Early Modern Age.
Books by Cristóvão Mata
In this book the reader will find a valuable contribute to the history of the municipality of Pe... more In this book the reader will find a valuable contribute to the history of the municipality of Penela from prehistory to 20 th century. Raquel Vilaça collects, with a critical perspective, the information available about the pre and proto-historic archaeological evidences that are known in the minicipality of Penela area. Jorge de Alarcão analyses the study published by Salvador Dias Arnaut on Ladeia e Ladera: subsídios para o estudo do feito de Ourique reinterpreting some conclusions. The main interest of this paper, concerning an area south of Coimbra, between the present-day towns of Condeixa, Penela e Ansião in the period of Christian Reconquest, rests on the maps, more detailed than those which could be presented in 1939. Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho studies, in detail, the charter granted by King Manuel to Penela on 1 June 1514, making a comparison with that accorded by D. Afonso Henriques in 1137, as well as to the property cadastre prepared by Prince Pedro in 1420. Cristóvão Mata reconstruct the municipal administrative structure in Penela between the decades of 1640 and 1750, period in which this town was under the jurisdictional power of the Dukes of Aveiro manor. Ana Isabel Ribeiro explains the upward mobility path and building of a nobility identity by the Garrido family that for centuries took a major economic relevance and power in Penela region. In order to understand this process the author analyzes career and matrimonial choices and reconstruct the alliances made by the family between the 17th and the 19th centuries Guilhermina Mota studies social and economic life of the town of Penela in the middle of the 19th century. The research covers agricultural, industrial and tertiary activities, and approaches a social characterization of the population, the human settlement, family structures and life cycles. In a book that is dedicated to Salvador Dias Arnaut, Leontina Ventura presents some aspects of his academic and historiographical career, highlighting, in a particular way, their recherche concerning Local and Regional History.
KeyWords
Portugal; Penela; 1st millenium BC; Midle Age; Early
Modern Age; Modern Age; Penela archaeology; Economic and Social,
Institutional and Political History; Local and Regional History; Social
Historyspearheads; archaic gold artefacts; Ladeia (Portugal); Christian
Reconquest in present-day Portugal; Ladeia; Manueline charter; Casa de
Aveiro; manor jurisdictions; local officialdom; Garrido, nobility identity
social and economic life; marriage; mortality; family; Salvador Dias Arnaut.
Book Chapters by Cristóvão Mata
Lopes, Bruno e Jesus, Roger Lee (Org.) - Finanças, economias e instituições no Portugal moderno: séculos XVI-XVIII. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019
O objetivo deste capítulo consiste em abordar o património da Casa de Aveiro durante os séculos X... more O objetivo deste capítulo consiste em abordar o património da Casa de Aveiro durante os séculos XVI e XVII. Será analisado o contexto em que foram adquiridos os diversos núcleos de bens desta casa senhorial, averiguando os motivos da sua fundação e reconstituindo o processo de integração das suas rendas no decurso de um século. A observação da permanente reconfiguração deste património permitirá identificar as diversas formas de aquisição de património, reconhecer a natureza das fontes de receita auferidas pelos duques de Coimbra e Aveiro e avaliar a evolução dos valores de alguns destes rendimentos, comparando a sua dimensão face a algumas estimativas do rendimento global da Casa de Aveiro. Deste modo, será possível avaliar a persistência de um modelo económico comum às casas senhoriais da aristocracia portuguesa da Época Moderna e a relação de dependência financeira da Casa de Aveiro para com a Coroa.
The aim of this chapter is to approach the estates of the House of Aveiro during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We will analyse the context in which the various estates of this noble house were acquired, with the purpose of inquiring the mea-ning of its foundation, and we will reconstitute the integration process of its rents for about a century. The observation of this estates permanent reconfiguration will allow us to identify the various forms of acquiring assets, to recognize the nature of the sources of income earned by the Dukes of Coimbra and Aveiro, and to evaluate the progression of the values of some of these rents, comparing their size with some estimates of the House of Aveiro overall income. Therefore, it will be evaluated the persistence of an economic model that was common to the Portuguese noble houses of the Early Modern Age and the financial dependence of the House of Aveiro to the Crown.
Morujão, Maria do Rosário Barbosa e Salamanca López, Manuel Joaquín (Dir.) - A Investigação sobre Heráldica e Sigilografia na Península Ibérica: Entre a Tradição e a Inovação. Coimbra: Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, 2018
O objetivo deste capítulo consiste em interpretar as armas da Casa de Aveiro, fundada no dia 27 d... more O objetivo deste capítulo consiste em interpretar as armas da Casa de Aveiro, fundada no dia 27 de maio de 1500, e articular o seu significado com identidade narrativa formulada pelos duques de Aveiro. Estes aristocratas, representantes de uma das principais casas aristocráticas portugueses da Época Moderna, promoveram um discurso que a considerava o mesmo estado do infante D. Pedro, primeiro duque de Coimbra; em simultâneo, apostaram na evocação da memória do rei D. João II, mediante o qual entroncavam na Coroa. Com ambos os argumentos, recuavam a data da fundação até um período anterior ao ano de 1500, o que lhes seria útil no âmbito de disputas de predências, constituindo as armas da sua casa a representação deste último discurso.
Neto, Margarida Sobral (Coord.) - Penela - Um percurso pelo tempo. Coimbra: Palimage, 2015
Journal Papers by Cristóvão Mata
The Court Historian. Volume 26, Issue 2, 2021
This article examines the marriage of Jorge de Lencastre and Ana Doria Colona, the first duke and... more This article examines the marriage of Jorge de Lencastre and Ana Doria Colona, the first duke and duchess of Torres Novas, by focusing on its context, negotiations and celebration. It recalls the family strategy of the duke and duchess of Aveiro to contextualize the matrimony that their firstborn son celebrated in the early seventeenth century. It also examines the negotiations leading up to this union to enquire whether the Crown intervened in this border-crossing marriage and to identify the benefits it produced for the House of Aveiro. The article pays attention to the ceremonial dimension of the event through a close analysis of a manuscript description of the festivities. In approaching the marriage from those perspectives, the intention is to evaluate the several layers of meaning for this marriage celebrated at a time when Portugal was incorporated into the Hispanic monarchy. Aside from its dynastic and material significance, the article discusses the political and identity discourses performed in the wedding celebrations and reproduced in the written report. Despite being short-lived, the marriage (and its related festivities) did achieve multiple goals, from serving the interests of the Habsburgs and earning valuable benefits in return for the family, to evoking the ‘grandness and royalness’ of the House of Aveiro.
Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra, Volume 33, Número 1, 2020
Este artigo aborda o grupo de proprietários dos ofícios de tabelião de notas de Coimbra entre o i... more Este artigo aborda o grupo de proprietários dos ofícios de tabelião de notas de Coimbra entre o início do século XVI e os meados do século XVIII. Para este efeito, suportamo-nos essencialmente nas cartas de nomeação, apresentação ou confirmação efetuadas pela Casa de Aveiro e pela Coroa portuguesa e registadas na chancelaria régia. A informação recolhida permitirá analisar qual o enquadramento legal e como se processou o exercício desta prerrogativa senhorial, observar a transmissão dos ofícios e identificar os seus proprietários, visando reconstituir os cinco cartórios da cidade.
História. Revista da FLUP. IV Série, Volume 9, Número 2, 2019
Resumo: O presente artigo pretende analisar o perfil social das vereações de Penela, avaliar as a... more Resumo: O presente artigo pretende analisar o perfil social das vereações de Penela, avaliar as alterações ocorridas entre 1640 e 1834 e observar a articulação destas com os sistemas eleitorais então vigentes. Também tem o objetivo de equacionar em que medida esta câmara pôde representar politicamente a Casa de Aveiro, donatária da vila até 1759. Porque o presente volume evoca o bicentenário da Revolução Liberal, será concedida particular atenção aos oficiais da transição do Antigo Regime para o Liberalismo, abordando as suas diferenças face à época anterior e o impacto da Revolução de 1820.
Palavras-Chave: Vereações; Prosopografia; Penela; Antigo Regime.
Abstract: This article aims to analyze the social profile of Penela’s municipal officers, to evaluate the changes that occurred between 1640 and 1834 and to observe its articulation with the ruling electoral systems. It also aims to consider how this municipality was able to politically represent the Dukes of Aveiro, landlords of Penela until 1759. Since this volume evokes the Liberal Revolution, it will be paid particular attention to the officers activity in the transition period from the Old Regime to Liberalism, addressing their differences from the previous era and the impact of the Revolution of 1820.
Keywords: Municipality; Prosopography; Penela; Old Regime.
Resumé: Cet article vise à analyser le profil social des officiers municipaux de Penela, à évaluer les changements survenus entre 1640 et 1834 et à observer leur articulation avec les systèmes électoraux alors en vigueur. Il s’agit également de determiner dans quelle mesure cette municipalité a pu répresenter politiquement les Ducs d’Aveiro, seigneurs de Penela jusqu’en 1759. Parce que ce volume evoque le bicentenaire de la Révolution Liberále, une attention particulière sera accordée aux officiers du période de transition de l‘Ancien Régime au Libéralisme, et à l’impact de la Révolution de 1820.
Mots-Clés: Municipalité; Prosopographie; Penela; Ancien Régime.
Resumen: Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el perfil social de los oficiales municipales de Penela, evaluar los cambios que ocurrieron entre 1640 y 1834 y observar su articulación con los sistemas electorales entonces en vigor. Tambiém tiene como objetivo considerar hasta qué punto este ayuntamiento podría representar políticamente los Duques de Aveiro, señores de Penela hasta 1759. Este volumen evoca el bicentenario de la Revolucíón Liberal y por eso se prestará especial atención a los oficiales del período transición del Antiguo Regimén al Liberalismo, abordando sus diferencias con respecto a la era anterior y el impacto de la Revolución de 1820.
Palabras Clave: Regidores; Prosopografía; Penela; Antiguo Regimén.
Revista Portuguesa de História, 2016
O objetivo deste artigo consiste em verificar os índices de natalidade, de geração de filhos ileg... more O objetivo deste artigo consiste em verificar os índices de natalidade, de geração de filhos ilegítimos e de mortalidade infantil dos filhos dos duques de Coimbra, de Aveiro e de Torres Novas durante os séculos XVI e XVII, e em analisar os percursos de cada indivíduo que atingiu a idade adulta, comparando os valores dos que enveredaram pelo celibato e dos que contraíram matrimónio. Relativamente aos celibatários, procurar-se-á interpretar as escolhas das casas religiosas em que cada um deles se recolheu. No que concerne à amostra dos herdeiros em cujo matrimónio se investiu serão discutidas as estratégias matrimoniais dos filhos e das filhas de seis varões da Casa de Aveiro, analisando a origem dos respetivos nubentes e os contratos matrimoniais dos primogénitos.
The aim of this article is to study the Dukes of Coimbra, Aveiro and Torres Novas children birth, generation of illegitimate children and infant mortality rates during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to analyze the destiny of every individual who has reached adulthood, comparing the values from the ones who have gone for celibacy and those who have married. Regarding the non-married it will be made an overview from religious houses where they have joined while from those who have married it will be discussed their matrimonial strategies, analyzing the origin of their husbands and wives and the marriage contracts of the firstborns.
Revista Portuguesa de História, 2013
Pretendemos com o presente artigo fazer uma incursão sobre o regime senhorial em Portugal durante... more Pretendemos com o presente artigo fazer uma incursão sobre o regime senhorial em Portugal durante a Época Moderna, tomando objecto de estudo a Casa de Aveiro. O nosso objectivo é o de apresentar algumas pistas relativas à efectiva dimensão dos poderes jurisdicionais dos duques sobre as suas terras, mas sobretudo abordar o seu património material em função da natureza e das características dos principais núcleos de bens, numa perspectiva que ofereça uma imagem de conjunto sobre esta Casa aristocrática.
With this article we pretend to make an incursion on the manorial regime in Portugal during the Early Modern period, taking as subject the House of Aveiro. Our aim is to present some clues regarding the actual dimension of the jurisdictional powers of the Dukes on their lands, but mostly address their material assets depending on the nature and characteristics of the main centers of goods, by a perspective that offers a global picture of this aristocratic house.
Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, 2012
Analisamos, no presente artigo, as doações recebidas pela Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra e... more Analisamos, no presente artigo, as doações recebidas pela Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra entre 1668 e 1910, tendo por objectivo apresentar os perfis sociais dos benfeitores e os grupos de beneficiados mais comuns e estabelecer uma relação entre as várias tipologias de benfeitores e as obras encomendadas, de modo a avaliar as diferenças decorrentes da transição do Antigo Regime para a Monarquia Constitucional.
In this paper, we’ll analise the donations received by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra between 1668 and 1910, having as objective the exposition of the social profiles of the benefactors and the most prefered assisted groups, and establish a relation between the firsts and the ones whom they assists, in way to evaluate the diferences caused by the transition from the Old Regime to the Constitutional Monarchy.
Book Reviews by Cristóvão Mata
Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, 2020
Libros de la corte, Otoño-Invierno, 2020
Revista Portuguesa de História, 2019
Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, 2018
Conference Proceedings by Cristóvão Mata
Proceedings of First International Conference on Jewish Heritage – Science, Culture and Knowledge, 2012
Paleographic Transcriptions by Cristóvão Mata
Colecção de Pintura Portuguesa da Fundação Dionísio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro - Catálogo, 2016
Conference Presentations by Cristóvão Mata
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PhD Thesis by Cristóvão Mata
Neste sentido, o presente trabalho estará organizado em três blocos temáticos que, partindo de um igual número de princípios, estruturarão o seu discurso de forma coerente. O primeiro segmento consistirá numa abordagem antropológica cujos capítulos se reportarão à história familiar da Casa de Aveiro e aos percursos dos respetivos elementos e concederão particular atenção às relações mantidas entre os seus representantes e a Coroa, definindo-se e periodizando-se as diversas etapas da sua muito particular existência. A segunda parte assentará sobretudo numa análise material que incida sobre os seus bens, numa perspetiva não apenas económica, mas que considere o enquadramento jurídico e a apropriação destes recursos, anunciando a importância simbólica e prática que detinham. Por fim, os derradeiros capítulos articularão as problemáticas anteriormente tratadas, nomeadamente a dimensão humana e os recursos materiais pertencentes à Casa de Aveiro, tendo em vista a realização de uma abordagem às relações de poder formais e informais entre esta casa aristocrática e as terras que compunham o seu estado senhorial. No final, espera-se que a investigação desenvolvida e a tese que dela resulta contribuam para um melhor conhecimento acerca da aristocracia portuguesa e do regime senhorial em Portugal durante a Época Moderna.
ABSTRACT: This doctoral thesis has as object of study the history of the House of Aveiro, a Portuguese aristocratic house whose existence is located between the years of 1500 and 1759. Considering the impossibility of studying all the aspects of its very complex history, we developed the research around specific problems. Firstly, the aim of the present work is to understand the reason why the House of Aveiro’s resources were so important for the social affirmation of its representatives and their dependents in the aristocratic context. It will also evaluate to what extent this noble house’s territorial implantation was translated, in the context of the Early Modern seigneurial system, into the benefit of economic rents and corresponded to concrete powers. Concerning the assets located in its lands, it is important to understand if they were consumed solely by its representatives and their relatives or if they were used with the purpose of creating networks of influence and mutual dependence. As for the management practices of its estate, it will be verified whether they strictly observed what the legislation foresaw or, on the contrary, if they exceed those legal limits. This problem is also related with the following question: were its jurisdictional prerogatives mere instruments whose utility was confined to the performance of some legal competences or were they useful instruments for the affirmation of the dukes of Coimbra, Aveiro and Torres Novas social condition?
Therefore this thesis will be organized in three thematic blocks that will structure its narrative consistently, starting from an equal number of principles. The first segment consists of an anthropologic approach whose chapters reports to the House of Aveiro’s family history and the life paths of its elements and will pay a special attention to the relations between its representatives and the monarchy, pretending to define and to periodize the several stages of its very particular existence. The second part will be a material analysis that focuses on the house assets, not only in an economic perspective, but also considering the legal framework and the process of appropriation of this resources, announcing the symbolic and practical importance they had. Finally, the last chapters will articulate the problems previously discussed, such as the human dimension and the material resources of the House of Aveiro, with the purpose of studying the power relations between this aristocratic house and the lands that formed its estate. In the end, it is expected that the research developed and the thesis that results from it will contribute to a better knowledge about the Portuguese aristocracy and the seigneurial system in Portugal during the Early Modern Age.
Books by Cristóvão Mata
KeyWords
Portugal; Penela; 1st millenium BC; Midle Age; Early
Modern Age; Modern Age; Penela archaeology; Economic and Social,
Institutional and Political History; Local and Regional History; Social
Historyspearheads; archaic gold artefacts; Ladeia (Portugal); Christian
Reconquest in present-day Portugal; Ladeia; Manueline charter; Casa de
Aveiro; manor jurisdictions; local officialdom; Garrido, nobility identity
social and economic life; marriage; mortality; family; Salvador Dias Arnaut.
Book Chapters by Cristóvão Mata
The aim of this chapter is to approach the estates of the House of Aveiro during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We will analyse the context in which the various estates of this noble house were acquired, with the purpose of inquiring the mea-ning of its foundation, and we will reconstitute the integration process of its rents for about a century. The observation of this estates permanent reconfiguration will allow us to identify the various forms of acquiring assets, to recognize the nature of the sources of income earned by the Dukes of Coimbra and Aveiro, and to evaluate the progression of the values of some of these rents, comparing their size with some estimates of the House of Aveiro overall income. Therefore, it will be evaluated the persistence of an economic model that was common to the Portuguese noble houses of the Early Modern Age and the financial dependence of the House of Aveiro to the Crown.
Journal Papers by Cristóvão Mata
Palavras-Chave: Vereações; Prosopografia; Penela; Antigo Regime.
Abstract: This article aims to analyze the social profile of Penela’s municipal officers, to evaluate the changes that occurred between 1640 and 1834 and to observe its articulation with the ruling electoral systems. It also aims to consider how this municipality was able to politically represent the Dukes of Aveiro, landlords of Penela until 1759. Since this volume evokes the Liberal Revolution, it will be paid particular attention to the officers activity in the transition period from the Old Regime to Liberalism, addressing their differences from the previous era and the impact of the Revolution of 1820.
Keywords: Municipality; Prosopography; Penela; Old Regime.
Resumé: Cet article vise à analyser le profil social des officiers municipaux de Penela, à évaluer les changements survenus entre 1640 et 1834 et à observer leur articulation avec les systèmes électoraux alors en vigueur. Il s’agit également de determiner dans quelle mesure cette municipalité a pu répresenter politiquement les Ducs d’Aveiro, seigneurs de Penela jusqu’en 1759. Parce que ce volume evoque le bicentenaire de la Révolution Liberále, une attention particulière sera accordée aux officiers du période de transition de l‘Ancien Régime au Libéralisme, et à l’impact de la Révolution de 1820.
Mots-Clés: Municipalité; Prosopographie; Penela; Ancien Régime.
Resumen: Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el perfil social de los oficiales municipales de Penela, evaluar los cambios que ocurrieron entre 1640 y 1834 y observar su articulación con los sistemas electorales entonces en vigor. Tambiém tiene como objetivo considerar hasta qué punto este ayuntamiento podría representar políticamente los Duques de Aveiro, señores de Penela hasta 1759. Este volumen evoca el bicentenario de la Revolucíón Liberal y por eso se prestará especial atención a los oficiales del período transición del Antiguo Regimén al Liberalismo, abordando sus diferencias con respecto a la era anterior y el impacto de la Revolución de 1820.
Palabras Clave: Regidores; Prosopografía; Penela; Antiguo Regimén.
The aim of this article is to study the Dukes of Coimbra, Aveiro and Torres Novas children birth, generation of illegitimate children and infant mortality rates during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to analyze the destiny of every individual who has reached adulthood, comparing the values from the ones who have gone for celibacy and those who have married. Regarding the non-married it will be made an overview from religious houses where they have joined while from those who have married it will be discussed their matrimonial strategies, analyzing the origin of their husbands and wives and the marriage contracts of the firstborns.
With this article we pretend to make an incursion on the manorial regime in Portugal during the Early Modern period, taking as subject the House of Aveiro. Our aim is to present some clues regarding the actual dimension of the jurisdictional powers of the Dukes on their lands, but mostly address their material assets depending on the nature and characteristics of the main centers of goods, by a perspective that offers a global picture of this aristocratic house.
In this paper, we’ll analise the donations received by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra between 1668 and 1910, having as objective the exposition of the social profiles of the benefactors and the most prefered assisted groups, and establish a relation between the firsts and the ones whom they assists, in way to evaluate the diferences caused by the transition from the Old Regime to the Constitutional Monarchy.
Book Reviews by Cristóvão Mata
Conference Proceedings by Cristóvão Mata
Paleographic Transcriptions by Cristóvão Mata
Conference Presentations by Cristóvão Mata
Neste sentido, o presente trabalho estará organizado em três blocos temáticos que, partindo de um igual número de princípios, estruturarão o seu discurso de forma coerente. O primeiro segmento consistirá numa abordagem antropológica cujos capítulos se reportarão à história familiar da Casa de Aveiro e aos percursos dos respetivos elementos e concederão particular atenção às relações mantidas entre os seus representantes e a Coroa, definindo-se e periodizando-se as diversas etapas da sua muito particular existência. A segunda parte assentará sobretudo numa análise material que incida sobre os seus bens, numa perspetiva não apenas económica, mas que considere o enquadramento jurídico e a apropriação destes recursos, anunciando a importância simbólica e prática que detinham. Por fim, os derradeiros capítulos articularão as problemáticas anteriormente tratadas, nomeadamente a dimensão humana e os recursos materiais pertencentes à Casa de Aveiro, tendo em vista a realização de uma abordagem às relações de poder formais e informais entre esta casa aristocrática e as terras que compunham o seu estado senhorial. No final, espera-se que a investigação desenvolvida e a tese que dela resulta contribuam para um melhor conhecimento acerca da aristocracia portuguesa e do regime senhorial em Portugal durante a Época Moderna.
ABSTRACT: This doctoral thesis has as object of study the history of the House of Aveiro, a Portuguese aristocratic house whose existence is located between the years of 1500 and 1759. Considering the impossibility of studying all the aspects of its very complex history, we developed the research around specific problems. Firstly, the aim of the present work is to understand the reason why the House of Aveiro’s resources were so important for the social affirmation of its representatives and their dependents in the aristocratic context. It will also evaluate to what extent this noble house’s territorial implantation was translated, in the context of the Early Modern seigneurial system, into the benefit of economic rents and corresponded to concrete powers. Concerning the assets located in its lands, it is important to understand if they were consumed solely by its representatives and their relatives or if they were used with the purpose of creating networks of influence and mutual dependence. As for the management practices of its estate, it will be verified whether they strictly observed what the legislation foresaw or, on the contrary, if they exceed those legal limits. This problem is also related with the following question: were its jurisdictional prerogatives mere instruments whose utility was confined to the performance of some legal competences or were they useful instruments for the affirmation of the dukes of Coimbra, Aveiro and Torres Novas social condition?
Therefore this thesis will be organized in three thematic blocks that will structure its narrative consistently, starting from an equal number of principles. The first segment consists of an anthropologic approach whose chapters reports to the House of Aveiro’s family history and the life paths of its elements and will pay a special attention to the relations between its representatives and the monarchy, pretending to define and to periodize the several stages of its very particular existence. The second part will be a material analysis that focuses on the house assets, not only in an economic perspective, but also considering the legal framework and the process of appropriation of this resources, announcing the symbolic and practical importance they had. Finally, the last chapters will articulate the problems previously discussed, such as the human dimension and the material resources of the House of Aveiro, with the purpose of studying the power relations between this aristocratic house and the lands that formed its estate. In the end, it is expected that the research developed and the thesis that results from it will contribute to a better knowledge about the Portuguese aristocracy and the seigneurial system in Portugal during the Early Modern Age.
KeyWords
Portugal; Penela; 1st millenium BC; Midle Age; Early
Modern Age; Modern Age; Penela archaeology; Economic and Social,
Institutional and Political History; Local and Regional History; Social
Historyspearheads; archaic gold artefacts; Ladeia (Portugal); Christian
Reconquest in present-day Portugal; Ladeia; Manueline charter; Casa de
Aveiro; manor jurisdictions; local officialdom; Garrido, nobility identity
social and economic life; marriage; mortality; family; Salvador Dias Arnaut.
The aim of this chapter is to approach the estates of the House of Aveiro during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We will analyse the context in which the various estates of this noble house were acquired, with the purpose of inquiring the mea-ning of its foundation, and we will reconstitute the integration process of its rents for about a century. The observation of this estates permanent reconfiguration will allow us to identify the various forms of acquiring assets, to recognize the nature of the sources of income earned by the Dukes of Coimbra and Aveiro, and to evaluate the progression of the values of some of these rents, comparing their size with some estimates of the House of Aveiro overall income. Therefore, it will be evaluated the persistence of an economic model that was common to the Portuguese noble houses of the Early Modern Age and the financial dependence of the House of Aveiro to the Crown.
Palavras-Chave: Vereações; Prosopografia; Penela; Antigo Regime.
Abstract: This article aims to analyze the social profile of Penela’s municipal officers, to evaluate the changes that occurred between 1640 and 1834 and to observe its articulation with the ruling electoral systems. It also aims to consider how this municipality was able to politically represent the Dukes of Aveiro, landlords of Penela until 1759. Since this volume evokes the Liberal Revolution, it will be paid particular attention to the officers activity in the transition period from the Old Regime to Liberalism, addressing their differences from the previous era and the impact of the Revolution of 1820.
Keywords: Municipality; Prosopography; Penela; Old Regime.
Resumé: Cet article vise à analyser le profil social des officiers municipaux de Penela, à évaluer les changements survenus entre 1640 et 1834 et à observer leur articulation avec les systèmes électoraux alors en vigueur. Il s’agit également de determiner dans quelle mesure cette municipalité a pu répresenter politiquement les Ducs d’Aveiro, seigneurs de Penela jusqu’en 1759. Parce que ce volume evoque le bicentenaire de la Révolution Liberále, une attention particulière sera accordée aux officiers du période de transition de l‘Ancien Régime au Libéralisme, et à l’impact de la Révolution de 1820.
Mots-Clés: Municipalité; Prosopographie; Penela; Ancien Régime.
Resumen: Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el perfil social de los oficiales municipales de Penela, evaluar los cambios que ocurrieron entre 1640 y 1834 y observar su articulación con los sistemas electorales entonces en vigor. Tambiém tiene como objetivo considerar hasta qué punto este ayuntamiento podría representar políticamente los Duques de Aveiro, señores de Penela hasta 1759. Este volumen evoca el bicentenario de la Revolucíón Liberal y por eso se prestará especial atención a los oficiales del período transición del Antiguo Regimén al Liberalismo, abordando sus diferencias con respecto a la era anterior y el impacto de la Revolución de 1820.
Palabras Clave: Regidores; Prosopografía; Penela; Antiguo Regimén.
The aim of this article is to study the Dukes of Coimbra, Aveiro and Torres Novas children birth, generation of illegitimate children and infant mortality rates during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to analyze the destiny of every individual who has reached adulthood, comparing the values from the ones who have gone for celibacy and those who have married. Regarding the non-married it will be made an overview from religious houses where they have joined while from those who have married it will be discussed their matrimonial strategies, analyzing the origin of their husbands and wives and the marriage contracts of the firstborns.
With this article we pretend to make an incursion on the manorial regime in Portugal during the Early Modern period, taking as subject the House of Aveiro. Our aim is to present some clues regarding the actual dimension of the jurisdictional powers of the Dukes on their lands, but mostly address their material assets depending on the nature and characteristics of the main centers of goods, by a perspective that offers a global picture of this aristocratic house.
In this paper, we’ll analise the donations received by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra between 1668 and 1910, having as objective the exposition of the social profiles of the benefactors and the most prefered assisted groups, and establish a relation between the firsts and the ones whom they assists, in way to evaluate the diferences caused by the transition from the Old Regime to the Constitutional Monarchy.