Representing the Middle Ages in Modern Portugal (1890–1947) : Historiography, Heritage, and Commemoration / Pedro Martins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martins, Pedro, author.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

National Cultivation of Culture ; 32.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025

National Cultivation of Culture ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Modern.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Historiography, Heritage, and Commemoration

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What role did the Middle Ages play in the construction of Portuguese national identity in the modern age? Which medieval ideas, themes, objects, buildings, events, and figures contributed to this process? How did Portuguese intellectuals, artists, and politicians from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth narrate, rework, and commemorate them? These are some of the questions that this book addresses. By examining historiography, heritage intervention, and historical commemorations, it demonstrates the ways by which certain views about the Portuguese Middle Ages were constructed, propagated, and used to serve different political agendas.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Informations

Title Page

Copyrights Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures

Introduction: What was Portuguese Medievalism?

1 Medievalism: a Forgotten Realm in Portuguese Scholarship

2 The Middle Ages and Decadence: Opposing Concepts in Portuguese Romantic Historical Culture

3 1890-1947: Medievalism as a Nation-Building Element in Portugal

4 Approach and Structure

PART 1: Middle Ages, Medievalism and Nineteenth-century Portuguese Historiography

1 The 'Middle Ages', 'Medieval' and Romantic Medievalism in Nineteenth-century Europe

2 A Master and His Apprentices: the Middle Ages and the Debates on 'National Decadence'

PART 2: Portuguese Medievalism at the Turn of the Century (1890-1910)

3 North-South Tensions and Messianic Figures

4 In Search of a National Style: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century

5 No Need to Remember the Middle Ages? The Centenary Commemorations of Henry the Navigator (1894)

PART 3: Portuguese Medievalism during the First Republic (1910-1926)

6 Modernity and Its Enemies: Republican and Integralist Medievalist Historiography and the Causes

7 Medieval Material Heritage during the First Republic: the Cases of the Romanesque

8 'A Nation of Warriors': Commemorating the Middle Ages during the First Republic

PART 4: Portuguese Medievalism during the Military Dictatorship and the Estado Novo (1926-1947)

9 From the 'New Middle Ages' to New Perspectives: Historiographical Views of the Medieval Period

10 'The Purity of Their Primitive Outline': Restoring Medieval Architectural Heritage

11 Reliving the Middle Ages: Commemorations of the Medieval Past during the Military Dictatorship

Conclusions: Towards a History of Portuguese Medievalism

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Archival Sources.

Arquivo Histórico da Economia - Acervo Infraestruturas, Transportes e Comunicações

Arquivo de Cultura Portuguesa Contemporânea - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

Arquivo e Biblioteca da Madeira

Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa - Arco do Cego

Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo (ANTT)

Arquivos e colecções da ex-DGEMN

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (I FCG) - Biblioteca de Arte e Arquivos

Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda (INCM)/Museu Casa da Moeda

Printed Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-71205-4

9789004712058

OCLC:

1561174046

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004712058 DOI