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The Tragedy of Alcazarquivir: The Collapse of Kingship, Empire and Narrative
No full textAfter the death of King Sebastian in the Battle of Alcazarquivir (1578), Portugal lost its independence, and the Avis dynasty ended. Many chronicles recounted the defeat, especially as the unwise Sebastian was said to have survived and imposters soon appeared. This article describes the intersection of two genres, epic poetry and poetic historiography, and how their conjunction in the Alcazarquivir chronicles, which were copied and modified for decades and centuries (in Spanish more than in Portuguese), shaped subsequent narratives. The chronicles also were a way of assessing good kingship, conspicuously absent in the case of Sebastian. Features from classical literature such as advice ignored, speeches on the eve of battle, letters of warning, natural omens, physical symbols of hubris, and bad news that cannot be believed are all prominent in the chronicles, which in many ways were collections of set pieces and stock characters. The accounts made order out of chaos and helped explain how the once glorious Portuguese, not well-loved by their Spanish neighbors, lost their African empire in a tragic reversal of fortune
Review of Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas.
No full textReview of Barbara H. Stein & Stanley J. Stein, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire: Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810
No full textReview of Hilaire Kallendorf, Sins of the Fathers: Moral Economies in Early Modern Spain
No full textPrince Baltasar Carlos´s Chamber in Las Meninas
No full textIn order to be a good ruler, one had to attain three kinds of prudence: Self prudence, the control of body and soul; Domestic prudence, to rule the family; and Political prudence, to rule the republic or monarchy. The third kind of prudence that the children had to learn was political. In this article I will analyze the third prudence in direct relation to Las Meninas and, refer beyond it, to the training that royal children received
A justiça dos governantes, lógicas de serviço e benefício em “O panegírico fúnebre a d. Afonso Furtado”, de Juan Lopes Sierra (1671-1675).
No full textNo presente artigo, pretendemos traçar, a partir de uma trajetória individual, uma interpretação acerca de determinada práticas vinculadas ao poder político no âmbito do governo-geral do Brasil, sobretudo quanto à articulação entre ser cabeça política, e o exercício da justiça com autonomia relativa, que era própria dos oficiais régios, sobretudo dos governadores-gerais. A investigação partirá de um panegírico fúnebre, escrito no século XVII, na Bahia, dedicado ao falecido governador-geral, Afonso Furtado. Dessa maneira, partiremos da análise do documento para entender o modo pelo qual determinados fundamentos políticos e sociais relacionados ao exercício da justiça aparecem ao longo do discurso do panegirista
