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- São Gonçalo de Lagos em Lisboa, 1416-1421: documentos do antigo arquivo do Convento da GraçaPublication . Pedro, Susana TavaresNa sequência da reavaliação, em 2023, das duas fontes documentais então conhecidas atestando a presença de S. Gonçalo de Lagos em Lisboa e em Torres Vedras, que obrigou à revisão da cronologia da vida do monge agostinho, apresenta-se um conjunto até agora inédito de documentos que comprovam a sua presenta em Lisboa entre 1416 e 1421.
- Joachim of Fiore and António Vieira’s Clavis ProphetarumPublication . Valdez, Ana T.This article investigates the influence of Joachim of Fiore’s thinking and of the subsequent Joachimites on the work of António Vieira, SJ (1608-1697). My purpose is to ascertain whether Vieira provides a distinctive eschatological interpretation of the sacred texts in the unfinished Clavis Prophetarum, which deserves recognition as such in intellectual and religious history, or whether he was so much under the influence of Joachimite thinking that he ought to be considered a Joachimite himself. The hypothesis that I will explore is that Vieira might have profited from and somehow merged ideas deriving both from Augustine and Joachim, concerning the interpretation of the content of the books of Daniel and Revelation and the date of establishment of the divine kingdom on earth. This study sheds light on Vieira’s views and, more generally, on potentially important but thus far under-investigated intellectual connections between Augustine, Joachim, and Vieira.
- Edging on heresy? António Vieira, SJ and his apocalyptic “Fifth Empire”Publication . Valdez, Ana T.While introducing António Vieira, SJ’s theory of the Fifth Empire, our objective in this paper is to discuss whether the Church could have considered his approach heretical. Although his theorization bordered dangerous waters, we do not think it crossed the limits of the Catholic Church’s orthodoxy. For doing this, we will analyze some passages of the História do futuro and some of the Clavis prophetarum, especially those dealing with concepts aimed at establishing a universal religion that could prepare Humanity for the events described in the book of Revelation, anticipating thus, the establishment of the divine kingdom. Vieira, the Jesuit, appears to have been one of the precursors of concepts such as universalism, toleration, and ecumenism, and this in a seventeenth-century dominated by solid institutions such as the Inquisition.
- A influência de Daniel e Apocalipse na “História do Futuro” do Padre António Vieira, SJPublication . Valdez, Ana T.Os livros de Daniel e d’O Apocalipse são, provavelmente, dos textos mais influentes de toda a tradição judaico-cristã. O seu conteúdo escatológico, especialmente o apocalíptico, moldou a criação e o desenvolvimento da sociedade ocidental. Mais, foram estas mesmas expectativas apocalípticas que se podem ver na base dos movimentos de expansão ultramarina europeia do início da idade moderna e que são utilizados para justificar processos de colonização e evangelização à escala mundial. António Vieira, SJ, o missionário da Amazónia, é o maior expoente português da exegese apocalíptica bíblica que esperava que o Reino de Deus fosse estabelecido o mais rapidamente possível e defensor da Casa de Bragança após o fim da União Ibérica em 1640. Mas ele é também um dos mais originais pensadores e exegetas que ao longo dos séculos conjugaram o conteúdo destes livros bíblicos com a política do seu tempo. A História do Futuro é um livro apologético escrito em português em que o jesuíta reflecte sobre a história portuguesa, nomeadamente, a União Ibérica, que traduz enquanto “tribulação divina,” e tenta datar o fim dos tempos. Como tal, o objectivo deste texto é relacionar o conteúdo da História do Futuro com o de Daniel e d’O Apocalipse, de modo a ilustrar a maestria com que o jesuíta conseguiu ler nos acontecimentos da História de Portugal os eventos que antecipariam o fim do tempo descritos na Bíblia.
- Reaching the end time: António Vieira and universal evangelizationPublication . Valdez, Ana T.Albeit what one reads today in the media, apocalyptic literature is ‘par excellence,’ literature of hope, not destruction. Therefore, the modern use of apocalyptic language or imagery to promote violent actions requires scholars and policymakers to pay careful attention. While violence appears to be predominant when using apocalyptic language and expectations, there are examples of its use to promote peace that should be considered. This paper aims to analyze this latter use of apocalyptic literature by examining the words of António Vieira, SJ (1608-1697) regarding universal evangelization in his opus magnum, the ‘Clavis prophetarum’.
- Afetos, saudade, queixumes e quotidiano: cartas familiares de Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1913-1929)Publication . Ventura, Maria Da Graça A. MateusA obra de Manuel Teixeira Gomes é essencialmente constituída por cartas que nos reenviam para o autor, não pelos sinais implícitos, mas pelo carácter assumidamente confessional. As suas cartas constituem, por isso, um rico material para a compreensão do universo literário do autor . A escrita privada com os seus familiares permite-nos não somente desvendar relações íntimas, relações amorosas e conflituosas, mas também penetrar no quotidiano e, assim, conhecer uma outra dimensão sua própria vida. Neste capítulo evidencia-se o percurso de encantamento e deceção na relação de um casal que desafiou as convenções socais burguesas.
- A global environmental history of coastal dunesPublication . Freitas, Joana Gaspar deThis book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting new insights into present-day challenges to show that narratives, along with numbers, graphics, and computer models, have a role to play in climate change science, policymaking, and citizenship awareness. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, this book combines fiction, history, and science, to discuss past, present, and future ways of living in coastal areas. Dunes are hybrid environments, a combination of natural elements and human agency; they tell stories of values, traditional wisdom, institutions, empires, technology, vulnerabilities, coastal management, adaptation, and sustainability. Drawing on the past, Joana Gaspar de Freitas unpacks a diverse and fascinating history of dunes, linking knowledge, methods, and approaches from several case studies across the world, including France, Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, New Zealand, USA, and the UK. The book connects the bio geophysics of global change with the main driver of transformation— human agency—to integrate and address nature-society issues, taking human and nonhuman agents into account. In following the choices, paths, and strategies that created today’s coastal landscapes, the book generates greater awareness and understanding of how to shape coastal futures. This is an engaging, original, and, fundamentally, important book that fills a gap in our knowledge of cities, infrastructure, economies, and cultures built on shorelines. A key read for scholars, researchers, and students in environmental history, environmental science, sustainability, coastal land management, and climate change.
- How pharaohs became media stars: Ancient Egypt and popular culturePublication . Pichel, Abraham I. FernándezThe appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called ‘popular’ or ‘pop’ culture (cinema, genre fiction, TV-series, comics, graffiti, computer and video games, rock and heavy music, radio serials, among others) often makes use of narratives and motifs drawn from the observation and study of ancient Egypt, updated and reinterpreted in various ways, and which is now the subject of study by scholars of Egyptology. The present monograph seeks to provide new evidence of this interdisciplinarity between Egyptology and popular culture. It explores the conscious reinterpretation of the past in the work of contemporary authors, who shape an image of the Egyptian reality that in each case is determined by their own circumstances and contexts.
- "Iphigenia among the taurians", a homeless IphigeniaPublication . Rodrigues, Nuno Simões, 1968-This essay reflects on the condition of Iphigenia as a Greek woman exiled in a barbarian land, compounded by her situation as a single woman without children, city, or homeland. In short, Euripides' Iphigenia seems to embody the condition of any woman under the status of a servant in a foreign land in Classical Antiquity.
- (Inter)national and (trans)regional agents: the coastal sand dunes of MozambiquePublication . Freitas, Joana Gaspar de; Raimundo, Inês; García-Pereda, Ignacio; Sampath, D.M.R.Sand dunes characterise an extensive stretch of the coast of Mozambique. These aeolian landforms spread across provincial and countries’ borders and over time infiltrate the lives and actions of local people, authorities, experts, and tourists. This was the set off for a multi-layered study about dunes as agents of (inter)national and (trans)regional webs, due to their entanglement with the human world. This chapter brings into analysis and discussion the present physical and biological specific features of the Mozambican dunes, the Portuguese’s empire attempts to stabilise the sands through dune afforestation, the making a living of nowadays populations pushed to marginal seaside areas by war and poverty, and the exploitation of coastal zones by tourism and other big economic interests. The result is a transdisciplinary overview of the agents, agencies, and processes of change occurring in the Mozambican coast in the 20th and 21st centuries, and their connection to international trends and global environmental concerns.