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- IntroductionPublication . Gentile, Pierangelo; Mineo, Leonardo; Seixas, Miguel Metelo De; Corrêa Da Silva, Isabel
- Uncrowned kings: rituals and ritual objects in eighteenth–nineteenth century Portuguese royal acclamation ceremoniesPublication . Corrêa Da Silva, Isabel; Seixas, Miguel Metelo DeThis article examines the royal acclamation ceremonies of the Portuguese crown in order to grasp the responsiveness of the institution of the monarchy and regime to the challenges of modernity throughout the delicate watershed period of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Portuguese Catholic and absolutist monarchy of the ancien régime had a strict protocol and a set of insignia of power that acted together at the moment of the acclamation and legitimation of each new king. The purpose of this research is to assess the adaptation and reinvention of these insignia and rituals according to the revolutionary demands of social change and secularization brought about by the turbulent period of the beginning of the nineteenth century: the French military invasions (1807–11); the departure of the royal family, court and administration to Brazil (1807); the liberal constitutional revolution (1820); and the civil war pitting liberals against absolutists (1832–34). The new constitutional monarchy that came out of this revolutionary flow faced many challenges of legitimacy, including the test of its capacity to create a modern royal imaginary updated to the cultural mindset of national and secular societies, and capable of bonding rulers with their people. The authors believe that the study of the acclamation ceremonies in the Portuguese constitutional monarchy can give us an accurate perspective on the quality of the symbolic image of the crown, therefore assessing the political efficiency of rituals as one of the structural aspects for institutional legitimization.
- Images of Royalty in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Tradition and Modernity in Italy, Portugal and SpainPublication . Gentile, Pierangelo; Mineo, Leonardo; Seixas, Miguel Metelo De; Corrêa Da Silva, IsabelThis volume emerges from an international seminar held at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Turin on 2-4 October 2019, which brought together scholars from various academic and cultural institutions including, aside from the host department, the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon, the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, the Complutense University of Madrid, and the Centre for Studies on the Royal Savoy Residences in Reggia di Venaria Reale, Piedmont. It combines the outcomes of this meeting with other contributions of scientific relevance to the subject. The editors’ aim has been to participate in the contemporary historical debate on monarchy, a topic of research that has accelerated markedly in recent years, as attested by the increase in academic colloquiums dedicated to it, such as the conference held in Cambridge in January 2019 under the title Monarchy and Modernity Since 1500, or the annual Kings and Queens Conferences that have been promoted by the Royal Studies Network since 2012.
- Reliques de souveraineté Insignes et rituels royaux au Portugal sous la monarchie constitutionnellePublication . Corrêa Da Silva, Isabel; Seixas, Miguel Metelo De