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As controvérsias ao tempo de D. João III sobre a política portuguesa no Norte de África

Publication . Cruz, Maria Leonor García da

Controvérsias documentadas sobre estratégias a seguir na Expansão do império português, Marrocos versus India. Estudo de pareceres e de correspondência contextualizando períodos de debate nos anos 30, 40 50 e 60 do século XVI.

2021Book part

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Tensões e sentidos na consciência europeia de 1532 a 1536

Publication . Cruz, Maria Leonor García da

The period of time in which Francisco Vitória published his discourses on the power of the Church and on the condition of the American Indian was one of tensions involving lay people, jurists and theologians. The Chamber of Conscience (Mesa da Consciência) was institutionalised in 1532 with its ethical and political dimension closely linked to the sovereign. At the same time, the changes introduced in this nation that generated an Empire and in a church that needed reform are highlighted in moralistic discourses and in texts of an ecclesial nature based on pre-tridentine guidelines. Sometimes echoes of Luther appeared to be heard in the theatre… Strong disturbances occurred all over Europe, inciting new currents of spirituality, coming from Christian humanism or Lutheranism, reactions of differing intensities, of compliance or repulsion, demanding de facto political and social readjustments. Until the institutionalisation in 1536 of the Inquisition in Portugal, an instrument of ethical and religious nature and also of social discipline, the crime of heresy was politicised in France under Francis I, the wars of religion were increasingly intense in the Germany of Charles V, and the Act of Supremacy of the English monarch irremediably divided Christianity. This communication, vis-à-vis sensitivities and concerns differing in terms of space, sought to compare attempts to address problems that were so often common and that revealed facets of a simultaneously political and confessional consciousness at the level of regional or state authorities.

2019Book part

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