Os dinheiros da Inquisição portuguesa: o exemplo dos tribunais de Évora e Lisboa (1701-1755)

A partir dos relatórios de contas, elaborados anualmente por cada Mesa da Inquisição no ato de prestar contas ao Conselho Geral do Santo Ofício, pretende-se esboçar, com este trabalho, uma análise comparativa da estrutura das receitas dos tribunais de Évora e de Lisboa. Será alvo de estudo a composição das receitas inquisitoriais afetas aos tribunais, na primeira metade do século XVIII, dando ênfase a uma questão central: em que medida o confisco de bens aos sentenciados pela Inquisição contribuía para a subsistência financeira do Santo Ofício? A historiografia tem sugerido que a Inquisição contribuía com réditos financeiros para o equilíbrio das contas públicas e ao mesmo tempo autofinanciava-se a partir daqui. Há casos pontuais em que a primeira situação se verificou, sendo que o enfoque central deste trabalho não reside aqui. Não se sabe, contudo, em que medida o confisco era importante para a vida saudável dos cofres inquisitoriais. Importará, assim, analisar a composição global das rendas afetas aos tribunais,com o objetivo de compreender qual o peso do fisco.

How did the AD 1755 tsunami impact on sand barriers across the southern coast of Portugal?

Tsunamis are highly energetic events that may destructively impact the coast. Resolving the degree of coastal resilience to tsunamis is extremely difficult and sometimes impossible. In part, our understanding is constrained by the limited number of contemporaneous examples and by the high dynamism of coastal systems. In fact, longterm changes of coastal systems can mask the evidence of past tsunamis, leaving us a short or incomplete sedimentary archive. Here, we present a multidisciplinary approach involving sedimentological, geomorphological and geophysical analyses and numerical modelling of the AD 1755 tsunami flood on a coastal segment located within the southern coast of Portugal. In particular, the work focuses on deciphering the impact of the tsunami waves over a coastal sand barrier enclosing two lowlands largely inundated by the tsunami flood. Erosional features documented by geophysical data were assigned to the AD 1755 eventwith support of sedimentological and age estimation results. Furthermore, these features allowed the calibration of the simulation settings to reconstruct the local conditions and establish the run-up range of the AD 1755 tsunami when it hit this coast (6– 8 m above mean sea level). Our work highlights the usefulness of erosional imprints preserved in the sediment record to interpret the impact of the extreme events on sand barriers

City & Spectacle: A Vision of Lisbon Before the 1755 Great Earthquake

City & Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon consists of a virtual recrea on of the city of Lis- bon on the eve of the great earthquake of 1 November 1755, giving shape to a laboratory model for research into the city’s history. As its star ng point the project has the virtual recrea on of one the most emblema c of spaces from 18th century Lisbon, the Royal Opera House, which disappeared during the 1755 earthquake. The recrea on of the Opera House was developed in the scope of the commemora- ons of the 250th anniversary of the 1755 catastrophe as an a empt to restore this space of the highest ar s c quality to memory and to return it to the inventory of the Portuguese heritage of architectural history.1 Using Second Life® technology it was possible to put forward a model of both the struc- ture and interiors of the Opera House as well as its anima on combined with a small piece of the opera presented at the inaugura on of the building in April 1755. The public presenta on of this virtual model at the conference 1755: Catástrofe, memória e arte (1755: catastrophe, memory and art), which took place at the Centro de Estudos Compara- stas, Universidade de Lisboa, led to a debate on the study and cri cal analysis of documentary sources and their selec on and applica on on recrea ons using virtual world technology. It also emphasized the need to extend the research on pre-earthquake Lisbon.