The marriage of João de Alarcão and Margarida Soares and the creation of a transnational Portuguese-Spanish nobility

The main aim of this chapter is to analyze the social and political effects of dynastic marriages between the Portuguese and Castilian-Aragonese crowns on the configuration of transnational, aristocratic families during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To illustrate these questions we have chosen to follow the Soares de Alarcão family (known in Spain as Suárez de Alarcón) and the paths it took between the royal houses of Portugal and Castile for seven generations. The working hypothesis of the chapter is that the identity of the Iberian nobility during this era was characterized by a shared noble culture rather than by any particular features derived from the family’s land of origin. That assumption allows us to discuss whether the use of a particular language or culture indicates ties or political loyalties based on criteria of nationality, or, at the very least, place of birth. Therefore, this essay discusses the miscegenation of Iberian nobilities derived from dynastic marriages. It articulates the structural characteristics of this group and its political impact with the individual trajectories and historical contexts in which they developed. While these topics can be of interest for the comprehension of Portuguese early modern history, they can also help us to reflect more broadly on processes of identity construction.

A aprendizagem da leitura : Concepções sobre a funcionalidade da linguagem escrita e o sucesso na leitura no final do 1º ano de escolaridade

A Aprendizagem da Leitura é um desafio para as crianças que iniciam o primeiro ano de escolaridade tomando-se, para algumas, difícil de alcançar e influenciando negativamente todo o seu percurso escolar. O objectivo deste estudo é procurar perceber qual a relação entre os conhecimentos/concepções que as crianças do primeiro ano de escolaridade possuem, no início do ensino básico, sobre os objectivos/funções da leitura e o sucesso na sua aprendizagem no final do ano lectivo. A amostra foi constituída por 59 crianças, de nacionalidade portuguesa, que no ano lectivo 2006/2007 frequentaram pela primeira vez o primeiro ano de escolaridade, nas Escolas Básicas do 1o Ciclo do Agrupamento de Escolas de Arraiolos e que ainda não saibam ler no início do ano lectivo. A recolha de dados foi feita em dois momentos: no início e no final do ano lectivo. No primeiro momento, em Setembro e Outubro de 2006, foi feita às crianças uma entrevista individual semi-directiva (Alves Martins, 2000), que permitiu conhecer as suas concepções funcionais da leitura e foi também aplicada a Prova de Linguagem Técnica da Leitura/Escrita (Alves Martins, Mata, Peixoto & Monteiro, 2000), para avaliar os conhecimentos de linguagem técnica das crianças; no segundo momento, em Junho de 2007, foi aplicada uma Prova de Leitura (Alves Martins, 2000), para avaliar o desempenho em leitura no final do ano lectivo. Para o tratamento dos dados, a metodologia que utilizámos combinou a análise qualitativa e a análise quantitativa Relativamente à entrevista recorremos à análise qualitativa - análise de conteúdo, quanto à Prova de Linguagem Técnica da Leitura/Escrita e à Prova de Leitura foi feita uma análise quantitativa, seguindo o tratamento estatístico a metodologia proposta pelos autores das provas. ABSTRACT; The Learning of the Reading is a challenge to children who begin the first school year, becoming, for some of them, difficult to achieve and influencing in a negative way their entire school itinerary. The purpose of this study is to try to understand what the relation is between the knowledge/conceptions children in the first school year possess, at the beginning of the elementary education, about the purposes/functions of reading and the success of their learning at the end of the school year. The sample was constituted by 59 children, of Portuguese nationality, that in the school year of 2006/2007 attended for the first time the first school year, in the Elementary Schools of the 1st Cycle of the Assemblage of Schools of Arraiolos and that could not read in the beginning of the school year. The joining of data was made in two moments: in the beginning and in the end of the school year. ln the first moment, in September and October 2006, an individual semi­directive interview (Alves Martins, 2000) was made to the children, which allowed to know their functional conceptions of reading and was also made the Proof of Technical Language of Reading/Writing (Alves Martins, Mata, Peixoto & Monteiro, 2000), in order to evaluate the children's knowledge of technical language; in the second moment, in June 2007, a Proof of Reading (Alves Martins, 2000) was made, to evaluate the performance in reading at the end of the school year. For data treatment, the method we used combined the qualitative analysis and the quantitative analysis. About the interview, we used the qualitative analysis-content analysis, about the Proof of Technical Language of Reading/Writing and the Proof of Reading was made a quantitative analysis, having the statistic treatment followed the method proposed by the authors of the proofs.

Le Corbusier (1887–1965)

Le Corbusier was a Swiss architect and urbanist who acquired French nationality in 1930, having set up his studio (“the atelier of patient research”) in that country. Just as he assumed an unconditional continuity in relation to the past, he also clearly confronted the circumstances of his time. Many of his works became icons of Modernism, like the Villa Savoye (1928), the Marseilles Housing Unit (1945), the Ronchamp Chapel (1950), the Convent of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette (1953) and the Chandigarh Capitol Complex (1950-55), to mention just a few examples. His architecture reflected the development of a modern industrialized economy, a western avant-garde society and a vibrant political and social context. He made a mark not only with his constructed work, but also with designs that were never built (and which were progressive in character), his painting (which reflected his experimentalist nature) and with his theoretical texts, which today bear witness to his modernist doctrine. Le Corbusier was above all one of the most prolific thinkers of Modernism, and one of the greatest figures of the 20th century.

Uma caracterização dos imigrantes no distrito de Évora

Uma vez que existe uma grande necessidade de se obter um maior conhecimento das comunidades imigrantes residentes no Distrito, este trabalho tem como principal objectivo caracterizar a população de imigrantes comunitários residentes no distrito de Évora. Em particular, procuramos analisar os casamentos realizados não só entre os não nacionais e portugueses, bem como entre os nãos nacionais entre si. Consideramos os 354 imigrantes que constituem os imigrantes comunitários inscritos legalmente nos Serviços Estrangeiros e Fronteiras de Évora entre 2006 a 2009. Por outro lado, analisamos, para o mesmo período, os casamentos dos imigrantes que casaram com os portugueses num total de 165 indivíduos. Começamos por levar a efeito uma investigação básica de tipo descritivo para uma caracterização dos imigrantes relativamente a diferentes variáveis e investigamos algumas associações entre elas via tabelas de contingência. Refira-se que a maioria dos imigrantes é do sexo feminino, sendo a nacionalidade mais representativa a brasileira. Com base no modelo de regressão de Cox identificamos factores de risco e diferentes perfis associados à rotura do casamento. Mostramos que há evidência estatística para considerar que um menor nível de escolaridade, o pertencer a um país da União Europeia e o ter entrado à procura de trabalho são níveis de factores que aumentam o risco de rotura do casamento. Analisam-se, ainda, de uma forma crítica, a abordagem paramétrica, procurando modelar os dados através dos modelos Exponencial, Weibull, Lognormal e Log-logístico. ABSTRACT: There is a need to obtain a greater understanding of immigrant communities in the district; this work has as main objective to characterize the population of immigrant community residing in the district of Évora. ln particular, we analyze not only marriages between Portuguese and non-nationals, as well as among non-nationals among themselves. We consider the 354 immigrants who are legally registered immigrants in the Community Service of Foreigners and Frontiers of Évora, from 2006 to 2009. Moreover, we analyze, for the same period, the marriages of immigrants who intermarried with the Portuguese for a total of 165 individuals. We start by carrying out a basic descriptive research in order to characterize the immigrants in relation to several variables and investigated some associations between them by contingency tables. It should be noted that most immigrants are women, and the more representative the Brazilian nationality. Based on the Cox regression model, were possible to identify risk factors and identify profiles of high and low risk associated with the rupture of the marriage. We show that there is statistical evidence to conclude that a less educated levels, belonging to a country inside the European Union and have gone looking for work are factors that increase the risk of rupture of the marriage. The parametric approach is analyzed also, in a critical way, seeking to model the data using exponential, Weibull, Lognormal and Log-logistic.