De Cabo Verde para Lisboa: Cartas e Remessas Científicas da Expedição de João da Silva Feijó (1783-1796). Vol. II – Documentação da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal e do Arquivo Histórico do Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa

Revisão botânica das tabelas de plantas, em Fevereiro de 2015, por Maria Cristina Duarte

Um olhar sobre o ensino da matemática guiado por António Augusto Lopes

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ciências da Educação

Bibliotecas de História: aspectos da posse e uso dos livros em instituições religiosas de Lisboa nos finais do século XVIII

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em História

Res Publica: Citizenship and Political Representation in Portugal, 1820-1926

The term res publica (literally “thing of the people”) was coined by the Romans to translate the Greek word politeia, which, as we know, referred to a political community organised in accordance with certain principles, amongst which the notion of the “good life” (as against exclusively private interests) was paramount. This ideal also came to be known as political virtue. To achieve it, it was necessary to combine the best of each “constitutional” type and avoid their worst aspects (tyranny, oligarchy and ochlocracy). Hence, the term acquired from the Greeks a sense of being a “mixed” and “balanced” system. Anyone that was entitled to citizenship could participate in the governance of the “public thing”. This implied the institutionalization of open debate and confrontation between interested parties as a way of achieving the consensus necessary to ensure that man the political animal, who fought with words and reason, prevailed over his “natural” counterpart. These premises lie at the heart of the project which is now being presented under the title of Res Publica: Citizenship and Political Representation in Portugal, 1820-1926. The fact that it is integrated into the centenary commemorations of the establishment of the Republic in Portugal is significant, as it was the idea of revolution – with its promise of rupture and change – that inspired it. However, it has also sought to explore events that could be considered the precursor of democratization in the history of Portugal, namely the vintista, setembrista and patuleia revolutions. It is true that the republican regime was opposed to the monarchic. However, although the thesis that monarchy would inevitably lead to tyranny had held sway for centuries, it had also been long believed that the monarchic system could be as “politically virtuous” as a republic (in the strict sense of the word) provided that power was not concentrated in the hands of a single individual. Moreover, various historical experiments had shown that republics could also degenerate into Caesarism and different kinds of despotism. Thus, when absolutism began to be overturned in continental Europe in the name of the natural rights of man and the new social pact theories, initiating the difficult process of (written) constitutionalization, the monarchic principle began to be qualified as a “monarchy hedged by republican institutions”, a situation in which not even the king was exempt from isonomy. This context justifies the time frame chosen here, as it captures the various changes and continuities that run through it. Having rejected the imperative mandate and the reinstatement of the model of corporative representation (which did not mean that, in new contexts, this might not be revived, or that the second chamber established by the Constitutional Charter of 1826 might not be given another lease of life), a new power base was convened: national sovereignty, a precept that would be shared by the monarchic constitutions of 1822 and 1838, and by the republican one of 1911. This followed the French example (manifested in the monarchic constitution of 1791 and in the Spanish constitution of 1812), as not even republicans entertained a tradition of republicanism based upon popular sovereignty. This enables us to better understand the rejection of direct democracy and universal suffrage, and also the long incapacitation (concerning voting and standing for office) of the vast body of “passive” citizens, justified by “enlightened”, property- and gender-based criteria. Although the republicans had promised in the propaganda phase to alter this situation, they ultimately failed to do so. Indeed, throughout the whole period under analysis, the realisation of the potential of national sovereignty was mediated above all by the individual citizen through his choice of representatives. However, this representation was indirect and took place at national level, in the hope that action would be motivated not by particular local interests but by the common good, as dictated by reason. This was considered the only way for the law to be virtuous, a requirement that was also manifested in the separation and balance of powers. As sovereignty was postulated as single and indivisible, so would be the nation that gave it soul and the State that embodied it. Although these characteristics were common to foreign paradigms of reference, in Portugal, the constitutionalization process also sought to nationalise the idea of Empire. Indeed, this had been the overriding purpose of the 1822 Constitution, and it persisted, even after the loss of Brazil, until decolonization. Then, the dream of a single nation stretching from the Minho to Timor finally came to an end.

Ruy Coelho (1889-1986): o compositor da geração d’Orpheu

Ficheiros em falta: anexo 4,5,6 só legíveis presencialmente

Inventário da obra O Medo complementado com Luminoso Afogado do escritor Al Berto

O presente relatório tem como objectivo descrever o trabalho desenvolvido na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, concretamente no Arquivo de Cultura Portuguesa Contemporânea (ACPC), no sentido da conclusão do Mestrado de Edição de Texto ministrado pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. O estágio foi acompanhado pela Drª. Fátima Lopes, responsável pelo ACPC, e realizou-se na Sala de Leitura de Reservados. No encontro anterior ao início do estágio, foi proposto pela mesma realizar o Inventário de um autor português contemporâneo e facultada a lista de «Elenco dos Acervos Existentes em setembro de 2014», para seleccionar o autor. Era importante ter em conta que só podia escolher os autores que tinham como menção na coluna de observação a informação «guia preliminar» e não os que tinham «inventário». O contacto com o espólio d’ O Medo do escritor Al Berto foi imprescindível para a realização do trabalho de inventariação. Surgiu a proposta de complementação ao inventário, a qual tinha como objectivo escolher um texto para observar as várias versões a que o mesmo foi sujeito até à sua publicação, tendo sido seleccionado Luminoso Afogado. O relatório apresenta quatro capítulos. Após a introdução do mesmo, inicia o primeiro capítulo, o qual centra-se na história da instituição onde decorreu o estágio, para além da abordagem da importância da arquivística textual. O segundo capítulo introduz o autor e as obras trabalhadas. No terceiro capítulo é exposto todo o trabalho de descrição, identificação e inventariação e a análise das versões de Luminoso Afogado. Por fim, o quarto capítulo destina-se aos resultados do trabalho efectuado. Procede em seguida com uma Conclusão, a Bibliografia e os anexos com os inventários e exemplos ilustrativos do trabalho desenvolvido.