Nowadays the military history of the early modern period is a renewed historiographical field of growing interest to both the general public and the national and international scientific community. In addition to the classical division between the study of land and naval warfare there has been a trend in Portugal to deal separately with the military history of Portugal and that of the country’s former overseas empire. Furthermore, the latter has almost always replicated the traditional geographic subdivisions of Portuguese imperial history (Morocco, Brazil, Asia, etc.) only rarely attempting to keep a broader comparative perspective. All these divisions and subdivisions have increased the trend towards specialization, making it difficult to maintain an overall perspective of Portuguese military history in the early modern era.

This workshop aims to offer a broad view on military history research carried out at postgraduate level (MAs and PhDs). By bringing together people working on different periods and geographical areas, we try to offer a comprehensive view of the situation of postgraduate studies on Portuguese military history between the 15th and 18th centuries. It is hoped that discussion of the preliminary results of a diverse group of ongoing research projects will contribute to deepen the mutual knowledge between the various sub-areas within Portuguese military history on the early modern period.

Executive Comittee

André Murteira (CHAM)
Maria Barreto Dávila (CHAM)
Roger Lee de Jesus (CHAM)
Tiago Machado de Castro (CHAM)

Cientific Comittee

Vítor Luís Gaspar Rodrigues (CHAM)

 Organised by

CHAM / NOVA FCSH | UAc
IICT

Cartaz | Poster (.pdf)
Programme (.pdf)
Book of Abstracts (.pdf)