Strategy, architecture and power in the wars of the 16th century
If historiography is usually written by the victors, how is military history told? This is the starting point for the interview with Luís Costa e Sousa, a specialist in the 16th century, a period marked by many Portuguese defeats. This architect and historian talks about battles such as Alcácer Quibir (1578) and the War of Portuguese Annexation (1580-1583), how the principles of architecture were passed on to the battlefield, the differences between the European and Ottoman models of warfare, the modernisation of military campaigns, the emergence of hierarchies in armies, preparation for war and the iconography of armour.
Luís Costa e Sousa is a Senior Researcher at CHAM - Humanities Centre (NOVA University Lisbon and University of the Azores). With a PhD in the History of Discoveries and Expansion, he specialises in the theoretical analysis of Portuguese warfare during the Renaissance, as well as the relationship between military history and architecture and art. He was one of the main researchers on the project De Re Militari: From Military Literature to the Battlefield Imagery in the Portuguese Space (1521-1621), funded by the FCT..
The interview is conducted by Beatriz Freitas.
Coordenation
Isabel Araújo Branco (CHAM)
Organization
CHAM / NOVA FCSH
