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In the name of the honour. The Commissioners for the Holy Office and for the Military Orders in Portugal (1570-1773)
 

 

 

Code . PTDC/HAH/64160/2006

Start . 2007

Duration . 36 months

Principal Investigator . Fernanda Olival (CIDEHUS / UÉ)
 

Institutions

Funding Entity

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia


Main Research Unit

Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades / Universidade de Évora

 

Coordenator Institution

Universidad de Évora

 


Collaboration

Centro de Inovação em Tecnologias da Informação / Universidade de Évora


Partnerships

CHAM — Centro de Humanidades

 

 

Unlike the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, in Portugal, the Holy Office was the entity acknowledged as the practitioner of the highest rigor. Many knights of the military orders were disregarded on different types of requirements and this fact was well known at the time, which penalised the Board of the King's Conscience. Since these two entities did investigations in the birthplaces and addresses of the applicants, through a network of Commissioners created in the last quarter of the 16th century by the Holy Office and from 1619 by the Board of the King's Conscience, the project will focus on this network and the involved notaries. The project will attempt to determine who made and how were enquired and recorded the honour parameters in first-hand, as well as the advantages these people tried to explore from their activity. Given that there were equivalent networks in Castile, the project will establish the parallel between with what happened in different points of that territory and Portugal. It will also compare peninsular orders with the Order of Malta.

 

Goals

 

The project will attempt to determine who made and how were enquired and recorded the honour parameters in first-hand, as well as the advantages these people tried to explore from their activity. Given that there were equivalent networks in Castile, the project will establish the parallel between with what happened in different points of that territory and Portugal. It will also compare peninsular orders with the Order of Malta.

 

Team

 

 

 

Fernanda Olival   .    Coordenator

Ana Isabel López-Salazar (UCLM)
Carlos Caldeira (UÉ)
Elena Postigo Castellanos (UAM)
Enrique Soria Mesa (UCO)
Francisco Fernández Izquierdo  (CSIC)
Inês Versos (EUI)
J. Romero Magalhães (UC)
Jaime Contreras (UHA)
Jean-Pierre Dedieu (Lyon 3)
João de Figueirôa-Rêgo (CHAM)
José António Guillén Berrendero (UCM)
José da Veiga Torres (UC)