Considering the large period of time studied, students are expected to be able to
• understand the political culture, from the formation of its agents and practices, discourse and spaces of representation;
• explaining artistic contexts and fashion changes, cultural and generational movements, productive and propagating circles of knowledge, and the production and reception of new ideas;
• designing hypotheses of explaining various different historical contexts;
• developing critical capacities through the perception of how cultural and intellectual ideas were constructed;
• understanding various cultural contexts which feature the Portuguese society identity across the centuries.

1. Culture and intellectual notions: structures, contexts and historicity
2. The respublica and a culture of the court: images and mutations
3. Renaissance Portugal: movements, agents and institutions
4. Portugal during the Trent Council and the Baroque: reflections on various forms of artistic expression
5. From Enlightenment Portugal to Romantic Portugal: discourses of permanence and discourses of change

Mattoso, José (dir.), História de Portugal, 8 vols, Lisboa, Círculo dos Leitores, 1993.
Medina, João (dir.), História de Portugal dos tempos pré-históricos aos nossos dias, 15 vols, Alfragide, Clube Internacional do Livro, 1994.
Serrão, Joaquim Veríssimo, História de Portugal, 10 vols, Lisboa, Editorial Verbo, 1978.
Tavares, Maria José Ferro (coord.), Sociedade e Cultura Portuguesas 2, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 1990.

Online learning with continuous supervision favoring asynchronous communication (Moodle platform).
Students have to perform the tasks requested by the teacher: essays, critical recensions, reports, protocols, etc. All works will be evaluated and/or classified.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 or 3 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a presence-based final exam (p-folio) in the end of the semester (60%).
In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final presence-based exam (100%).

Students are required to have access to a computer with Internet connection and an e-mail address.