King Sebastian's Adventures in England: Sebastianist news, Iberian depictions, religious disputes, and political connections (1579-1639)

• Grant number: 19/04470-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: July 01, 2019 - October 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Luis Filipe Silverio Lima
• Grantee: Luis Filipe Silverio Lima
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/01450-9 - Reporting the adventures of King Sebastian in England: researching, organizing, and reviewing historical documents on the spreading of news in Early Modern Europe, BP.TT

Abstract

By analyzing the "sebastianist" pamphlets which circulated in early seventeenth-century England, this project aims to study the English reception of news about King Sebastian, the Battle of Ksar El-Kebir, and the Sebastian of Venice. Looking into their adaptations as well as their presence in a broader scene of the representation of the Iberian world, in general, and of Portugal and King Sebastian, in particular, the research will seek to: 1) situate the founding disputes of the "lettered sebastianism" from a transnational and connected perspective; 2) discuss the Anglo-Iberian relations and the English representations of Iberia by analyzing both the construction of a millenarianist and imperial discourse and the tensions caused by the Iberian Union and the Spanish Hapsburg expansion, focusing in the Portuguese case; 3) analyze these documents and representations looking into the English and Anglo-Iberian political-religious conflicts. In addition to conference presentations and articles submission, one of the aimed results and outputs is to systematize and edit the primary source research in order to make it freely available on the internet for further research projects. (AU)