Dimensions of the Portuguese Empire

• Grant number: 04/10367-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2005
• End date: May 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Laura de Mello e Souza
• Grantee: Laura de Mello e Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: José Jobson de Andrade Arruda ; Leila Mezan Algranti ; Vera Lucia Amaral Ferlini
• Associated research grant(s): 09/08162-4 - XVth World Economic History Congress, AR.EXT; 08/54275-2 - Gail Triner | Rutgers University - United States, AV.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 10/02857-8 - The Jesuit Adaptation In XVI Century Japan: Between the "Historia" of Fróis and The "Cerimonial" of Valignano., BP.MS; 09/04573-0 - An island haunted by demons and illusions: religious and cientific controversies in english demonology (1650s-1730s), BP.MS; 09/03003-5 - Sacraments and customs: the Third Provincial Council of Lima, BP.MS; + associated scholarships 09/03712-6 - The paulista food culture: a maize civilization? (1650-1750), BP.MS; 09/06462-0 - Art, Technique and Politics: the Juan de Herrera s royal architecture and the Philip II s political project(1572- 1597), BP.MS; 07/59427-2 - Ecclesiastical power and Inquisition in Portuguese America (1707-1808), BP.DR; 05/00564-5 - Lisbon Inquisition: inquisitors and inquisitorial procedure, BP.PD - associated scholarships

Abstract

The project Dimensions of the Portuguese Empire aims to develop several research activities concerning the Portuguese Empire especially in the Atlantic area from its inception, with the circumnavigation of Africa in the 15th century, up to the first quarter of the 19th century when the Luso-Brazilian Empire was established in Rio de Janeiro. Nevertheless, it focuses on the period called the Early Modern Times (16th-18th centuries). Professors from the Department of History at USP, the Institute of Economics and the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Unicamp, as well as researchers from Cebrap participate in the project. Activities will be held at Cátedra Jaime Cortesão - which is located at FFLCH-USP and is granted resources by the Instituto Camões in Lisbon -and also at the Economic History Center at the Institute of Economics (Unicamp). (AU)