Overall objectives:

1 - 1. Acquire a global understanding of the political-institutional reality, starting from a historical analysis; 2. Reflect on issues of interdisciplinarity, particularly in the context of political-institutional relations; 3. Acquire knowledge about the ways of understanding and representing the institutions of the fifteenth century to the contemporaneity, although placing the emphasis on the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries.

Syllabus:

1 - I. Basic concepts Presentation and planning of the academic semester. Definition of the elements and evaluation criteria. Propedeutic reflection on the seminar and approach of some essential concepts. 1.1. Institution, State and Region. 1.2. Central, regional, island and local authorities. 1.3. Ordinations. 1.4. The Law: Its Species. II. The Institutions of the Periphery in the Ancien Régime (century. XV-XVIII) 2.1. The Landlord. 2.2. The captaincy-donee. 2.2.1. The captain. 2.2.2. The Ombudsman. 2.2.3. The prosecutor and the tenant. 2.2.4. The extinction of captaincies. 2.3. The political-military structure 2.3.1. From the government to the captaincies general. 2. 3.2. The ordinance regiments. 2.3.3. The Watchmen's Regiment. 2.4. The judicial framework and the king's ministers 2.4.1. The Corregidor and the Elevations. 2.4.2. The outside judge. 2.4.3. Other courts. 2.5. Economic and financial institutions. 2.5.1. Customs. 2.5.2. The Provider of the Royal Treasury 2.5.3. The Board of the Royal Treasury. 2.6. The Church 2.6.1. The Diocese. 2.6.2. The See. 2.6.3. The Parishes. 2.6.4. The Convents. 2.6.5. The Confraternities. III. From the End of the Ancien Régime to the Institution of Democracy 3.1. Center and Periphery. Territorial redefinition and new constituencies. 3.1.1. Attempts to reform the various jurisdictions: provinces, districts, counties, parishes, parishes. 3.2. Political and administrative institutions. 3.2.1. From the General Administration to the Civil Government. 3.2.2. The City Hall. 3.2.3. The General Board of the District. 3.2.4. The District Council. 3.2.5. The Parish and Parish Councils. 3.3. Educational institutions. 3.4. From Administrative Autonomy to "April 25". 3.4.1. The Napoleonic Wars and the genesis of the Idea of Autonomy. 3.4.2. Admini
2 - BIBLIOGRAPHY General (just look to the other side. It´s the same...)

Literature/Sources:

a , Geral AAVV, Portugal. O Indivíduo e o Estado, Lisboa, Fragmentos, 1994. ALMEIDA, Fortunato de, História da Igreja em Portugal, 4 vols., Porto, Portucalense Editora, 1967-1971. ------- História de Portugal, Lisboa, Promoclube, s.d. Marcelo CAETANO ,
b , (para as demais referências bibliográficas, vide o ponto 2 de «Conteúdos programáticos» ,

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
Exhibition/demonstration/interaction and debate