1st Edition
Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire, 1498–1822
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 0 Oceans of Words, Images and Spaces. An Introduction to Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire. Laura Fernández-González
The Grammar of the Ritual
Chapter 1 Rituals, Ceremonies, Festivals. Ângela Barreto Xavier.
Chapter 2 Ritual Typologies. André Godinho, Arthur Curvelo
Chapter 3 Staging the Rituals. André Godinho and Kevin Carreira Soares
Chapter 4 Audiences and the Public. Sara Ceia, Kevin Carreira Soares, Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues, Moreno Pacheco
Chapter 5 The Other in the Public Rituals of the Portuguese Empire. Ângela Barreto Xavier, Lisa Voigt
Chapter 6 Circulations and Adaptations. Rodrigo Bentes
Memory of the Rituals and Ritual Memories
Chapter 7 Public Rituals and the Printing Press in the Portuguese World. Joana Fraga.
Chapter 8 Manuscripts and Public Rituals. Federico Palomo
Chapter 9 The Visual and Material Memory of the Ritual. Jeremy Roe and Alexandra Curvelo.
Chapter 10 The Sound of Public Rituals. Cristina Fernandes
Chapter 11 Memory. José Manuel Sobral
Chapter 12 Epilogue: ‘And all the towne entertained mee’: New Perspectives on Rituals, Festivals and Ceremonies in the Early Modern Age. Fernando Bouza
List of images
Glossary
Biography
Dr. António Camões Gouveia, NOVA FCSH – CHAM; UCP – CEHR; Reliquiarum SCML/MSR, has taught Early Modern History and Cultural History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa from 1981 to 2024. His scientific interests focus on Cultural History, Mentalities, Religious History and Anthropology. He combines these with Heritage, Museology, and Mediation.
Dr. Laura Fernández-González, FSA, FRHisSoc, is an art and architectural historian of the Iberian world at the University of Lincoln, UK. Her publications include Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire (2021); Visual & Spatial Hybridity in the Iberian World (2020); Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs (2015/2024).
Dr. Federico Palomo is a historian of the Early Modern Iberian World at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Among his publications should be mentioned «Production et circulation de savoirs dans une monarchie polycentrique» (2022), Monarquías ibéricas em perspectiva comparada (2018), Written Empires: Franciscans, texts and the making of early-modern Iberian Empires (2016).
