Coimbra University Press

“With hands we make peace and make war” - Volume I

2025-03-20T11:25:30+00:00

This work brings together a set of studies in homage to Maria do Céu Fialho, Hellenist, professor and researcher at the University of Coimbra. The structuring axis of these two volumes is Peace and War. Around this binomial are organized reflections by specialists from different scientific fields: Ancient Greece and Rome, but also other areas such as History and Philosophy, Literature and Reception Studies, Religion and Politics. The contributions focus on themes as diverse as creation, love and celebration, or destruction, power and violence. Human ambivalence and complexity, metonymically represented by the hands, traverses the cultural and historical contexts of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, through to the Modern and Contemporary periods.

“With hands we make peace and make war” - Volume II

2025-03-20T11:29:24+00:00

Travel Diary in 1855

2025-03-19T09:52:57+00:00

Diary of Júlio Máximo de Oliveira Pimentel's trip in 1855, as a member of the Portuguese Central Commission for the Universal Exhibition in Paris and of the Study Commission to evaluate scientific development in Europe.

Mitochondrial Follies

2025-03-18T17:07:55+00:00

Communicating through comics can be an effective multi-layered strategy. The narrative of this comic transports the reader to a realistic, if abbreviated, view of mitochondrial biology blended with the changing daily routines of Lara. Lara is a fictionalized patient with an undisclosed metabolic disorder, who takes her health into her own hands, becoming interested in metabolism and mitochondria to better understand the processes by which living organisms convert food into energy at the cellular level. Moreover, her goal is also to communicate this fascinating world to friends and colleagues, in a way that may also be useful for scientists and the general public. The comic combines the discoveries of real individuals who have greatly contributed to the knowledge of mitochondria, namely Peter Mitchell, Hans Adolf Krebs and Lynn Margulis, with fictional characters, such as Lara and George, directly associated to the narrative. The interdisciplinary nature of graphic narration reflects the blending of text and scientific facts alongside visual information (both realistic and caricature-like) and critical-thinking-based dialogues and actions, that was enriched by the collaborative work between the researchers who developed the concept and the illustrator who brought it to life.

Fall of Goa

2025-03-14T09:07:10+00:00

The author summarizes what happened to Goa and in Goa in the last almost fourteen years of its life under the Portuguese flag, that is, from the time Britain granted independence to its Asian colony in August 1947 until the invasion of the Portuguese State of India in December 1961.
In order to do this, as well as drawing on much published material, which is abundantly quoted, unpublished documents are used, such as the telegrams that the Portuguese Embassy in Karachi sent to Lisbon with the information given by foreign journalists who arrived in the Pakistani capital from Goa after Christmas, and which were the first reliable information received. Until then, the government knew nothing concrete, as the Indian Union only authorized telegrams to be sent by a journalist from the Reuter news agency.
Also unpublished, among others, is the report of the visit of a Brazilian diplomat to the Portuguese prisoners in Goa, the final report of General Vassalo e Silva, the considerations of that report, the appeals to the courts of some of the military punished, the Memoirs of the diplomat Bonifácio de Miranda and two pieces of information from another diplomat, Luís Gaspar da Silva, who was stationed in Pakistan and claims to have been contacted by the Moroccan Ambassador in Karachi who, at the request of his Chinese colleague, informed him that China was prepared to put military pressure on the Indian Union in exchange for recognizing the regime. Also according to the same diplomat, the head of the Pakistani secret services had told him, weeks before, the exact date on which the Indian Union would attack Goa.

Current Cardiology

2025-03-13T15:19:54+00:00

“Current Cardiology” is an educational project promoted by the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, in close collaboration with the Portuguese Medical Schools.
This work is a pedagogical repository in digital format and multimedia that intends to support Pre-Graduate training in Cardiology. It also intends to be a training tool for all Cardiology students at Medical Schools in Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as an updating tool for General Practitioners fellows in Cardiology.
Its contents are based on the “Core Curriculum” of the European Society of Cardiology, including its nine chapters in accordance with most of the Curriculum Programs of Cardiology in Portuguese Medical Schools.
The contents of this work were elaborated and developed under the coordination of the Regents of the Portuguese Medical Schools Cardiology Units.

Contributions Towards a Critical History of Reason

2025-03-10T11:33:43+00:00

This book puts forward a set of contributions towards a conceptual history of reason in a critical and plural vein. The book puts together 16 chapters in 7 different sections, comprising the historical periods of Antiquity, Modernity and the Enlightenment, as well as several more recent approaches, such as the hermeneutical tradition, the Marxist-Hegelian approach, and Critical Theory. It also includes reflections on the locus of reason in justice and politics, and an interdisciplinary glimpse at its role in science and economics, ending with a reflection on the possible limits of reason. Thus, by providing context on the several uses and applications of the concept of reason through history, this hermeneutical effort shows the fertility of its possible meanings and explores some of its social, ethical and political implications.

Complete Pombaline Works

2025-03-05T15:24:56+00:00

It is well known the historical importance of Marquês de Pombal and his political and diplomatic actions, which made him one of the most remarkable Portuguese politicians with a high international profile. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, diplomat of the Portuguese court to the English and Austrian courts, and later &amp;amp;quot;Prime Minister&amp;amp;quot; of D. José I, bequeathed to posterity a vast body of work written by him or directly inspired by him. Few projects will have a greater capacity to renew knowledge of a nation&amp;amp;#039;s past than those that set out to collect and edit the writings?and work of its most important protagonists. Besides being of great cultural service, bringing to the public domain a heritage buried in the archives, they make it possible to build historical knowledge on a foundation of unshakeable solidity, enhancing even more thorough interpretations. This is the aim of this edition&amp;amp;#039;s project: to bring the?Corpus Pombalino?to the public, by which we mean the work written, prepared or monitored by Marquês de Pombal, a central figure of the Age of Enlightenment, following the example of similar work carried out in the field of the history of the modern age for figures such as Frederick II of Prussia or Cardinal Richelieu. It was therefore urgent to carry out a project of this nature for the case of Marquês de Pombal, creating conditions to clarify the cloudy interpretation that still hangs over this personality so relevant in our history, since it often arouses extreme reactions that are far removed from the serenity of critical tasks. In this first volume of?tome I?of?Obra completa pombalina, dedicated to the diplomatic activity of Sebastião José Carvalho e Melo, the personal and official?letters to other diplomats written from his arrival in England in October 1738 until the end of the following year are published.?

Global Movement Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty

2025-02-21T12:00:14+00:00

This book brings together texts by several authors, both national and foreign, about the death penalty and the debate about the proposal to consider the prohibition of the death penalty as a peremptory norm of general international law (jus cogens). It includes contributions of Anabela Miranda Rodrigues, António Muñoz Aunión, Francisco Ferreira de Almeida, Ignatio Berdugo Gómez de la Torre, Inês Horta Pinto, João Narciso, Jon Yorke, José Luis de la Cuesta, Luís Arroyo Zapatero, Miguel João Costa, Miguel Manero de Lemos and William Schabas.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book 9

2025-02-20T12:11:00+00:00

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he 'saw', with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources,
oral and written.
We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

King John V Library at Coimbra

2025-02-18T16:14:32+00:00

This publication reveals the unpublished work of the American art historian Robert C. Smith (1912-1975) dedicated to the King John V Library of Coimbra, in terms of its history, architecture and art. It establishes a chronology of the library’s works from its beginnings until the restoration work carried out by the former DGEM between 1943-45, reveals the artists who worked on it and looks for the authorship of the project. It is presented in a bilingual critical edition of the original work dating from 1974, as for the updating of its contents concerns.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics

2025-03-17T15:30:52+00:00

This book is a manual for a first course in the philosophy of mathematics. It can be used at undergraduate or postgraduate level, in philosophy or mathematics. Other academics and researchers, as well as non-university teachers, can also find here a reference and guidance for their work and research. The book only assumes a pre-university level knowledge of mathematics and philosophy.

Students and student life at the University of Coimbra

2025-02-17T14:41:52+00:00

The University of Coimbra (Portugal) clearly captivated successive generations of students, who considered it the institution of future elites and a means to rise to power. Who attended Coimbra as a student? Who were these youths, and what motivated them? This article analyses the student body between 1772 and 1910 from several angles, taking into account the historical context and the students’ socio-economic profiles. It aims to show continuities and discontinuities, sometimes even the breakdown of an academic career. Coimbra students in that period mostly came from a bourgeois background. The University can thus be considered to have been elitist. Based on information regarding the geographical and social origin, the daily routines, and the components of the student experience, the article comes to profiling the average student, the connection to university and urban life, and their social and political strength.

In 1916, Aurora Teixeira de Castro, a student at the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law, in Portugal, on learning that she had failed an exam, questioned some members of the jury and challenged their decision, supported by two fellow students using aggressive language. As a result, a case was filed with the academic police against the students, which would lead a movement in solidarity with the “victims” and in protest against the University. An analysis of these proceedings provides a study of gender representations in higher education at a time when women were being admitted to university courses. The rebellious behaviour that surrounded the case, triggered by an individual who was one of the first generation of women to graduate in law in Portugal and would become the first female notary in Europe, also signalled a breaking point with the traditional female archetype associated with passivity, and reflect changes in gender identities and challenges to the symbols of power under the democratic First Republic.

Man's efforts in the Mondego basin

2025-02-13T15:05:02+00:00

Man's efforts in the Mondego basin. Geographical Essay, Coimbra, 1940.

Training’s Contributions to Reducing Risk

2025-02-11T15:57:15+00:00

Emerging as a vital area in collective safeguarding, emergency relief and civil protection require qualified professionals and high-level decision-makers to manage increasingly complex and challenging emergencies. In this sense, training, particularly higher education and research, are fundamental factors not only for personal development, but also for permanent evolution and continuous organizational learning, with a direct impact on the adaptation and updating of emergency relief, in line with the complexity of the emergence of new risks and threats.

This book presents a strategic vision of the importance of specific higher education in the field of firefighters and civil protection, thus filling a gap in strategic knowledge in this crucial area of ??national security.

The book "Training’s Contributions to Reducing Risk" defends the idea that the challenges of managing complex emergencies that modern societies face presuppose a strategy of technical and professional qualification at a higher level, choosing the National School of Firefighters as a possible preferred pedagogical structure, for such a national purpose.

The Vouga Basin

2025-02-06T09:19:01+00:00

The first doctoral thesis in Geography in Portugal.

Dichotomous keys to the bee genera of Portugal

2025-01-14T17:13:34+00:00

Bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), with around 750 species in Portugal, are a group of pollinating insects that are crucial to the functioning of ecosystems and food security. However, bees face strong threats, with negative trends in the abundance of individuals and species diversity. In this context, there is an urgent need to develop conservation actions that guarantee the protection of biodiversity and the long-term sustainability of ecosystems. These conservation actions must, however, be designed and implemented based on robust action plans and monitoring programs implemented over the long term. At the same time, we have seen a lack of investment in insect taxonomy over several decades, resulting in a limited number of entomologists to monitor action plans. It is therefore crucial to train new generations in the field of entomology, particularly in the identification of bees. This work is an adaptation of Michez et al. (2024) and represents an updated version of the dichotomous keys to the bee genera of Portugal. This work provides a general characterization of the life cycle, ecology and external morphology, summarizes the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera present in Portugal, including the number of species and the main bibliographic references available for subsequent identification to species, and provides two keys for identifying genera, one for females and one for males. The aim of these keys is to make teaching and learning about the taxonomy of bees in Portugal more accessible and to promote entomology.

Plutarch. Parallel Lives. Lycurgus and Numa

2025-01-14T17:17:53+00:00

Translated for the first time into Portuguese from Ancient Greek, Plutarch's Parallel Lives of Lycurgus and Numa is a foundational text in both classical studies and the history of Western political thought. Though shrouded in myth, Lycurgus and Numa would have a significant impact on the ancient legal and political tradition, and their influence endures well into the present day. The former biography, that of the Spartan Lycurgus, had a controversial reception history, having been frequently quoted in the handbooks of Prussian military academies and elite Nazi schools, where he was upheld as a model of discipline and obedience.
Meanwhile, the biography of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, is one of the few sources for the foundation of the city’s religious institutions. Being himself a Sabine and characterised by Plutarch as a pacifist, the figure of Numa helped to produce the perception of Rome as a stable and multi-ethnic force in the ancient world.

Science and Soccer

2025-01-14T12:17:50+00:00

“Science and Soccer – A key combination” present the very latest scientific research in soccer. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book is the most comprehensive collection of current research into football, presenting important new work in key areas such: (1) Performance analysis; (2) Nutrition; (3) Match analysis; (4) small sided games; (5) Biomechanics; (6) Women’s football; (7) Testing; (8) Monitoring; (9) Futsal; (10) Psychology and sociology; (11) Talent identification and development; (12) injuries.

The papers contained within this book were first presented at the World Congress on Science and Soccer, held in June 2022 in Coimbra, Portugal. The meeting was held under the auspices of the International Steering Group on Science and Football, a representative member of the World Commission of Science and Sports.

Fundamental Texts from the Society of Jesus

2025-01-09T15:01:36+00:00

This book was the result of a Jesuit Studies Seminar, Fundamental Texts from the Society of Jesus, held by the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies in two modules: 'In the pen of the founder' and 'Pedagogy and Historiography'. Its timeline ranges from the study of founding texts such as the booklet of the Spiritual Exercises or the Autobiography, to that of an unpublished text documenting the expulsion of the Society of Jesus from Portugal, to the study of sources that shed light on its establishment in Portugal and the pioneering nature of the College of Coimbra, as well as its teaching books that spread to the entire international Jesuit school network. This book offers the opportunity to revisit some of the fundamental texts on which the edifice of the Society of Jesus was built. Jesuits were essential protagonist of Renaissance Humanism, who experienced first-hand this cultural, political, scientific, philosophical, social, spiritual and social movement that shaped Northern and Southern Europe as well as the exchange of cultural influences resulting from the encounter across the five continents.

The Chinese Notebook

2024-06-16T10:44:37+00:00

The book reproduces 5 lectures by the author related with the Conimbricense philosophy that was received in 17^th Century China. It presents the way the Coimbra commentary reads Aristotle, shows Aristotle’s likely intellectual image, discusses the pre-history of the cosmological revolution of the seventeenth-century, and proposes the best angle from which to read the Coimbra Jesuit Course as a whole. A final lecture seeks to put the object of Dialectics in its proper Jesuit perspective and an Appendix reproduces the state of the art concerning The Transmission of Western Natural Philosophy in Ming and Qing Dynasties).

Vida da Faculdade de Letras 2023-2024

2025-01-07T14:41:23+00:00

From the academic year 2012/2013, all the information that was part of the section "Life of the Faculty" of the Biblos Journal will have an autonomous existence in digital format. Because it is considered relevant to preserve this memory and because it is understood that it should not be part of a scientific journal, this separate publication has been created, accessible to the internal and external public, which will be hosted on the website of the Faculty of Humanities and on the platforms of the University Press. This volume gathers information regarding the academic year 2023/2024.

VINCULUM. Imagining and organising kinship. The entailment system (14th—17th centuries)

2025-01-03T09:45:24+00:00

This book deals with kinship as an intrinsic element of the social agency of entails. In a broad chronological scope, from the first manifestations of entailment in the 14th century to 1700, it explains how entail founders sought to imagine and organise kinship groups and relationships, shaping structures, imposing hierarchies and behaviours on their relatives and descendants within a horizon of perpetuity, and ultimately producing a lasting influence on kinship, a fundamental structure in the medieval and early modern Portuguese social fabric

VINCULUM. Privilege, Memory and Perpetuity: Entails and Entailment in Europe, ca. 1300-1800

2025-01-02T15:39:23+00:00

The texts which this book brings together build on a key theme of the VINCULUM project, envisaged from the outset as one to be developed collaboratively between outside researchers and members of the team: the study of the presence of entailment in the European territorial space between the 14th and 17th/18th centuries. The book is composed of eleven chapters dealing with the subject of entailment in different parts of the continent: France, Italy, the Austrian portion of the Habsburg Empire, Hungary and Spain. Collectively, its contents yield a preliminary map of the perpetual entailment of property and its inheritance as it undoubtedly existed throughout late-medieval and early-modern western Europe, and contribute to situate the subject of entailment historiographically and theoretically — affording a chronologically and geographically far-reaching perspective that is at once case-study-based and comparative.

VINCULUM. Power: Entailment, status, and social mobility

2025-01-03T10:28:24+00:00

This book focuses on power, one of the components that characterise entails as corporate bodies. It analyses how entailment practices and social power functioned, combined and rivalled each other and what was the role of entails in maintaining aristocratic status and power and in the processes of social ascension of lower groups who aspired to achieve nobility, especially the urban elites. Based on the study of four Portuguese cities – Santarém, Évora, Porto and Lisbon –, between 1300 and 1700, it presents a sociological characterisation of the entail founders and their social mobility, their connections to other power circles, their motivation to establish an entail, and the elites’ awareness of their power
manifested in the entail foundation documents. This books shows that the entails were associated with various forms of power and were a privileged means of access to the highest groups in the social hierarchy.

VINCULUM. A Memória dos Vínculos. Documentos do projeto Vinculum. Antologia de Fontes

2025-01-02T15:57:07+00:00

Over the course of the Vinculum project, thousands of documents relating to the institution of entails and their administration have been consulted. Many of them are now included in the project’s database, which endeavours to virtually reconstruct the archives of these Ancien Régime institutions as far as possible. These sources have proved essential for a better understanding of entails; however, their usefulness goes far beyond this already vast subject. The aim of this anthology is to showcase these findings by collecting more than 700 excerpts from documents dating from the 14th to the 17th century and indexing them thematically, in order to make historians, students and the curious aware of the richness and potential of these sources for the study of various themes, demonstrating the importance of historical research and its analytical tools for understanding other times, territories and societies and putting these fragments of the past into dialogue with the present.

Bernardino António Gomes (1768-1823)

2025-01-16T09:31:00+00:00

Bernardino António Gomes (1768-1823) was an eminent Portuguese physician and scientist who gained particular recognition in chemistry, with the isolation of cinchonine from the bark of cinchona, an antimalarial plant. This isolation was described in the Ensaio sobre o cinchonino (1812) triggering a strong polemic between Gomes and the editors of the Jornal de Coimbra. Additionally, he played an important role in other fields: public health, founding the Instituição Vacínica, and promoting the use of Jenner’s vaccine; in dermatology, by writing the first Portuguese book entirely dedicated to skin conditions; and in botany, devoting himself into studying numerous Brazilian plants, such as ipecac or cinnamon. His work had ample international repercussion, chiefly in France.

VINCULUM. Entailment identity: construction, transmission, perpetuation

2025-01-02T16:38:43+00:00

This book is about identity, one that no longer exists and can only be understood through an exercise in historicisation and otherness. Entailment identity refers to the way in which identity was built, transmitted and perpetuated through entails, a specific pre-modern legal institution, within corporate family bodies. How did the use of identity symbols, such as family names and arms, respond to the need to immortalise memory? What were the physical, mental, and moral identity requirements that defined the (im)perfect heir? What roles were assigned to archives, as places of memory, power and identity? In what ways was identity prolonged beyond death? How was identity built in community, and how did the entails
benefit the community and, conversely, were they benefited by it?

VINCULUM. Tombo das Capelas da Cidade de Évora e das vilas de Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora e Lavre; Vínculos das provedorias da comarca de Évora e Estremoz, séculos XV-XIX

2025-01-02T14:57:25+00:00

This book contains, in its first part, the transcription of the Tombo das Capelas da Cidade de Évora and the towns of Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora and Lavre, a 16th century document kept in the National Archive of Torre do Tombo. It is preceded by a historical introduction, contextualising the work, and followed by indexes (general and onomastic of institutors). The Tombo is of the utmost
importance for the history of the kingdom of Portugal, and of the Alentejo region in particular, in the 15th-16th centuries.
The second part presents a very significant set of entails’ registers, with records from the 15th to the 19th centuries, made from the last decades of the 16th century onwards and located in the Tombo's aftermath, testifying to the long and territorially broad continuity of the t”tombação” of the “property of souls” in the upper Alentejo region. Preceded by an introduction narrating the process and characterising the documentation, it provides researchers with unprecedented and substantial information, in the form of a list with thousands of entries, containing the main elements of historical and archival research.

The Kingdom of Portugal in 1527 - Volume I

2025-01-22T09:49:34+00:00

This book offers the reader the edition and historical contextualization of 232 contracts for the sale of land taxes made by the Crown with a good number of Portuguese municipalities around 1527. This documentation occupies eight large tombs of a specific series in the chancellery of King João III, a very significant archival investment in the constitution of a very important body of documents, particularly in terms of the costs and means involved, which shows the Crown's recognition of the importance of the political decision, taken at the Cortes de Torres Novas in 1525, to transfer, in the form of contracts of sale, to the kingdom's municipalities, the obligation to collect the revenue from each municipality's taxes. The interest of studying these contracts of 1527 and the years that followed, which until now have been practically ignored by Portuguese historiography or only very superficially and indirectly touched upon, and their publication, goes beyond a merely local dimension, revealing, through the analysis of the data contained in the sales contracts, pertinent aspects of the fiscal and economic life of the country at that time, its population, settlement, society and the ways in which local powers exercised their intersection with the central royal power. It is this global view of the country, which the documentation in question provides, that justifies the relevance of this book.

O Reino de Portugal em 1527 - Volume II

2025-01-27T16:22:10+00:00

O “Tien” feito carne

2025-01-22T09:19:32+00:00

The Jesuit mission in the East, and in China in particular, has been the subject of classic missological history studies, many of them of the highest quality. The aim of this publication is not to take a missological approach, but rather to study the possibilities and compatibilities of Christianity in a Confucian cultural environment. The aim is to look at the documentation from an ethnological, anthropological and philosophical point of view. The materials used range from accounts of exorcism rituals, dreams of journeys to the afterlife, Confucian cultural practices penetrated by Christian elements, conversations between missionaries and peasants, Buddhists, Taoists, mandarins and emperors.
On another level, the aim is to place the Jesuit mission in China (1600-1750) in a perspective of cultural exchange, in which events in the Chinese mission were often determined by developments taking place in Europe, namely the rise of Jansenism from the second half of the 17th century.
This approach, using indicative, quasi-police methodologies, also aims to shed new light on the famous question of “Chinese rites”.

History of the Misericórdia de Coimbra - Volume II

2025-01-14T17:35:17+00:00

The book is organized in two volumes, the first covering the years 1500 to 1834 (the definitive end of the “Absolute Monarchy”) and the second the years 1834 to 2000, thus spanning four political regimes.
The two volumes have the same structure, which aims to study all aspects of the institution: “National legal framework and internal regulations”, “Brothers, leaders and workers”, “Income, expenditure and assets”, “Social action”, “Religious action” and “Artistic heritage”.

History of the Misericórdia de Coimbra - Volume I

2025-01-14T17:31:09+00:00

Philippe Rogier (c.1560-1596). Domine Dominus noster. Motet in 12 parts

2024-12-19T15:47:46+00:00

The study centres on the 12-voice polychoral motet ‘Domine, Dominus noster’ by Philippe Rogier (ca. 1560-1596), Philip II’s last chapel master.
This work was supposedly lost, although it was identified in King John IV’s ‘Index’. This research sets the composition within the maestro’s Latin and polychoral repertoire; it studies the source that contains it in order to understand the value and use that may have been given to the piece in the place where it is preserved, the Archivo Musical de la Catedral de Valladolid and, finally, it offers a critical edition of the work.

Gender, violence and hate online

2024-12-20T14:50:24+00:00

The book Gender, violence and hate online: concepts and representations maps out a set of critical issues and presents a series of qualitative studies contextually situated in the Covid-19 pandemic, uncovering the intricate relationships between online communication practices and the experiences of abuse lived on different types of digital platforms. While identifying the potential of digital technologies in overcoming sexism and structural violence against women, the volume explores evidence of digital hatred and offensive behaviour perpetrated online, involving the intentional imposition of substantial suffering and perpetuating gender inequalities. In addition to advancing knowledge on a problem that is still little studied in Portugal, the book offers important contributions so that academic research can be a comprehensive space for fighting for the realisation of justice.

King John V Library at Coimbra. History and construction, architecture and art

2024-12-19T14:40:12+00:00

Corporate Governance and Other Themes

2024-12-17T11:42:11+00:00

The book covers a relevant set of themes that are closely related to corporate governance. It provides useful information on the Portuguese and Chinese legal systems. In this way, it facilitates the identification of what unites and diverges the rules of both countries. This will allow lawyers and investors to better understand the legal environment in which they will have to operate. Testimonials were also collected on particular aspects of the Brazilian, Cape Verdean, Mozambican, São Toméan and Timorese legal systems.

Biography and Identity in the Roman Empire

2025-01-14T17:01:18+00:00

This volume includes theoretical studies on Biography, its origins and developments in Greece and Rome, as well as its relationship with Ancient History, converging in the biographical treatment of the Roman imperial regime. In addition to references to various biographers, biographies by Josephus, Plutarch, Suetonius, Quintus Curtius, Tacitus and Historia Augusta are particularly analysed, as well as Lives of rulers - Alexander, Augustus, Tiberius, Galba, Otho, Hadrian and Commodus - and influential politicians, such as Germanicus and Agricola.

Language and Intercultural Competence Education in a Global Age

2024-12-12T14:50:28+00:00

This book examines the essential connection between language learning and intercultural competence. The book explores teaching strategies, pedagogical frameworks, and real-world applications to emphasize the importance of language diversity and intercultural dialogue. The first chapter presents a study on enhancing intercultural competence in English for Specific Purposes (ESP), highlighting the role of reflective and practical activities. The subsequent chapters delve into university industry collaboration, interdisciplinary learning in higher education, teacher training programs, and the promotion of plurilingual competence through English education. Additionally, the book reviews intercultural content in Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL) textbooks and business Chinese materials, noting the importance of balanced cultural representation.
The final chapter discusses grammar learning strategies among Croatian speakers learning multiple languages. Overall, the book underscores the significance of integrating intercultural competence into language education to foster global awareness, critical thinking, and effective communication, advocating for inclusive educational approaches that prepare learners for diverse, multicultural environments.

Parallel Lives. Philopoemen and Flamininus

2024-11-28T12:26:41+00:00

The aim of this book is to provide a Portuguese translation of the biographical pair Philopoemen-Flamininus, with a brief introduction and a commentary.

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

2024-11-28T10:39:04+00:00

Diogenes Laertius, an author who lived in the third century A.D., let us know that his aim was to make known the doctrines and the philosophers in all their dimensions.
This work, a first history of Greek philosophy, has been quoted throughout the ages and is still the only source of information available on many of the authors mentioned here. In addition to their theories and the schools to which they belonged, it also contains the maxims attributed to the characters or the anecdotes surrounding them.
From Anaximander to Menedemus, Book 2 of the Lives of the Illustrious Philosophers gives us a better insight into Socrates and the various pre and post Socratic philosophers.

Mysteries of chance, doctrine of the occasion

2025-01-14T17:05:44+00:00

This book is a reunion of essays on the work of Father Antonio Vieira, SJ (1608-1697), focusing on his anti-Machiavellian sermonism, that is, which prevents the separation between the affairs of God and those of men, reinforcing not only the ethical dimension of politics, as the political model of Christian ethics.

Communication Sciences Academic Journeys

2024-11-07T14:52:11+00:00

This book results from compiling some of the papers presented at the 3rd Communication Sciences Days organised by the PhD in Communication Sciences students at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. It brings together texts that analyse journalistic activity, media products, the presence of women in newsrooms and news production, media representations, the use of new technologies in the distribution of news content, and the analysis of projects developed using new technologies amid the post-pandemic popularisation of these tools.

Anthropocene(s)

2024-09-30T10:08:53+00:00

What does it meant to inhabit a planet affected by the climate and environmental crises? This book develops an ontological proposal to study the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch to illustrate the articulations of human activities and planetary phenomena such as global warming. This book stems from a research project at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra with the title “TROPO – Ontologies of the Anthropocene in Portugal”.

The ontological approach analyzes the Anthropocene(s) through different responses to the climate and environmental crises, including activism, hegemonic energy transition policies, lithium extraction, climate manipulation technologies and even subjective and methodological reconfigurations to allow for more intimate entanglements between human and more-than-human agency.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book 7

2024-09-20T09:53:31+00:00

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book 8

2024-09-20T14:13:42+00:00

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he 'saw', with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written.
We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

Rural fire risk management in residential buildings

2024-09-12T15:41:02+00:00

Despite growing investment in rural fire management, fires continue to increase in frequency and intensity, causing serious damage to infrastructure and sometimes loss of life. This work aims to share knowledge about fire risk management in buildings located in areas susceptible to rural fires, considering technical and legislative aspects. Its target audience is both professionals involved in rural fire management and the general public, especially those living in rural areas.

(Re)visiting the Graeco-Latin classics in the classroom

2024-09-10T15:15:39+00:00

This work compiles various contributions that primarily analyse texts by Portuguese authors across different eras, with the aim of revisiting Graeco-Latin classics in the classroom.

The diversity of these sources is meant to inspire teachers in primary and secondary education to promote different educational methods in their lessons. In this way, they may motivate students to engage with the reception of Classical Antiquity in the Lusophone world.

Associativism in Science and its Expression in Chemistry

2024-08-02T10:35:12+00:00

The Italian Renaissance awakened in man a new way of knowing nature.
The Scientific Revolution that operated was marked in the 19th century by two facts that completed it: the compartmentalisation of science into areas of specialty and the committed participation of the university in the construction of knowledge. In this evolution, scientific societies external to the university also played a decisive role. This book provides a perspective on those societies with a particular focus on Chemistry and Portuguese scientific institutions.

In Search of Time and Space

2024-08-02T13:28:13+00:00

This proposal explores how the categories "time" and "space", understood in their physical dimension, have been manipulated to create other realities, other worlds in which authors and artists have projected their ideologies, fears and hopes since Antiquity to the present day.
By bringing into play the famous question "what would have happened if...", this project aims to explore the mechanisms and the parallel worlds created when we imagine other worlds as well as alternative futures and pasts.

Herodotus and the Invention of the Other

2024-07-29T14:06:34+00:00

This title brings together a series of texts, grouped into two sections: Part 1, on the issues raised by Herodotus' narrative, and Part 2, on the author's reception in Antiquity itself.
It thus draws the lines of force in a hermeneutic discussion that has been adding readings over the centuries, to which Herodotus' text – essentially focused on the relationship between East and West, Asia and Europe – has always made an inexhaustible contribution.

Essays on Lay and Ecclesiastical Communities in and Around the Medieval Urban Parish

2024-07-23T10:43:29+00:00

This book gives a definite contribution to a wide-ranging reflection on the medieval parish and the secular clergy, considered within a long-term chronological framework and a wide geographical scope that allows the analysis and confrontation of case studies from the Iberian kingdoms, Northern France, Italian Piedmont, Lombardy, Flanders, Transylvania, and North of the Holy Roman Empire. The chapters published in this book tells of dynamics of social, religious, and cultural exclusion and inclusion within lay communities, of the constitution of family elites and parish confraternities; it shows the composition and the recruitment rationales of the parish clergy and of some ecclesiastical chapters with a duty of Cura animarum; it examines the relations of the churches and parochial clergy with more prominent – secular and regular – ecclesiastical institutions in the context of the establishment and exercise of the right of patronage; finally, it explores the role of the secular clergy in the application of justice, based on the characterization of their cultural and juridical formation.

Presença do Anjo. Do mito ao mistério

2024-07-16T14:12:51+00:00

Guardião ou exterminador, sorridente ou melancólico, o Anjo acompanha a espécie humana desde a Queda. Longe de ser apagado, como tantas outras criaturas fabulosas, perante os prodígios da ciência moderna, permanece, visível ou invisível, o misterioso guia, fiel ou enganador, da alma. Abundantemente representado na pintura e na escultura medievais, solicita, com ou sem asas, os mais contemporâneos cineastas. Desde o Romantismo, poetas e romancistas recorreram ao seu prestígio de sobrenatural Estranho, tentado pela nossa condição mortal.

Between Madness and Deviance

2024-06-04T14:46:52+00:00

This book comprises two parts. The first one includes a brief framework of the European History of Forensic Psychiatry in the 19th century and the criminal context of that time, being subsequently investigated the reception of the medical forensic thinking in Portugal and its protagonists.

In the second part it is presented a set of ten cases from the first quarter of the 20^thcentury, whose criminals were taken to Medico-legal Council, so that, through the respective mental examination, it could be determined whether there was criminal irresponsibility due to psychic anomaly.

Au cas par cas: la règle et l’exception

2024-05-21T15:52:17+00:00

This volume brings together eleven case studies on the social performance of women in Graeco-Roman antiquity. These are case studies based on the objectives and methods of the Project Eurykleia – celles qui avaient un nom. The studies share the notion that the active women we know through the documentation are no less exceptional than the active men. Instead of writing a history of the category of sex, that is, “women”, the history of women and gender must consider women as men are considered, that is, without preconceptions about them. It is about considering them in their action inserted in their societies. In other words, the contributor’s main hypothesis consists of considering that women in ancient societies were not invariably or systematically sexualized.

Chronicle of King Afonso V by Rui de Pina

2024-05-14T08:55:37+00:00

This book presents the first scientific edition of this masterpiece of Portuguese medieval chronicling. Rui de Pina, chief chronicler of the kingdom and keeper of the Torre do Tombo, creates a dramatic and moving narrative of the events of the reign of King Afonso V (1438-1481), from the turbulent years of the regency of his uncle, the infant Pedro, to the Moroccan wars and the conflict with the Catholic Monarchs over the succession to Castile. An independent-minded writer, Rui de Pina does not spare kings or princes, whose behaviour he criticises whenever he deems it necessary.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book 6

2024-05-08T09:06:18+00:00

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he 'saw', with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written. We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

Travels and diplomacy

2024-05-08T13:06:22+00:00

José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900), in addition to being one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language, was a diplomat and made some important journeys throughout several countries. These trips, as well as his consular activity, enter his fiction and press texts in different ways, which are analyzed in the essays that make up this book.

Women, Race and Ethnicities

2024-04-16T14:57:28+00:00

This book is an introductory reader to Post-colonial and Decolonial Feminisms, and to other issues associated with feminisms of racialized women and feminisms of the Global South. It is based on the experience acquired over the years in the curricular seminar “Women, Race and Ethnicities”, which is part of the PhD Program in Feminist Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and the Center for Social Studies. The volume is structured upon fundamental bibliographical references, which are interpreted and explained, thus opening insights into contemporary issues of Black Feminisms in the United States of America, Europe and Brazil, African, Asian, Latin-American and Islamic Feminisms.

Indiscretions of an illustrious anonymous: Alciphron, Epistles

2024-03-14T16:35:33+00:00

The following lines provide a reading of the 123 ‘letters’ translation in Attic prose, attributed to Alciphron. Author of unknown date, locality from which he was native, and activity, he divides the epistolary fiction into four social groups, namely rustics, fishermen, parasites, and courtesans, preserved in a dispersed way in multiple manuscripts, all late with the conception. In an elegant language, they expose themselves through a list of characters, sometimes male, sometimes feminine, sometimes with recognized names, sometimes not famous ones, under an alleged intimate bond of friendliness, hints of a didactic nature, entangling reality and fantasy, typical motifs of a Second Sophistic. Thus, a list of elements of a Hellenic cultural tradition of a religious nature, heortonymy, toponymy, customs, vices, virtues, philosophy, affections, and behaviors.

Euripides. Fragments

2024-03-07T16:07:11+00:00

This volume presents the first Portuguese translation, with commentary, of Euripides’ work which has come down to us in fragmentary form. The consideration of this material not only significantly expands the poet’s known production, but also allows for a more solid interpretation of the preserved plays, taking into account the author’s overall activity.
This volume, which is still a first one given the large number of fragments of Euripides preserved, includes – in alphabetical order of the Greek – the following titles: Aigeus, Aiolus, Alexander, Alcmeon, Alcmena, Alope, Andromeda, Antigone, Antiope, Archelaus, Auge, Autolicus I e II, Bellerophon, Bousiris, Danae, Dyctis.

“Here we fought, sacred Greece to save”

2023-03-10T16:00:01+00:00

“Here we fought, sacred Greece to save”

2023-03-10T16:42:00+00:00

This volume brings together studies in honour of Luísa de Nazaré Ferreira. Researchers from different scientific domains reflect on themes related to Ancient Greece and Ancient History, but also to other areas of History, Literature, Politics and Religion. Salamis is the main axis around which Vol. I is organised – literary testimonies, their impact on History and the reception in Art and Literature. Vol. II gathers various contributions, from Ancient Egypt and Rome to the Modern and Contemporary Periods. The richness of the themes, which cross time and space, reflects the responses of colleagues, friends and students to the call to participate in this tribute to the Hellenist, professor and researcher of the University of Coimbra, Luísa de Nazaré Ferreira

Interviews

2024-03-06T16:39:56+00:00

Throughout my life as a teacher, I have given several interviews, especially in Brazil, most of them for university television and radio stations.
I believe that interviews are a way of communicating something ephemeral, perhaps gaining greater projection and permanence over time if they are published in book form. Encouraged by this idea (which is perhaps nothing more than an illusion), I decided to select some of the interviews that I have on record (most of them I don't even know where they are) and put them together in book form. For an octogenarian like me, it's an attempt to prolong my own life. I don't think it's vanity (maybe a little...). When readers reach my age, they will understand better what I mean.
I only personally know the interviewers of the first three interviews I selected for this book. Some of the questions (only a few, those relating to aspects of my personal life and my activities in the field of citizenship) may have arisen from the interviewers' knowledge of my life. But, in general, they are academic interviews, although the third and final ones are more related to the sphere of citizenship. They took place at different times and in different contexts. Five of them were carried out on the initiative of colleagues of mine, professors at various universities in Brazil. Three were proposed and conducted by journalists. The last interview selected - which I was very happy to do - was suggested to me by a Portuguese student in Paris, who lived in the Casa de Portugal in the University City, where I lived while preparing my doctorate between September 1973 and April 1974.

Mercury’s Mirrors

2024-02-22T11:51:08+00:00

Espelhos de Mercúrio comprises reflections on the representation of commerce in the Iberian Monarchies during the Early Modern period. This book brings together articles by researchers from different universities, offering diverse perspectives along three topics: 1) the language of commerce, trade organisation and institutions; 2) commerce identities and the social representation of merchants; and 3) the representation of commerce in culture.
From the social and cultural image of trade in Borbonic Spain to the myth of the decadence of Portuguese trade in Asia in Van Linschoten's Itinerario; from the privileges granted to German merchants in fifteenth-century Portugal to the artistic and religious patronage of the Genoese nation in Andalusia; from the Mesa do Bem Comum in Bahia to the Italian community in Lisbon; and from the ideals embodied in the decorative programme of the Stadhuis in Antwerp to the Spanish mercantile community in Portugal, including the social and cultural dimensions of the tobacco business, in this book, we put Mercury in the mirror and approach some of its reflections in the first globalisation.

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances (V)

2024-02-15T14:42:06+00:00

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances presents the synthesis of the scientific debate that several specialists affiliated to the International Association of Lusitanists shared in Rome, during the pandemic. This volume brings together essays which, from a historical, anthropological, sociological or literary perspective, approach and discuss issues related to aspects of culture in Africa (Angola and Mozambique) or to the cultural legacy of the African presence in Brazil and Portugal.

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances (II)

2024-02-15T11:27:34+00:00

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances presents the synthesis of the scientific debate that several specialists affiliated to the International Association of Lusitanists shared in Rome, during the pandemic. This volume brings together studies that discuss issues of sociological, anthropological, ecocritical or inter-artistic nature, transversal to the Portuguese-speaking community. It also contains contributions that deal with journalism, museums, cultural tourism, cinema, theatre, architecture and themes of Galician culture.

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances (III)

2024-02-15T14:18:43+00:00

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances presents the synthesis of the scientific debate that several specialists affiliated to the International Association of Lusitanists shared in Rome, during the pandemic. This volume brings together essays that, in the field of Portuguese Studies, approach authors, themes, texts and literary genres from the Middle Ages to the present day - a diachronic and methodologically varied overview on works and figures from the literary panorama in Portugal, stimulating and complex.

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances (I)

2024-02-15T09:47:02+00:00

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances presents the synthesis of the scientific debate that several specialists affiliated to the International Association of Lusitanists shared in Rome, during the pandemic. This volume brings together studies on Portuguese and Portuguese language didactics in its varieties, ranging from historical grammar to advertising communication, from economic translations to classroom technologies, from teaching-learning in the 16th century to nowadays juridical Portuguese, from personal infinity to cleavage, without forgetting the diachronic, sociological and pragmatic axis.

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances (IV)

2024-02-15T14:30:25+00:00

Portuguese-speaking worlds – Crossed glances presents the synthesis of the scientific debate that several specialists linked to the International Association of Lusitanists shared in the city of Rome during the pandemic. This volume brings together studies on multiple aspects of Brazilian literature and culture from the 17th century to the present day, paying special attention to sensitive issues such as dictatorship, violence, racism and social injustice. Reflections on the status of the literary character or on madness and memory enrich this collection.

Society's Contributions to Reducing Risk in Vulnerable Populations

2024-02-15T11:03:05+00:00

The work “Society’s Contributions to Risk Reduction in Vulnerable Populations” has 14 chapters, reflecting on specific cases of populations at risk. There are four content cores that give the work a unique character. The first concerns the bidirectional relationship between the issue of poverty and conflict, as well as the discussion established around the establishment of what is understood to be the profile of so-called vulnerable populations. The second core of content links the issues of risk, vulnerability, catastrophe, and compensatory measures, revealing different views from law, sociology, economics, and finance (insurance). The third refers to the Portuguese reality, considering pressing issues such as forest fires, gentrification and touristification of urban areas, or civic participation. Finally, the fourth core of content deals with the reality of Latin America, discussing the issue of vulnerability in particular population groups, such as Afro-descendant women, garbage collectors, rural workers and social contexts of poverty.

Heritage in the aesthetics of its time

2024-02-15T15:11:50+00:00

Assuming that aesthetics, as the perception we have of beauty in nature and art, shapes our view of the world, Património na estética do seu tempo (Heritage in the aesthetics of its time) explores the relationship of interdependence between aesthetic thinking and attitudes towards cultural heritage, from the 18th century to the present day.
Between aesthetic trends and art history mechanisms, we set out in search of the repercussions of aesthetically considered strategies on cultural heritage. At the same time, effects on aesthetic perception are sought, resulting from scientific, philosophical and ideological trends of different historical periods, capable of also having repercussions on heritage expedients. Through the appreciation built in each era of the beauty of its monuments, archaeological ruins and objects, works of art and cultural manifestations, it is questioned to what extent heritage was, after all, conditioned by the aesthetics of its time.

The Monarchical Constitutional State of Mixed Government

2024-02-06T10:33:22+00:00

The current moment, characterized by the lack of definition of constitutionalism and the concept of constitution in national, comparative and global contexts, cannot ignore the roots of the constitutional movement. Founded on modern thought, troubled by liberal revolutions, and relatively stabilized after the Congress of Vienna, the nineteenth-century constitutionalism saw the birth of a specific institutional architecture informed by material dimensions, whose influence remains. This work aims to analyze the coordinates on which the various constitutional models are based and outline their foundations.

Changing humanitarianism

2024-01-30T16:44:29+00:00

This work aims to map and analyse the main debates around humanitarianism, its purposes and fundamental dilemmas. From a contextualization at the level of the evolution of international conflict and the historical roots of the humanitarian ideology and its fundamental principles, the marked differences between the original humanitarianism are identified - of eminently rescuer ambition and whose scope obeys a code of principles such as the impartiality and independence – and humanitarianism with a broad agenda, intertwined with policies of pacification, institutional construction or development, contention and resilience. This analysis also intends to open space for a more in-depth reflection on the place and role of humanitarian action, its actors and principles, within the framework of intervention logics and global interventionism, as well as on the challenges facing the theory and practice of humanitarian action. and the dilemmas that cross it.

Les Mots. Diversement Rangés

2024-01-29T15:46:20+00:00

En se fondant sur son enseignement à l’Université de Poitiers entre 1960 et 1990, le professeur R. A. Lawton propose dans cet ouvrage une description systématique de la langue portugaise moderne et contemporaine, à partir d’un corpus d’auteurs portugais et brésiliens, essentiellement consacrée à la syntaxe, et laissant volontairement de côté certains aspects tels que la phonétique, la phonologie et la morphologie du verbe. La méthode a consisté à partir de l’observation des faits pour parvenir à une compréhension des textes observés.

Media education in practice

2024-01-25T12:09:18+00:00

This book, prepared within the scope of the COMEDIG project - Digital and Media Literacy Competencies in Portugal, aims to contribute to the promotion of digital and media literacy among children and young people.

In the context of the increasing ubiquity of digital media, it is essential that children and young people develop competences to use and critically read the media they have at their disposal, to express themselves and participate in and through the media, as well as habits of continuous, critical questioning of their own media practices, as consumers and producers/communicators.

The book combines a theoretical component that underpins media education practices with a set of proposed activities and resources, which address relevant and current themes in this area, also explaining its articulation with the curricular guidelines of basic and secondary education.

Given the fundamental role of the school in this field, the book was designed with, above all, basic and secondary education teachers in mind. However, it may also be useful for other teachers and professionals who work with children and young people at school and/or in other education and training contexts.

Ricœuriana 4

2024-01-17T15:13:07+00:00

Participation and distance, receptivity and activity, affection and the desire for truth: these are the conceptual pairs that run through and that constitute the axis of this book, which is articulated around a question and a central intuition. The question concerns the best disposition of the self to relate to all otherness in such a way that it is received in a qualitatively richer way and in accordance with its index of truth. The intuition is that attention, understood as a structure of active receptivity that finds its limit-idea in generous decentering, is such a disposition. Drawing on Paul Ricœur's early anthropological elaborations, in particular his lecture “L'Attention” (1940), the book describes attention as the relational form of the embodied cogito that we are, and proposes a close relationship between attention, self-esteem and Cartesian generosity. The book explores how this fundamental structure of human subjectivity illuminates the articulation of the ethical with the cognitive, and concludes by suggesting that there is a way of unification that qualifies us in our humanity based on a particular exercise of attention.

Ricœuriana 3

2024-01-17T14:20:39+00:00

The third volume of Ricœuriana brings together a series of studies whose central axis is Ricœur’s hermeneutic proposal. Analyzed directly or compared with other discourses, the itinerary of the French philosopher gives an account, from the beginning to his latest works, of the dialectic between the operations of interpretation: explanation and understanding. Thus, the phenomenological foundation of hermeneutics coincides with the rereading of the self and narrative identity; the ambivalence of the world of life resorts to the theory of action and the phenomenology of the body to claim an ethical concern; and philosophical anthropology is refounded in the stories as existential mediations of the subject. The texts gathered here put forward a reflection claiming that one of the results of the conflictual nature of interpretation is the welcoming of the other through dialogue, writing, and rewriting.

Conimbriga

2023-02-26T22:08:14+00:00

“Conimbriga: the life of a town of Lusitania” offers a complete overview of the archeology of the main Portuguese archaeological site, from its prehistoric origins to its desertification at the dawn of the Middle Ages. The occupation of the Roman city and its territory, which benefits from 130 years of archaeological research, is one of the central aspects of the work, indispensable for understanding an essential element of the history of the Roman province of Lusitania.

From the manuscript to the printed and electronic book III

2023-03-10T15:32:42+00:00

This third volume of texts, resulting from the various sessions of the Conference Cycle “From manuscript to printed and electronic book” (fifth and sixth editions), follows on our aim of promoting research and scientific dissemination in the area of the History of the Book and of Publishing, within the scope of the BA in Languages and Publishing Studies and the Master's in Publishing Studies.

One of the main objectives of this scientific-pedagogical project continues to be to encourage and deepen the articulation between research and teaching, providing first and second cycle students with privileged contact with different specialists, experts in matters related to the history of publishing and publishing production. Furthermore, the development of this initiative has been strengthening and consolidating the already long and fruitful cooperation between the Department of Languages and Cultures and the University of Coimbra Press.

Reception of the Classics

2023-12-21T16:08:18+00:00

This collection contains texts resulting from presentations given as part of a panel at the "Conference in Classics & Ancient History", which was held at the University of Coimbra (June 2021). The essays in this collection consider the reception of Greco-Roman Classics in Literature, recognizing that ancient literary activity developed within a long tradition. Furthermore, this process enabled authors of later times, whether close or distant in time, to "appropriate" the works of their ancient predecessors, retaking, remodeling, or even translating them. In this broad sense, the works of poets and/or translators such as the
anonymous writer of Aetna (1st century AD), Giovanni Boccaccio (14th century), Publius Ovidius Naso (séc. I a.C. –I d.C.), Marcus Valerius Martialis (1st–2nd century AD), João Guimarães Rosa (20th century), Machado de Assis (19–20th century), Castro Alves (19th century), the translator António José de Lima Leitão (18–19th century), and others are successively analyzed under a receptive bias.

Vida da Faculdade de Letras 2022-2023

2023-12-19T09:31:28+00:00

DNA Sequencing - NGS

2023-12-04T10:26:46+00:00

This guide to good practices is not intended to impose a particular sequencing platform, kit or protocol. Rather, the ultimate aim of this document is to contribute to the production of quality genomic and clinical data in laboratories in the Central Region. It was carried out with a particular focus on the processing and analysis of germline variants. However, other omics take place within the scope of genomic medicine which, despite their different purposes and origins, are to some extent also covered by the recommendations contained in this document. The same applies to the different methodologies. Although there are currently several NGS platforms on the market, we will highlight the sequencing by synthesis (SBS) technology used by Illumina sequencing platforms, which is also the most widespread in the Central Region. However, it is up to each laboratory to choose the methods best suited to its laboratory routine.

Disability in Portugal

2023-12-11T15:42:29+00:00

Based on the particularities and dynamics of Portugal's economic reality and socio-political environment, this book brings together a diverse range of experiences and struggles, creating a vivid portrait of the dynamic reality of people with disabilities in Portugal at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. At the same time as it seeks to contribute to the development of Disability Studies in our country, this collection seeks to account for the vibrant diversity of experiences of people with disabilities, affirming the importance of their crucial contribution to a critical thinking made up of emancipatory knowledge, insurgent identities and renewed agendas for social justice. This book thus seeks to think about democracy from the bodies, voices and experiences of people with disabilities in Portugal.

Porto's urban space

2023-12-11T17:35:40+00:00

PhD dissertation in geography presented to the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra

Portuguese Literary Medievalism in a European Context

2023-12-11T14:33:45+00:00

In the first part of this volume dedicated to literary medievalism in a European context, the first three studies discuss different conceptualizations of medievalism, terminological issues and disciplinary boundaries and complementarities, while also outlining the medievalist reality in the United Kingdom, France and Spain.
The second part is organized diachronically, according to the chronology of the works studied, which extend from the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, including authors such as Alexandre Herculano, Ruy Cinatti, Agustina Bessa-Luís, João Miguel Fernandes Jorge and a film by filmmaker António de Macedo. The fruitfulness of the temporal intersections endogenous to the discipline competes with the instability and historical determination of the representations of medieval otherness and with the reciprocal questions that the Middle Ages and contemporaneity pose, in a persistent inquiry into the limits of knowledge of the past and the present that rethinks it, academically or artistically.

Roman Identity and Contemporaneity

2023-03-06T15:31:35+00:00

This set of essays aims to offer the reader a systematized perspective of the presence and influence of Roman culture, especially at the level of identity issues, in contemporaneity, “contemporaneous” being understood here as the historical reality that followed the French Revolution, at the end of the 18th century. The studies brought together cover political and institutional realities, but also historiographical and artistic topics, from Literature to Fine Arts and Heritage. The collected texts focus mainly on the Portuguese reality, but

Ad Tenebras

2023-12-19T15:55:57+00:00

The time of Lent, as a period of penitence and spiritual renewal, culminates in Holy Week with the Easter Triduum celebrating the Passion of Christ: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. On each of these days, the offices of Matins and Lauds form a single long Office of Darkness (Tenebrae) describing the path from light to darkness. These three days are fundamental in the Christian calendar with numerous 16th and 17th century Portuguese sources of plainchant and polyphony for those ceremonies still preserved.
Accompanied by the musical interpretation of the ensemble Capella Sanctae Crucis (dir. Tiago Simas Freire), we offer an overview of the music destined for these Offices of Darkness - Ad Tenebras - found in manuscripts from the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra, today preserved in the General Library of the University of Coimbra.

Memories in Motion

2023-11-14T10:26:33+00:00

Memories in Motion was born as a Portuguese-Castilian bilingual volume to try to establish a bridge between researchers working in the two Iberian languages across the Atlantic Ocean. It therefore has a transnational perspective aligned with the field of Iberian studies, as well as with studies of memory, trauma, and non-fiction cinema, with special emphasis on Argentinian and Chilean documentaries of the 21st century.
This volume also aims to combine theoretical reflection on strategies for representing cultural memory in cinema with the analysis of various case studies from different countries (Spain, Portugal, Argentina, and Chile), including documentaries made by Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán. To conclude the volume, in fact, we decided to include the edited transcript of a recent interview with this documentary filmmaker in order to better contextualize the previous five chapters, which focus on analyzing his work.

Personalized Genomic-Based Medicine

2023-10-31T09:47:35+00:00

This Manual of Good Practices is intended to be an ethical and legal guide, based on national and international legislation and ethical documents that address the topics covered, aimed at healthcare professionals.
Advances in genomic-based Personalized/Precision Medicine (PPM) are developing at such a dizzying pace that, in certain respects, the legal system is not evolving at the same pace. As a result, many of the challenges arising from this new model of medicine and healthcare provision do not find sufficiently clear answers at the regulatory level. Starting from the recognition of this gap, the aim is, in addition to presenting the possible solutions already clarified in the legal system, to bring to mind the many other ethical and legal challenges offered by the MPP in the field of genetics.

Subsidies for structuring the history of events in the district of Congo (Uíge) - Volume II

2023-10-25T15:48:29+00:00

In March 1961, Custódio Abel Fernandes Ramos - administrator of the municipality of Carmona (Uíge) - witnessed the start of the armed struggle for Angolan independence on the ground. Tasked with narrating the events by the then Minister of Overseas Territories, Adriano Moreira, Custódio Ramos produced a detailed report consisting of more than a thousand pages of information on the first months of the nationalist insurrection promoted by the Union of the Peoples of Angola (UPA) in northwest Angola. In this report, Custódio Ramos not only diligently documented the facts surrounding the outbreak of the armed struggle, but also tried to interpret them in political and ideological terms, in the context of the Cold War, using the analytical and discursive methods typical of the Estado Novo. In this sense, the report, now published in a facsimile edition, is a precious and extremely relevant documentary source not only for reconstructing the historical facts themselves, but also for understanding the thinking and reaction of the Portuguese colonial administration in the first year of the war in Angola.

Subsidies for structuring the history of events in the district of Congo (Uíge) - Volume I

2023-10-25T15:05:05+00:00

In March 1961, Custódio Abel Fernandes Ramos - administrator of the municipality of Carmona (Uíge) - witnessed the start of the armed struggle for Angolan independence on the ground. Tasked with narrating the events by the then Minister of Overseas Territories, Adriano Moreira, Custódio Ramos produced a detailed report consisting of more than a thousand pages of information on the first months of the nationalist insurrection promoted by the Union of the Peoples of Angola (UPA) in northwest Angola. In this report, Custódio Ramos not only diligently documented the facts surrounding the outbreak of the armed struggle, but also tried to interpret them in political and ideological terms, in the context of the Cold War, using the analytical and discursive methods typical of the Estado Novo. In this sense, the report, now published in a facsimile edition, is a precious and extremely relevant documentary source not only for reconstructing the historical facts themselves but also for understanding the thinking and reaction of the Portuguese colonial administration in the first year of the war in Angola.

The mnemonic device

2023-10-23T14:59:31+00:00

Based on original and detailed empirical research, this book provides the first comprehensive research on how the liberation struggle has been publicly remembered in Cape Verde. Through an innovative approach, which proposes thinking about this historical event as a political subject, the book argues that the notion of struggle constitutes a mnemonic device that is mobilised in the negotiation of contemporary representations of the Cape Verdean nation, state and society.

The worlds of (under)development

2023-11-21T09:01:46+00:00

Bringing together a group of authors of recognized merit in the field of history, but dialoguing with other disciplines, this collection of reference texts explores, in a multifaceted and problematizing way, the major issue of "development" in the 20th century, starting from various geographies and manifestations, multiple problems and diverse perspectives and proposals for analysis. To understand the plural histories of development is not only to understand, in a more specific way, its discourses and practices, invocations and uses, motivations and consequences. It is also to understand how these histories have intersected with other histories - of self-determination and decolonization, of human rights and environmentalism, of the "Cold War" and globalization - thus creating the conditions for interrogating the contemporary world, and the 20th century in particular, in a more in-depth and elaborate way. In its richness and diversity, this collection of texts shows how and why.

Myth and Drama

2023-09-26T14:19:55+00:00

This title brings together a set of texts, grouped into two sections: a Part 1, still focused on the old myths and their expression in the ancient theatre, tragic and comic, and a Part 2, which goes through a variety of rewritings, dispersed among the various literatures under discussion.
In addition to returning to the specific analysis of some classical myths and themes, it expands a set of studies on mainly contemporary rewritings, scattered across different literatures of the Latin world, set in specific historical contexts that explain and justify them.

Medeia

2023-09-21T10:27:21+00:00

Medea, presented at the Great Dionysia in 431 BC, along with two other tragedies and a satirical drama that have been lost, was not Euripides' first play. On the contrary, the debut of the youngest of the three great tragedians is usually dated to 455 BC, with a play also linked to this theme, The Pelias. But Medea is perhaps the oldest of the tragedies preserved.

30 years, 30 anthropologists

2023-09-20T11:07:55+00:00

In the academic year in which the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Degree in Anthropology at the University of Coimbra (1992/1993) is celebrated, 30 anthropologists give their testimony on why they came to study Anthropology at this University and how this formation has contributed to their professional/personal paths. A range of testimonies attest the diversity of pathways that can be followed from this initial training and the importance of Anthropology in so diverse areas of knowledge.

What’s Hecuba to me?

2023-09-19T14:03:17+00:00

This book brings together a series of studies about theatrical monologues, or literary texts which lend themselves to some sort of dramatization and theatrical production, performed by well known mythical characters or inspired by them. Each chapter is devoted to a contemporary fictional (and/or theatrical) text which is considered both relevant and useful for the academic learning of any graduate or postgraduate student in the different areas of expertise dealing with Arts and Humanities, such as Degrees in Classical Studies, English Studies, French Studies, Spanish Studies, Literary Theories and Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies and Gender Studies, among others.

Historiographical Alexander

2023-03-21T11:43:23+00:00

In a famous statement, Ulrich Wilcken argues that each historian has his own Alexander. A critical examination of the traditions in Historiographic Alexander allows to reconsider both our ideas of alterity and success, and how great can be a human being, or to what extent what was great in the past still has to be accepted as such in our present days. To sum up, to revisit Alexander from the eyes of the historians in the Contemporary Age offers a genuine opportunity to rethink History as such, and to evaluate how can we imagine new ways to explain the past in order to build a rich appreciation of the present in order to imagine brand new futures. The aim of the following pages is to review Alexander’s portraits and concerns in the works and scopes of the more recent historical traditions of the XIX^th and XX^th Centuries

The University of Coimbra and its Students in the Eyes of Foreign Travelers (1581-1879)

2023-09-19T15:14:49+00:00

In the study “The University of Coimbra and its Students in the Eyes of Foreign Travelers (1581-1879)” are collected 30 reports of foreign travelers, men and women, covering 10 nationalities and a chronological period of 298 years in the history of this institution and of the country. The narratives address various topics related to the University of Coimbra (its creation, the courses taught in different periods, teaching and assessment methods, academic traditions, university spaces, Teachers and Students, the University's participation in the national political context, etc.) but also with key moments in the history of Portugal, such as the Iberian Union, the restoration of Independence, the Pombaline Reform of higher education, the French Invasions and the Civil War.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book 5

2023-07-27T11:20:13+00:00

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he ‘saw’, with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written. Book V, dedicated to Olympia, occupies very symbolically the centre of the Description of Greece, as a territory emblematic of Greek identity.

Contributions of Geography to the Teaching of Risks

2023-03-10T15:20:56+00:00

This book brings together knowledge from different Geography researchers, with the aim of promoting discussions and reflections in the interface of three fields - Geography, Risks and Education - for an audience made up of student, teachers, researchers and other people interested in this thematic.

It is organized in two parts, whose diversity of chapters invites a careful reading of aspects that comprise a theoretical-conceptual and methodological basis; case studies that contribute to the understanding of the different types of risks, their multi-scale manifestations and, mainly, a discussion and reflection on the subject of risks in the context of teaching, based on school experiences and research in the light of Geography.

For this understanding of space and risks, the authors reinforce the need to build concepts in the formative process, highlight the potential of reading landscapes, territories and places on different geographic scales and show, with their case studies and experiences, the relevance of physical-natural, socio-economic, socio-cultural phenomena, which may initially seem uninteresting to many students, but which in the teaching-learning process become socially significant and necessary contents, in basic and academic training, respected the specificities and objectives of each of these universes of initial, professional and citizen training.

Music Manuscript 51 from the General Library of the University of Coimbra

2023-02-26T22:20:34+00:00

In the wake of a doctoral research project, the author offers us a critical edition of the musical manuscript 51 from the General

Library of the University of Coimbra, the cornerstone of his research into the 17^th century musical production from the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra. This is the first of three volumes, each dealing with one of the liturgical feasts to which the contents of the manuscript are dedicated: Christmas, Ascension and Corpus Christi.

The present publication, constructed according to a philological and critical positivist approach, is the result of an intense period of revision and maturating of the critical edition of this repertoire through multiple concerts and the recording on CD (Zuguambé, Harmonia Mundi, 2017).

Part of the Mundos e Fundos project, this is a rigorous and graphically carefully crafted work that offers us a privileged window to the collection of 17^th century musical cartapácios now kept in the General Library of the University of Coimbra.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Lives of the Caesars. Book VIII. The Flavians. Lives of Vespasian, Titus and Domitian

2023-07-07T14:09:27+00:00

Translation accompanied by introduction and notes of the Vidas dos Flávios, the dynasty that ruled Rome between 69 and 96 A.D. This family, although it did not have ancestors as illustrious as their predecessors and was of Sabine origin, brought stability to Rome after the successive coups d'état that took place after Nero's death. But while the biographies of Vespasian and Titus emphasise mainly positive aspects (Vespasian is presented as a good-natured restorer of the city and society, and Titus is described as "love and delight of the human race"), Vespasian's youngest son Domitian is associated with the typical platitudes of tyrants, a set of vices that justify his death.

Portuguese-Moroccan Relations in the 16th Century: Portuguese

2023-07-07T16:08:13+00:00

Luso-Moroccan relations are undoubtedly the reflection of a secular relationship that has its roots in a Mediterranean heritage and a historical process that varies in its aspect of both confrontation and contact. And it is also a relationship with a strongly strategic component. Portugal and Morocco, two countries of the finis terrae, with a binational history, embody a beautiful and epic aspect of this contact between the North and the South of the Mediterranean.
The presence of the Portuguese in Morocco from 1415 to 1541, -the year in which Portugal began to lose its fortresses in North Africa- arose to solve vital problems (economic and socio-political) resulting from the lengthy European depression as well as to escape and resist the threat of annexation by the kingdom of León-Castela, whose power was imposed throughout Spain. It is therefore to ensure its national survival that Portugal undertook its expansion, embarking on the conquest of North Africa. The conquest of Agadir in 1505 and the expansion in the southern region of Morocco obeyed contrary to the northern phase to other factors of strategic and economic nature that aimed to isolate the Maghreb country from its Afro-Sub-Saharan space and enjoy its riches. Such intention generated a local and later national reaction personified in the Saadid sheikhs who unleashed a multidimensional counter-offensive aimed at suffocating the Portuguese fortresses economically and militarily, fighting their allies the Moors of peace, re-establishing the trade with the Maghreb.

Museu de Arqueologia D. Diogo De Sousa. The Bühler-Brockhaus Donation

2023-07-06T14:27:07+00:00

This study presents the masterpieces from the Bühler-Brockhaus collection donated to the D. Diogo de Sousa Archaeology Museum, Braga (Portugal).
Thirty-six masterpieces from different Mediterranean civilisations were selected, dating from the second quarter of the 7th century BC to the end of the 3rd century AD. These include marble and bronze sculptures, mosaics, terracotta’s, ceramic vases, bronze, bone and gold objects

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Lives of the Caesars. Book VII. Galba, Otho, Vitellius

2023-07-07T09:35:42+00:00

This volume contains the translation, with introduction and notes, of the Lives of the three brief emperors - Galba, Otho, and Vitellius - who succeeded each other in Rome between the death of Nero in June 68 AD and the violent entry of Vespasian’s partisans into Rome in December 69. These are, then, the biographies of the protagonists of a bloody period of dynastic transition between the Julio-Claudian emperors, who died out with Nero, and the Flavians, the dynasty inaugurated by Vespasian: a period of 18 months of upheaval in which the imperial investiture was decentralized, and provincial armies and praetorian soldiers rivaled each other with the aim of imposing an emperor of their liking.

Coimbra Aristotelian Jesuit Course. Tomus III: De Caelo – Part II

2023-06-30T10:53:23+00:00

A volume dedicated to Aristotle’s ‘De Caelo’, known as Coimbra Jesuit Commentaries on Aristoteles, published in Lisbon in 1593, by Manuel de Góis (1543-1597), Part II, commenting and discussing subject matters such as: the celestial spheres, their movement and the movement of the first mobile, the sky, the light of the stars and the heat, the earth, its size, its division, where it is placed and whether it remains immovable.

European Public Sector Accounting 2nd edition

2023-06-29T14:36:05+00:00

Public sector accounting (PSA) and reporting was subject to considerable national reforms during the last decades and is in the focus of the European Commission aiming to harmonize the accounting systems of its Member States by developing European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS). Therefore, the topic is of high relevance for both academia and practitioners.
This book provides different views about PSA in Europe as of today. It spans topics such as history of PSA, its differences to private sector accounting and finance statistics, as well as budgeting. A main part is devoted to International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) by addressing their spread, conceptual framework and selected public sector specific standards, including a case study. Also, consolidated financial reporting is covered by drawing examples.
This textbook is not only of use for students and researchers, but interested readers that seek for broad perspectives on PSA such as practitioners and members of intergovernmental organisations. It intends to complement university teaching modules on PSA as those accessible for free under www.uni-rostock.de/weiterbildung/offene-uni-rostock/onlinekurse/european-public-sector-accounting/.

Formação Inicial de Professores, Flexibilidade e Avaliação Educativas: da Teoria à Prática

2023-06-01T16:22:32+00:00

BASIC TEACHER TRAINING, FLEXIBILITY AND EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE represents a collective effort of current action research in the fields of didactics and teacher training. This work essentially rethinks pedagogical supervision, the flexibility of programmes, teachers and students, and educational assessment in the light of current teaching-learning conditions and those of its students, in an attempt to clarify and point towards paths for the most relevant challenges in this area.
A result of stringent studies and investigations on representative corpora, this work demonstrates, as a whole, how much of a solution can be glimpsed today, but also how much is left to ascertain regarding the permanent fieri at the heart of teaching-learning itself, but also of learning to teach.

Literature and Other Arts in Dialogue

2023-06-02T10:51:32+00:00

The relationship between literature and the other arts favours the intelligibility of the literary text, its cultural context, and the dominant aesthetic sensibility of its time. Depending on the circumstance, this holistic approach may privilege periodological, stylistic, aesthetic approaches, transcoding processes, interartistic or intermedial fusions, diachronic reconfigurations of a theme or motif, or transmedial phenomena.
The attention that both the Essential Learning (2018) on the subject of Portuguese and the Profile of the student at the end of compulsory education (2017) pay to aesthetic and artistic sensibility, one of the ten skills to be developed, requires a careful reflection on teaching practices and on the emerging field of interart and intermedial studies. Literature and other arts in dialogue aim to contribute to the teacher-researcher's awareness of a more consistent and fruitful dialogue between different artistic domains.

A Oficina de Gil Vicente

2023-06-01T13:50:39+00:00

Serving the royal court for 35 years, Gil Vicente wrote and staged about fifty plays, covering the different genres of European theater of the late Middle Ages.
Despite the diversity that characterizes his work from the thematic and formal point of view, there are coherent lines that allow us to establish important connections between the plays.
This is the case from the Visitation and the Auto Pastoril Castelhano (both performed in 1502) to Floresta de Enganos, performed in 1536, which is the epilogue of an unusually extensive, regular and continuous creation.
Throughout the different essays that make up the present volume, an attempt is made to demonstrate the unity and uniqueness of a work that, for various reasons, has never been repeated in the history of Portuguese and Peninsular culture.

The role of Centro de Estudos de Química Nuclear e Radioquímica in the flourishing of research in chemistry at the University of Coimbra

2023-05-12T14:41:29+00:00

At the origin of the new paths for the development of research in the area of Chemistry, at the University of Coimbra, is the Centro de Estudos de Química Nuclear e Radioquímica, planned by the director of the Chemical Laboratory, Rui Gustavo Couceiro da Costa, for nuclear studies. It was built in 1955, in landscaped space between the University Hospital and the side access of the Chemical Laboratory. Here, in the early 60’s, research groups, promoted by Fernando Pinto Coelho, responsible for the Centro de Estudos de Química Nuclear e Radioquímica and chair of Physical Chemistry, namely, Radiochemistry, Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Thermodiffusion, Raman Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry and Photochemistry and Atmospheric Chemistry. If, for one or two decades, the strategy developed enabled the creation of a strong Department in Chemistry, although with little overlap in the scientific areas of the different groups and, consequently, little internal scientific competition, the evolution of the sociological structures of science came to require greater concentration on common themes and, inevitably, the development of complementarities and points of intersection between the different research groups that projected, in terms of R&D, Chemistry, at the University of Coimbra, to levels of quality and dimension that it came to enjoy on the national and international scene.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book 4

2023-02-26T22:24:45+00:00

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he 'saw', with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written.
We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

Performing Arts and Intimacy

2023-05-10T14:30:28+00:00

The relationship between performing arts and intimacy expresses itself in multiple and contradictory valences, creating heuristic possibilities with profound socio-political implications. The opening of the individual intimate sphere to other intimate spheres configures an act of interpersonal sharing that allows the privilege of the experience of another human being in that which is most profound and singular. But a fair analysis will lead us to recognise that, under certain circumstances, this space of intimacy may also (and perhaps should) legitimately remain closed to others. It is within this framework that, through their creators, theatre and the performing arts have developed interesting ways of dealing with problems of the intimate sphere in the contemporary world. Since performative work invariably leads to the investigation of bodily, emotional, mental and relational processes of the human condition, this edition intends, through an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, to contribute to the mapping of the concept of intimacy in its relationship with the performing arts in a plural, political and affective way.

Cornelius Nepos. Lifes of Epaminondas, Cato and Atticus. Fragments

2023-02-26T22:13:45+00:00

The volume is dedicated to the work of Cornelius Nepos, Lives of Illustrious Men. It contains a general introduction about the author; a summary of each untranslated life, and a translation of the biographies of Epaminondas, Cato and Atticus (with developed commentary and annotation). The translation and notes of the fragments are also presented. The text constitutes an important source for the study of the biographical genre and the history of classical antiquity, from classical Greece to the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Principate and its contacts with other civilizations.

Neurosciences and Mental Health

2023-05-08T14:26:00+00:00

We live in a time when few mysteries persist, but perhaps two still arouse our fascination and interest in transcending the frontiers of knowledge that limit their understanding. One is the macrocosm of the universe with its infinite space and celestial bodies. The other is the microcosm of our brain, contained in our head, but which also contains galaxies of complexity in the intricate molecular workings of its cells and in the electrical pulsation of its neurons. This organ that is the actor and author of all our thoughts, emotions, actions, dreams and plans is so close to us, after all we all have one, but at the same time so far from our complete understanding. Thus, the brain is the undisputed protagonist of this book that invites and challenges us to a conceptual digression that has neither a starting point nor an arrival point, but rather a polysemic journey, which raises more questions than answers.

Business Law Compendium

2023-04-19T09:34:25+00:00

This book brings together pedagogical texts on fundamental notions of business law. Based on the traditional sources and systematization of commercial law, as well as jurisprudence, this compendium covers topics such as the qualification of commercial and merchant acts, the company as a subject and object of transactions (maxime, transfer and transfer of exploitation), distinctive signs, commercial companies (as a dominant species in the business world, especially private limited companies and public limited companies), as well as state owned enterprises, agency and other distribution contracts, the regulation of competition, and corporate social responsibility.

Independence and Independent Brazil Vol. I

2023-04-13T10:02:04+00:00

As Marc Bloch rightly points out, "the incomprehension of the present is fatally born out of ignorance of the past. But perhaps it is not less vain to exhaust oneself in understanding the past if one knows nothing of the present". In this sense, therefore, the present work aims to understand the Brazil of today, two centuries after its independence from Portugal, from important reflections on its historical process of political, economic, social, cultural and identity construction of the Nation, its continuities and ruptures, convergences and divergences, internal and external, in relation to itself and to other nations.

Independence and Independent Brazil Vol. II

2023-04-13T13:46:29+00:00

Works of Ernesto da Silva, the apostle of socialism - Volume I

2023-03-15T15:27:21+00:00

The work of Ernesto da Silva is organised in three volumes.
Volume I. Literary texts. Pages of theatre criticism and aesthetic theory (1893-1903). It contains the author's literary production: short stories, dramatic texts and plays that were staged in the theatres of Lisbon at the end of the 19th century, together with articles of theatre and literary criticism, and the translation of a short story. The volume is complerado with the poems written in honour of the author.
Volume II. Journalistic articles (1893-1903). Contains the author's journalistic output in the coeval socialist and republican press. Offers insight into the concerns and interests of socialists at the end of the 19th century.
Volume III. Political writings, conferences and speeches (1893-1903). It contains the doctrinal production of Ernesto da Silva, published in the press of the time or in loose form as opuscule and pamphlets. It is completed with speeches and several interventions in party organs and class associations.

Works of Ernesto da Silva, the apostle of socialism - Volume II

2023-03-15T16:58:20+00:00

Works of Ernesto da Silva, the apostle of socialism - Volume III

2023-03-15T17:18:53+00:00

The work of Ernesto da Silva is organised in three volumes.

Volume I. Literary texts. Pages of theatre criticism and aesthetic theory (1893-1903). It contains the author's literary production: short stories, dramatic texts and plays that were staged in the theatres of Lisbon at the end of the 19th century, together with articles of theatre and literary criticism, and the translation of a short story. The volume is complerado with the poems written in honour of the author.
Volume II. Journalistic articles (1893-1903). Contains the author's journalistic output in the coeval socialist and republican press. Offers insight into the concerns and interests of socialists at the end of the 19th century.
Volume III. Political writings, conferences and speeches (1893-1903). It contains the doctrinal production of Ernesto da Silva, published in the press of the time or in loose form as opuscule and pamphlets. It is completed with speeches and several interventions in party organs and class associations.

Tourism Discourses and the Challenge of their Translation

2023-02-27T15:09:32+00:00

This volume brings together eight chapters which meet at the crossroads between Tourism Studies and Translation Studies, highlighting the challenges faced in an area highly marked by contact between cultures, languages, and discourses.
The works compiled here cover different languages, different theoretical perspectives, different textual genres, and translation problems. Within this scope, one of the main features of this volume is the approach to Tourism and Translation in the Portuguese context. Also noteworthy is the fact that these studies focus on specific themes, such as cultural tourism, namely wine tourism, the communication of Tourism narratives in travel catalogues or podcasts, or even the issue of accessibility to cultural assets and the role Translation plays in this context.

Merleau-Ponty and the questioning of the metaphysics of the Subject

2023-02-28T11:03:24+00:00

In what sense do the first works of Merleau-Ponty represent a turning point in the history of philosophy in the last three hundred years? To answer this question, the author introduces us to the paradigm of the "Metaphysics of the Subject" that is currently disguised as the "philosophy of reflection" that since the thought of Descartes characterizes both intellectualism and empiricism. From this perspective, the proposal contained in the first works of the French philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, will represent a clear attempt to question the epistemological explanations that put a kind of transcendental eye (an I, a subjectivity) behind and under all kinds of experience, real and possible, and at the same time they will lay the foundations for an ontophenomenological broadening of the philosophical horizon, beyond tradition and in direct connection with the revolution that we find in the art and science of the 20th century.

European Union as an International Actor

2023-02-17T17:00:16+00:00

This volume analyses the European Union as an international actor, focusing on its role in peace and security. In an international context where the challenges to peace and security are diverse, including the current context of war in Ukraine, this volume theoretically contextualizes the EU in peace and security studies, explores the institutional dimension of its functioning, and interprets the narratives and policies this actor pursues. A set of illustrative case studies seeks to reflect on the dynamics of peace and security within the framework of the EU and its actions/interventions, such as in the Eastern Partnership or in relations with Russia, and in contexts such as growing disinformation or through its presence on a mission on the ground.

Corporatism: Ideas and Practices

2023-02-17T10:33:29+00:00

The State and corporatist structures created in several countries in Europe and Latin America since the 1930s were not only considered outdated and in need of reforms during the neoliberal wave that imposed on these same regions in the 1980s and 1990s, but seen, above all, as a legacy of an authoritarian past and a factor of crisis and delay in the economic development of countries such as Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and Argentina.

Contrary to what many economists and social scientists then said, the liberal and privatizing reforms of those times did not represent a safe path for the development of these or other nations, which remains an important challenge for their governments today. In this sense, therefore, as the studies gathered here point out, corporatism is not defined as a model of regulation and mediation of interests strictly associated with authoritarian or fascist regimes of the interwar period or as an obstacle to the full development of market capitalism in the contemporary world, but in the form of regulation and economic and social intervention of the State compatible or adaptable to different regimes and times.

Erythrina the heroine

2023-02-16T12:02:40+00:00

"Erythrina the heroine", the main protagonist of a true story, describes facts of the past and present of the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra. The illustrations reveal evidences of science, which allows easy understanding and apprehension, preferably live, of basic concepts of physiology and plant morphology. With a simple, transversal and multidisciplinary discourse, we review the History of the Garden, and its 250 years (in 2022), of plants and animals, in real scenario, raising particularities and concepts of botany and the adaptation and resilience of plants, heroines, to climate change. Day-to-day cases like this, promoting spaces of Science and UC heritage, intend to awaken, from an early age, the discovery, importance, interpretation and understanding of what surrounds us. Sustainability values, based on the fundamental principles of environmental education, highlight the main message, available to all audiences, and are aligned with current indications of curricular flexibility.

From the dynamic exploration of this illustrated history of science, innovative school projects are enhanced, to integrate regularly and conducive to new values, interdisciplinary knowledge, attitudes and behaviors to adopt, in the face of the socio-environmental crisis and demands of the future.

Essays on Production and Trade in Late Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean

2023-02-14T14:37:49+00:00

From the tenth century on, technical and technological advancements in agriculture resulted in an unprecedented growth of cultivated land in Europe, which would contribute to a progressive integration of markets.
This economic drive occurred during a time of profound political, social, and religious change. In certain parts of Europe, citystates emerged to become the standard form of polity, breaking away from previous ruling models and thrusting a new era of urban life and economic development. This period was also marked by the zenith of Islam throughout the Middle East, the Maghreb, and the Iberian Peninsula, with its people revolutionising agricultural production. Through specific case studies, this book aims to understand how these pieces of the medieval economy worked and evolved, how distinctive they were from one region to another, and what consequences local, regional, and international trade have had in people’s everyday lives.

Dramatic Production in the Hellenistic Period and Its Influence on Later Greek-Latin Literature

2023-02-06T10:14:28+00:00

The texts gathered in this book were presented at two conferences, the Sixth Week of Studies on the Hellenistic Period: Dramatic Production in the Hellenistic Period and its Influence on Later Greco-Latin Literature, held at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo, between March 10 and 11, 2020; and in the First Journey of Studies on the Hellenistic Period: Dramatic Poetry, held at the Faculty of Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, between April 12 and 13, 2021. Both events are linked to the Hellenistica research group, founded in 2011 at the University of São Paulo with the objective of periodically organizing events aimed at the study of literature from the Hellenistic period, bringing together Brazilian and foreign scholars working in this area.

O livro de Vallo

2023-01-16T15:17:13+00:00

The “book of Vallo” is the translation of the treatise written by Battista della Valle, printed in the same year as Machiavelli's “Military Art” (1521). Della Valle was, unlike Machiavelli, a “practical soldier”, so his “book” articulates the tradition of Classical warfare with the technical innovations introduced in the Renaissance battlefield, setting the standard for the “de re militari” treatise that it flourished in Italy, especially in the second half of the 16th century. The Portuguese translation, dated from c.1576, is a particularly important text not only from a military point of view, because it demonstrates the relevance of the “Italian military school” in the context of sebastic military reforms, but also as a testimony of the connection between the graphic and textual supports as practised in sixteenth-century Portugal, whose theme – warfare – proved so dear to the North African ambitions of the young king D. Sebastião.

Defence against the Portuguese Amatho

2023-01-09T11:45:27+00:00

This book shows how religious and racial prejudice, in parternship with an oversized academic arrogance, were able to undermine sense of fairness even in fields pertaining to those sciences more apparently free form ideological or nationalistic motivations, as botany and pharmacology. Violently reacting against some polite comments made by portuguese physician Amato Lusitano, the italian well known botanist Mattioli showed how racial prejudice was still used as a scientific argumente. This book is also a good exemple of the importance of Humanist Latin as a tool even in the fields of science.

From food cultures to food cults. Volume I

2023-01-12T14:23:21+00:00

The present work brings together studies by specialists from different areas of knowledge that are dedicated to reflecting on food phenomena from two distinct but intercommunicating axes of analysis: food cultures and food cults. These axes organize the book both from the formal and conceptual point of view, since they reveal the paradox expressed by food cultures as living but invisible forces that participate in the construction of culture (volume I), and, at the same time, by highlighting some foods as objects of diverse forms of cult that emerge from invisibility to stand out as signs of discourses and human cultural practices - religious, ethical, artistic, gastronomic, medicinal (volume II). The richness of the themes that cross varied times and spaces and the multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches make this work an important contribution to the area of Food Studies and the Humanities in general.

From food cultures to food cults. Volume II

2023-01-12T14:52:02+00:00

We Global

2023-01-12T11:46:34+00:00

We Global: Ongoing Research on Globalization Themes collects reflections and results of a set of ongoing research projects, in the field of global studies. Each text represents a distinct approach to key phenomena of our times, all of them entailing deep and intensive interactions between different regions of the planet, according to social sciences’ perspectives. So distinct issues as the fascination and reinterpretation of former civilizations, tourism, cinema, conservative political movements, environmental disasters, labour precariousness or homeless populations, enable us to think about this new world that we are inhabiting and forging each day. Together, as it is systematized in the introduction, this collection supports our efforts to understand core changes taking place today and how global studies may develop creative and critical perspectives to intervene in such a complex and contradictory world.

Themes, Contexts and Challenges of Qualitative Research in Education

2022-12-22T12:09:33+00:00

The book discusses several themes, contexts and methodological challenges of doing science, within the scope of the use of qualitative research methodologies in social and human areas of knowledge. Theory is combined with the application of knowledge through the presentation of pratical examples. It is mainly aimed at postgraduate students, who deal with dilemmas in terms of the design of their research projects, but it can also be useful for students at initial levels of higher education, as well as for researchers at different stages of their careers. Some particularities of scientific work with people of different age groups, from children to aged people, are discussed. It also reflects on methodological issues inherent to different contexts, more private or more public, and new possibilities for combining science with teaching are presented. Fulfilling the mission of openly disseminating scientific knowledge, there are contributions in the book on scientific writing and communication in science. A non-exhaustive glossary of terms is presented to promote an easier reading of the book's chapters.

Studying without melancholy

2022-12-22T16:43:51+00:00

The volume consists of two parts.
The first part is concerned with the discussion of theoretical and methodological aspects of literary historiography from a systemic point of view, fundamentally based on Even-Zohar's Polysystem Theory and the developments made by the author. This part discusses issues concerning the consideration of national (as) literatures and their canon historiography and canonization processes, the functionality of literary studies for the knowledge of communities, the analysis of narratives and their relation to communities, and the conception and function of teaching and research in literature.
The second is a part applied to cases of Portuguese literature. With examples applied to illustrated women, to Bocage's position in the historiographic construction of the 19th century; to Camilo's trajectory; to the analysis of a period of field intensity and tensions (1891-1910) and to the Galician, Brazilian and African cases in some contemporary Portuguese historiography, with emphasis on A. J. Saraiva and Ó. Lopes

Choreological Studies (2016-2020)

2023-02-16T11:40:16+00:00

The present publication - the result of the investigative work of Portingaloise – Associação Cultural e Artística in partnership with Kale Dance Company and under the seal of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra - aims to contribute to the expansion of scientific production in the area of choreology in Portugal. Accompanying the growing development of academic studies in the area of dance, performance or the performing arts, studies in historical choreology inform about the practice of dance in specific contexts, favouring contact with period sources and observing its relationship with the other arts, as well as with the philosophical, social and political context in which it is inserted.
This volume, integrated in the Mundos e Fundos series, as well as in the homonymous research project, intends to accompany the commitment of the University of Coimbra in promoting research in the area of Performing Arts, in a logic that is both specialized and interdisciplinary, which will surely constitute an important contribution to the meeting of academic and artistic production in the country.

Discourse Markers in/and Translation III

2023-01-12T11:04:09+00:00

This volume gathers, among others, the papers presented at the MarDisT Colloquia, which took place at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra in 2019 and 2021, with the participation of international experts in the field.
The papers compiled here cover different languages, different theoretical perspectives, different textual genres, and translation problems, with discourse markers as the common denominator.
We hope that the diversity of reflections will raise interest in the area and encourage further research.

Pathways in Educational Sciences: Place for Utopia

2023-01-10T10:38:54+00:00

This book is the result of an encounter between people who have long collaborated in the training of teachers and educators in Training Centers, Universities, and Research Centers. Each one of them understands, in his or her own way, that utopia cannot be removed from Education, otherwise it would be deprived of its human and humanizing meaning. However, a contemporary discourse of diverse provenance, conveying the urgency of radically changing the School, as well as the urgency of innovating its purposes, procedures, and actors, tends to push utopia away from the educational horizon, bringing, in parallel, dystopia closer.

With this problem in mind, they decided to organize a cycle of conferences where it could be thought about in the light of philosophy, ethics, anthropology, history, psychology, and pedagogy. The path (or paths) that these disciplines, so marginalized in this discourse, have taken constitutes precious support in deciding the future of education, which, contrary to what they insist on implying, is not determined and closed; it is, as it has always been, open, taking the direction that we understand, in the present, to give it.

Tale of the Two Brothers

2023-01-05T16:04:17+00:00

The Tale of the Two Brothers, Bata and Anpu, is a New Kingdom text and one of the best-known tales in all of Egyptian literature. Although it is considered a literary text, it was written with great simplicity and, apparently, without any literary pretension, being clearly timeless. It contains two distinct parts. The first presents a universal theme: the interest and anger of a woman towards a man she has no right to love and who, despite him refusing her advances, ends up denouncing him to her husband as having tried to rape her; the second part, the solitary life of a man far from everything and everyone, where magic and the wonderful, the extraordinary and the unusual are a constant. This text allows two essential types of reading: a literal reading, or manifest content (confrontation with the material, intellectual and geographical knowledge of the time in which it was written), and a metaphorical reading, or underlying content (analysis of the symbols it contains, prefiguring an allegory, created to remain hidden beyond literal reading).

Culpability and Time

2023-01-04T10:49:36+00:00

This work brings together a set of essays that seek to bring together, around the problem of "Culpability and Time", perspectives of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law, which not only intersect with each other, but also cross various latitudes and longitudes, allowing a multidisciplinary reflection.
Organized around five problematic nodes – Culpability, constitutive historicity and practical-cultural meanings / The principle nullum crimen sine culpa and the problem of the autonomy of Law / The principle nullum crimen sine culpa and the philosophical and dogmatic problem of the purpose of punishment / The principle nullum crimen sine culpa in the context of the general theory of the criminal offence / Time and culpability experienced in dogmatically specific problems – the work constitutes a tribute to a jus-philosophical and dogmatic thought, aiming to affirm itself as a cornerstone in the exploration of a timeless theme.

Imagologia e Mobilidade - Movidas e Migrações Figuradas

2022-11-11T16:52:51+00:00

The purpose of this work stems from a number of important questions in the present world: In a globalised world is it still relevant to ask questions relative to identity and collective identity belonging? Will it be useful to consider an imagological perspective when considering our own cultural representations or those of other cultures? Is it preferable to speak of literary transnationalism or migrant literature? As a result of discussions and debates among the researchers involved in the project “Literatura, Imagologia e Transnacionalismo” (“Literature, Imagology and Transnationalism”), the essays presented in this volume analyze the fictionalisation of various themes arising from feelings of uprooting or cultural maladjustements and also of psychic overburden of forced mobilities, in different literary works. Thus, this volume has literary analysis dimension, but also opens up to a cultural dimension, as these essays expose the construction of characters that have been, or still are, agents of mobility (with their structural and contextual dependencies), and the aftermath and consequences of this mobility in future generations (also involved in multiple cultural shocks).

The European Integration Process

2022-11-11T16:45:12+00:00

The process of European integration is considered the most innovative example of regionalism in the world.
The Covid-19 pandemic crisis, which the world experienced since the beginning of 2020, caused a brutal negative shock on the economies. It raised new doubts and challenges about the European integration project, making the prospect of the EU’s dissolution something possible, even if undesirable.
The book analyses these events, counting with the contribution of 41 authors, from universities and research centers of several European countries, and also from other continents. Its objective is to gather four perspectives to the European integration in a post-pandemic context: I) that of the countries of the Eurozone; II) that of the Eurozone candidate countries; III) the East “look” of EU candidate countries, and IV) the view of the rest of the world.
The book is divided into four parts, each corresponding to one of these inputs, for a total of 24 chapters.

The Capitalist State and its Masks

2022-11-10T11:01:08+00:00

Beginning by studying the roots of the capitalist state, the author recalls the writings of the Physiocrats, Adam Smith and highlights the importance of the French Revolution.
He then analyses the transition from the liberal state to the Keynesian state, following the evolution of capitalism (competition capitalism, monopoly capitalism, state monopoly capitalism), and illustrates the impact of the First World War, the October Revolution and the Great Depression.
Having defeated Nazi-fascism and put aside corporate 'solutions', the changes imposed by the Second World War led to the Keynesian revolution and the welfare state, which the author examines from a critical perspective.
Particular attention is paid to the monetarist counter-revolution and the neo-liberal policies (Washington consensus) that put it into practice, translating, through the action of the regulatory state and the guarantor state, into anti-worker policies that paved the way for new forms of fascism, the strength of which can be seen in the United States and the European Union.
The last chapter examines the scientific and technological revolution to reach the conclusion that capitalism is not the end of history.

Une valse à mille temps.

2022-11-11T16:49:13+00:00

Une Valse à mille temps is a tribute volume to Cristina Robalo Cordeiro. Essays, artistic creation, and various testimonies trace the multifaceted career of the university professor, the projects she led in the context of the French and Portuguese-speaking world, university management, her civic intervention, and her experience as a fiction writer.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book III

2022-11-08T14:19:31+00:00

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he 'saw', with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written.
We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

Impressions on Portuguese Music and other topics (II)

2022-11-07T15:46:31+00:00

Impressions on Portuguese Music and other topics (II) deals with Music, composition-interpretation; review of books on music, literature, poetry and adventure by Portuguese writers; as well as the reception to most of the recitals the author presented in Portugal from 1959 to 2017.

Palavras Ditas…

2023-01-05T12:44:07+00:00

O projecto que vos deixo, é o de repetir o irrepetível, o da renovação permanente dos Homens e das instituições, o da confiança em nós mesmos e nos outros, o da celebração da vida colectiva, o da vinculação à utopia. Se vale ou não a pena, dúvida de uma outra circunstãncia, tormenta de um outro cabo, conteúdo de uma outra Mensagem, se vale ou não a pena só depende, como todos sabemos, da maior ou menor dimensão das nossas almas.

Tomada de Posse, 28 de fevereiro de 2007

(É necessário) ...libertá-la das oscilações de curto período, do zigue-zague da moda, dos estímulos da conjuntura, da vulgaridade mediática, da cultura do efémero, da urgência de respostas e de reacções a notícias que condicionam tudo e todos, e que se esgotam e contradizem ao fim de dois dias. Conseguir resistir à voragem do que é urgente por ardilosa superficialidade, para pôr em perspectiva um outro sentido do tempo que permita fazer, com espíritos serenos, a Mudança Tranquila. Abertura Solene das Aulas, 19 de setembro de 2007
Não vos posso mostrar cartilhas, porque não as há. Mas posso alertar-vos contra os homens providenciais, que sempre significaram e significarão a demissão de todos os outros. A única receita para o sucesso é fazermos nós, honestamente, o nosso trabalho: comparar realidades, aferir conceitos, validar propostas, discutir experiências. Estudar, estudar, estudar sempre e tentar encontrar a nossa via, o melhor caminho para trilhar, em função das nossas próprias convicções, no cotejo de ideias, tentando convencer os outros, mas sabendo igualmente sopesar o valor dos seus argumentos.

Abertura Solene das Aulas, 17 de setembro 2008

Quarenta anos depois, vale a pena recordar-vos que um dia sonhámos os dias actuais e que amanhã os dias são sonhos de agora. Mas se um dia, perdidos, deixarmos cair as asas do sonho que transpõem metas, se um dia, vencidos, nos dermos tristonhos à simples rotina do passar dos dias, então, sonhando o futuro no dia que passa, não passa o futuro do dia do sonho.

Abertura Solene das Aulas, 16 de setembro 2009

Palavras Ditas…

2023-01-05T15:35:08+00:00

Não foi este Museu encomendado, chave-na-mão, a um especialista estrangeiro, nem adquirido num dos catálogos de exposições temporárias que percorrem o Mundo. Assumimos, desde o início, o objectivo de desenvolver um projecto original. Para isso, procurámos ajuda de quem detinha maior experiência e mais conhecimentos. ... (Neste processo) dotámo-nos de competências de que não dispúnhamos, constituímos um grupo capaz de criar e manter um Museu da Ciência pouco dependente de fornecedores e de comerciantes. A nossa interacção com eles, quase todos nacionais, é agora na qualidade de autores e projectistas, não de consumidores. E isso faz toda a diferença.

Laboratório Chimico, 5 de dezembro de 2006

Universidades e Laboratórios são como gâmetas diferentes da mesma espécie. Podem ter estratégias diversas de curto prazo, condicionadas pelas conhecidas especificidades morfológicas de género, mais inerciais umas, mais cinéticos outros, mas são identicamente indispensáveis, em conjunto, a qualquer estratégia ganhadora de médio ou longo prazo. É preciso que se fertilizem mutuamente pondo em comum o melhor que têm, sem perda de identidade ou de independência... Espero e desejo que possamos continuar a entrelaçar os nossos cromossomas

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 13 de abril de 2007

Inúmeros episódios da secular história de Coimbra e da sua Universidade cruzam-se com o desenvolvimento, a emancipação e o progresso do Brasil e são, por sua vez, claramente influenciados pela intervenção de homens e mulheres brasileiros e pela cultura brasileira. O nosso imaginário colectivo tem um recanto comum. Homens e mulheres a tecer destinos, portugueses e brasileiros em andanças e desandanças da vida, hoje decantadas em História, em memória e em lenda. De certa forma, a Universidade que represento não é só de Coimbra, nem apenas de Portugal. É também a Universidade de todos os que, nos quatro cantos do mundo, amam, pensam e escrevem em português, esta língua que é a nossa Pátria comum.

Sala dos Capelos, 27 de Novembro de 2008

Ricœuriana 2

2022-10-25T14:10:29+00:00

This second volume of Ricœuriana – Coleção da Associação Ibero-Americana de Estudos Ricœurianos is dedicated to the question of image and imagination, which is the topic of the main thematic issue of this book. The issue comprises chapters exploring topics such as critical hermeneutics, metaphoric image and emancipation, all connected with the main topic of the issues, as well as the Portuguese translation of two texts by Paul Ricœur: “From Poetry and Possibility” and “Architecture and Narrativity”. Following the thematic issue there is a section of varia containing a chapter and a book review dedicated to other aspects of Ricœur’s thought not directly related with the main issue.

Scientific Networks of the University of Coimbra during the Enlightenment

2022-10-21T16:23:31+00:00

The Century of Lights is a dazzling period for the University of Coimbra and its buildings and scientific collections bear witness to that.
This book brings together a set of texts on the role of the Enlightenment in Coimbra and in the world, written by scholars from various areas of science and humanities. The texts focus on a period ranging from the creation of the new statutes for the University of Coimbra to the independence of Brazil, presenting the history of the Enlightenment in Coimbra and its impact on buildings, its scientific collections, technical and economic transformation. The interdisciplinarity of this work is evident in the variety of areas of specialization of its authors, as diverse as history, art history, history of science, museology, architecture, mathematics, physics, chemistry, health, life and earth sciences.
The publication of this book coincides with the celebration of the 250 years of the Pombaline Reform of the University of Coimbra, in the year in which it celebrates 732 years since the signing of the document scientiae thesaurus mirabilis. Thanks to King D. Dinis, the founding document of the UC already contained the word SCIENCE.

António Jorge Andrade de Gouveia. A Piece of Portuguese Chemistry

2022-10-21T15:42:03+00:00

Professor António Jorge Andrade Gouveia (1905-2002) was a multifaceted personality involved in different activities and contributions to Chemical research and education, history of science, and university government, as evoked by the authors of this volume. The chemistry community recognizes its contribution to chemistry, but it is the facet of Dean of the University of Coimbra that is better known by the public. This work traces a vivid and profound portrait of his life and scientific heritage.

O Regime Florestal em Serpins

2022-10-18T09:54:06+00:00

More than one hundred years separate the original book from the current reprint. It is a work with scientific, social and human relevance, that may be able to help us reframe problems for which there is no solution in sight problems for which there is no solution in sight: climate change, unequal human unequal human relations, and the slim possibility (or even impossibility) of people to cooperate to produce, conserve, and improve a place where they belong. a place to which they belong.

Theory and curriculum development

2022-10-13T09:13:16+00:00

The Notebook is intended to support the training of Education and Teaching students in the area of the school curriculum. Specifically, it includes its conceptualization, major theoretical issues that are inherent to it, as well as its development process. As the core of the training is the contemporary Portuguese education system, wider temporal and spatial contexts are necessarily considered.

The “ILO-Chair” at FEUC

2022-10-10T08:36:59+00:00

This book brings together a selection of texts from the first three editions of the “ILO Chair”, established by a protocol signed in 2017 between the University of Coimbra, through its Faculty of Economics (FEUC), and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
The book is organised into four parts, each of which consists of two chapters and refers to a relevant thematic grouping on the future of work: i) The ILO between the historical legacy and the future of decent work; ii) Labour standards, jobs and climate challenges; iii) Inequalities, work and gender gaps; iv) Work, digital economy and the right to disconnect.
Each of the 8 chapters is matched with a commentary co-authored by FEUC professors and/or researchers from its main research centres – the Centre for Social Studies (CES) and the Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER). A plurality of dialogues with the ILO on the future of work is thus produced, reflecting the wealth of disciplinary visions that make up the FEUC community.

Valete Vos Viatores

2022-10-07T10:41:58+00:00

Inscriptions were one of the trademarks of Romanization. Used as a real mass media, they covered almost all facets of Roman public and private life. Following common patterns, however, this habit of engraving inscriptions, the so-called “epigraphic habit”, took shape in different manifestations in each region, in each province, configuring diverse and attractive epigraphic cultures. This volume, the result of a Creative Europe project coordinated by the University of Navarra and with the participation of the University of Coimbra, the one at Bordeaux and La Sapienza in Roma and, also, of the Museo Nazionale Romano and different research centers in Portugal, France, Spain and Italy, reviews not only the functions of some of these inscriptions with new approaches to well-known repertoires but also the new tools that -from the rise of the Internet to the use of digital photogrammetry, from digital epigraphy to 3d epigraphy- are being implemented for their study, their understanding and, above all, the social dissemination of their values, builders, in large part, of European identity.

Catalogue of Drawings of the Botanical Garden of Coimbra University

2022-10-03T10:02:03+00:00

This catalogue contains 40 drawings of the Botanical Garden of Coimbra University, founded by the Statutes of 1772, but which, due to various vicissitudes, saw its construction extended over time, being the last of the undertakings of the Pombaline Reform to be completed. The drawings (plans, elevations and profiles), 35 of which have never been published before, allow us to trace the course of the works carried out in the garden from the 18th century to the mid-20th century.
By Macomboa, José do Couto, Neves e Mello and Cottinelli Telmo, for example, the drawings, not all of which are signed and dated, offer a new insight into the construction process of the UC Botanical Garden, the architectural solutions planned and those implemented, in a dialogue between the artistic and scientific components. In addition to the sumptuous drawings known up to now, these are mostly documents with notes and working notes, studies and projects in current use, which were kept in the "gardener's drawer".

Boris Groys Philosophical Conversations - Towards Self-Design

2022-09-22T14:33:50+00:00

This work was conceived in the form of successive conversations between Boris Groys and Catarina Pombo Nabais, both specialists in the field of Philosophy. The themes of the conversations raise issues that have an impact on modern Western thought, dialoguing, in an innovative and autonomous way, with established concepts.

Traces on The Sea: Portuguese Interaction With Asia

2022-09-19T09:48:42+00:00

A closely-argued collection of articles by five respected Portuguese professors on various aspects of the long relationship between Portugal and its former colonies in Asia, TRACES ON THE SEA presents material on history, linguistics, architecture, and ethnomusicology focusing on Goa and elsewhere in Asia touched by Portuguese culture over the centuries. The book provides a background to the academic study of Goa and also as a site stimulating ideas for future research.

Multicriteria Evaluation in Decision Processes

2022-09-02T16:30:04+00:00

Many decision-making processes – especially the most important ones – concern decisions that can have several economic, environmental, social or technical consequences. The decision process should then encompass not a single, but multiple criteria in the evaluation of the different alternatives. This book introduces the theme of multi-criteria evaluation in decision processes, from the structuring phase, which defines what to evaluate and how to evaluate, to the attainment of conclusions that are sought to be robust in the face of doubts that may exist.
It discusses some overly simplistic methods sometimes used in practice, and it presents in detail some well-founded processes for conducting a multi-criteria evaluation. The text intends to be pedagogical, while identifying some of the most recent advances in the area of multi-criteria decision aiding (MCDA).

União Europeia como Ator Internacional:

2022-09-15T14:59:50+00:00

Este volume analisa a União Europeia como ator internacional, focando na sua atuação na área da paz e da segurança. Num contexto internacional onde os desafios à paz e segurança são diversos, incluindo o atual contexto de guerra na Ucrânia, este volume contextualiza teoricamente a UE nos estudos de paz e segurança, trabalha a dimensão institucional, e interpreta as narrativas e políticas aqui implicadas. Um conjunto de estudos de caso ilustrativos procurarão refletir sobre as dinâmicas de paz e segurança no quadro da UE e das suas ações/intervenções, como por exemplo na Parceria a Leste ou nas relações com a Rússia, e em contextos como o de crescente desinformação ou através da sua presença numa missão no terreno.

The University of Coimbra and the Independence of Brazil

2022-09-06T15:01:06+00:00

The University of Coimbra was the alma mater of many of the key players in Brazil's Independence. Between 1822 and 1831, despite the illiteracy of the overwhelming majority of the Brazilian population, 86.7% of Ministers, Senators and Councillors had a university degree and 71.8% of these had obtained their qualification in Coimbra. The Brazilian historian J. Murilo de Carvalho has even attributed the unity of the new independent country to the Coimbra background of its intellectual elites. In the year in which the 200th anniversary of this event is being celebrated, the UC has designed an exhibition of 66 original pieces of documentation, which clearly show their involvement in the process of Independence. The project originated with a request made to the General Library of the University of Coimbra by the Vice-Rector for External Relations and Alumni, which was immediately joined by the University Archive.

Euripides’ Iphigenias

2022-07-11T13:53:23+00:00

The main purpose of this volume is the transcription of the translations / adaptations of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia among the Taurians, made by Cândido Lusitano. Preceding the text of the plays, transcribed from a still unpublished manuscript, the book opens with an introductory study, focused on two essential topics: the Greek tradition of the myth of Iphigenia and the specificity of the Euripidean versions; the treatment of the myth of Iphigenia, in the form of translation and adaptation, among the members of the Arcádia Lusitana.

Living Animals

2022-07-13T14:16:16+00:00

The International Year of Biodiversity proclaimed by the United Nations was celebrated in 2010. Already then the UN stated that the world was unfamiliar with the vital role biodiversity plays in human well-being and in maintaining the planet, adding that we were not taking enough steps to preserve the biodiversity that still exists and ensure sustainable life on the planet.

The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra then organised a programme of activities, BIODIVERSITY 2010, aimed at calling the public to get to know and discuss the problems that were already facing the future of biodiversity. It was in this context that the project entitled Os bichos no tempo dos nossos avós (Bugs in the time of our grandparents) took place, in a partnership between the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra and the then Institute for Traditional Literature Studies (IELT) of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon.

The aim of the project was to collect and disseminate popular knowledge and traditional literature related to animals, allowing us to better understand how our ancestors dealt with the biological diversity around them. It was also a way to reach the small communities in the interior of the country and broaden the mobilisation effort for the preservation of biodiversity. Throughout that year, several sessions were organised around the theme Animals in our grandparents' time, giving rise to the texts collected in this book.

Podcast and the new dynamics of sound contents in the digital environment

2022-06-28T15:10:05+00:00

This book, organized by Sílvio Santos and João Miranda, culminates a research path devoted to get a deeper knowledge of the podcast sector in Portugal. This area is being the focus of an increasing interest, especially in the field of media studies. However, despite the fact that this new paradigm of sound production already has a consistent expression in Portugal, we are still at an incipient stage, with regard to scientific production in our country.
Indeed, when, in 2019, the first edition of the Podes Festival took place, podcasting was already a phenomenon with relative expression in the Portuguese context. A reconfiguration of the Portuguese sound media context was underway, which involved a set of not only technological, but also social and economic transformations, which underlie a profound reorganization of the communication ecosystem.

Observação dos Ventos. Sociedade & Direito (2010-2022)

2022-05-23T09:14:12+00:00

“Watching the Winds” speaks for itself. It is a meeting of reflections carefully matured and presented to the reader as an exercise in both the pedagogical and the ordering of thought. (...)
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha is an extremely well-known author, with a multifaceted and profound work. In good time he decided to gather these opportune proses. In the book that I am happy to preface, he presents us, in the rhythm of his relationship with the general public, a careful observation of times and their signs, illustrating for today what the Greeks called “paideia” and the Latins as “humanitas”. Learning is at the heart of life, which forces us to look at the world from multiple angles and perspectives. And, as our author says, the discourse “is not so much about the bewilderment of the world, which seems to transpire from some darker diagnoses. It's about the immense will and energy to be able to make the earth habitable; in this case, not talking about ecological habitability (which is fundamental and presupposed, because it implies Life itself) but about the health of the spirit, in its most diverse dimensions”. From the Preface, by Guilherme D’Oliveira Martins.

Raízes do Censo Consignativo

2023-01-27T12:06:31+00:00

Dissertação de concurso para Professor extraordinário da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra.

Miscelânea de Estudos em Honra de Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva - Volume II

2022-11-14T17:22:40+00:00

This volume brings together diverse studies in the areas of Greek and Latin Literatures, Culture, Philosophy, Art, Linguistics, Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Humanism, Reception of the Classics, and Contemporary Portuguese Literature.

Miscelânea de Estudos em Honra de Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva - Volume I

2022-11-14T16:16:28+00:00

22 Contos Escolhidos

2022-11-07T17:18:56+00:00

The themes of these tales are varied, all marked by the unusual, which has merited studies by specialists (such as Flavio Garcia, State University of Rio de Janeiro). The dominant themes are the Spanish Civil War, aspects of Madeiran life, a tale about the death of Camilo Castelo Branco, the revolts of February 3, 27 in Oporto, and the revolt of Madeira, in 31st February. Experiences and dramas in Trás-os-Montes. Still Oporto, especially a drama about S. João. Venice and Trieste through charismatic figures - Baffo, Voghera and Baron Crow. Other stories are of a more intimate character.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book II

2022-05-03T11:30:00+00:00

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he ‘saw’, with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written.
We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

Jesuit Coimbra Course: the Commentary on Aristotle's 'De Anima'

2022-05-02T14:11:21+00:00

A Commentary on Aristotle's 'De Anima' as part of the Coimbra Jesuit Course (1592-1606). This volume is dedicated to the translation, edition, explanation (explanatio) and questioning (quaestio) of books I and II of this Aristotelian work, mostly dealing with biology, the senses, the sensible and intelligible knowledge.

Obras de Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira X: Recensões Críticas, Notícias e Comentários

2022-04-21T16:24:31+00:00

This volume gathers Critical Reviews, News and Commentaries

Patriotic Resistance and Liberal Revolution 1808-1820

2021-08-13T14:36:34+00:00

This book focuses on the history of politics and ideas and explores the discourses of an era marked by the outbreak and memory of the French Revolution. Her author adopts a transnational perspective and shows how revolutionary temporality, recovered by Napoleonic campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula, took on polysemic and conflicting manifestations. She also explores the converging factors of the Peninsular political process and, in the conflicting enunciation of the political field, confirms the permanence of deeply rooted beliefs and symbols in Portuguese society. These aspects are understood in the social, cultural and institutional context of the beginning of the 19th century in Portugal.

The book invites the revisiting and critical review of central issues, within the framework of the evocation of the Bicentennial of the 1820 Revolution and Portuguese Constitutionalism.

Curricular Challenges in 21st Century

2022-03-31T15:53:20+00:00

This work aims to be a place of reflection around the significant curricular challenges happening in 21st century schools. On the one hand, it addresses the policy of language teaching in Portugal and its repercussions in the school / academic context. On the other hand, it discusses the premises of project-based learning, crossing theoretical and practical perspectives on the mobilization of transversal knowledge and skills from different areas and life trajectories. Focused on the multiple dimensions of the current school system, it is possible to find several contributions of fundamental research, models and proposals of pedagogical-didactic applications, ranging from the recognition of artistic manifestations as contextual products and results to the reading experience mediated by the teaching of particular strategies. Issues such as the interaction between the built landscapes and their environmental impact are also addressed, as well as the effect of digital transition in various learning scenarios.

Linguistic Studies - Volume II

2022-03-24T12:23:23+00:00

This book is divided into two sections, emphasizing the author’s major lines of research: Historical Linguistics and the History of the Portuguese Language, on the one hand, and Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, and the topic of Contact Languages, on the other. Section One includes a number of articles on general questions and a set of texts with a theoretical component which discuss methodological problems pertaining to Historical Linguistics, combining this perspective with an analysis of some specific aspects concerning the history of Portuguese language. Also included in this section are a number of studies that deal with concrete phenomena of linguistic change or with ‘external’ aspects of the linguistic history of Portuguese, including, in some cases, comparisons with other peninsular languages.

The second part of this book gathers a set of studies on Portuguese dialect variation, on the issue of linguistic minorities, and on the topic of contact languages, addressing different cases of language contact in border areas of the Iberian Peninsula territory which involve Portuguese differently.

Linguistic Studies - Volume I

2022-03-21T17:16:23+00:00

The mathematical library of the University of Coimbra (1913-1969)

2022-10-03T09:38:17+00:00

The year 1913 had just begun when the Board of the Mathematical Section of the newly created Faculty of Sciences of the University of Coimbra appointed Professor Henrique de Figueiredo (1861-1922) to direct its private library, which, from April of that year onwards, would take the name of Mathematical Library. It is the genesis, formation, and development of the library of the Mathematics Department of the University of Coimbra that we recount in this text at the moment when 100 years have passed since its foundation.
We will focus our attention on the period before 1969, when the Mathematical Library had its premises in the building of the former Colégio de S. Pedro, in the Paço das Escolas of the University of Coimbra.

Plutarch. How should young people listen to poets?

2022-03-15T15:02:47+00:00

With De audiendis poetis Plutarch returns to the old debate between poetry and philosophy, radicalized in Plato’s Republic and resolved in Aristotle's Poetics, although never completely overcome. The theme is taken up from the socratic point of view – that of education – and the author insists on the same topoi used by the master – the useful and the pleasant. But, unlike this one, its proposal is to defend and demonstrate the pedagogical potential of poetry as propaedeutic to philosophy.

Writings on Philosophy, Science and Art

2022-02-15T17:06:45+00:00

In the first centenary of the birth of Egídio Namorado, the present anthology edited by the Coimbra University Press presents to the reader a significant part of the writings by one of the biggest science epistemologists in the Portuguese twentieth century. Man of Science and Culture, citizen committed to social and political issues of his time, humble, serene, kind, smart, with blazing intelligence, indefatigable worker, with unlimited curiosity, with multiple and varied interests, without hurry, nurturing the critical reflection permanently renovated, never renouncing to the rigor. The core of the work, integrating the first part of this compilation, is a coherent and innovator set of essays on diverse aspects of the epistemology of science and the scientific method, including their evolution from Ancient Greece until the third quarter of the last century. In the last part of this section a scientific work on Atomic Physics is included, reflecting in the introduction the authors nature, crossing languages and knowledge with mastery. The second part includes writings on very diverse subjects, from scientific and technological dissemination, to art theory, the philosophical influences in the poetry of Camões and Pessoa, and to the History of Portugal, with special relevance to the time of the Portuguese discoveries.

The Judges’ Faith

2022-03-08T11:25:04+00:00

Who were the Portuguese inquisitors? How have their judicial practices evolved over the almost three hundred years of existence of the Holy Office in Portugal? What faith, what confidence, did inquisitors have in their own judgments? A fé dos juízes retraces the Portuguese Inquisition’s history from a legal point of view, the careers of the inquisitors and the dissensions existing among them. We notice that quite quickly many of them, generation after generation, ceased trusting the effectiveness of the methods used in heresy trials, and that these dissatisfactions were an important element of the 1770’s reforms. What is told is the history of the Portuguese Holy Office before its final decline, phocusing in what was at the heart of its existence: the trials for heresy.

A Oficina de Camões

2022-02-23T17:10:56+00:00

After the 450th year anniversary of its publication (in 2022), Os Lusíadas justifies a critical revisit.

That is the purpose of this volume. Based on previously published studies in magazines or collective volumes, but now re-elaborated in content and form, the book aims to provide an up-to-date and global view of the Camões' epic. Due to its pedagogical concern, it aims to reach a wider audience, including university students and educational agents.

The well-tempered Reason

2022-02-17T14:29:52+00:00

The idea that gives title and tone to this volume is taken from the first essay, which points out the various aspects of the profound aesthetic transformation of Philosophy carried out in and by Kant’s philosophy. The importance of the Taste metaphor-principle is highlighted as a notion upon which eighteenth-century aesthetic thought and discourse is constructed in its most qualified expression, but also as a shaping principle of philosophical thought in general, which gives it an unmistakable feature, recognizable in the language and in the way of understanding the production of thought and the nature of Philosophy itself and its peculiar poetics. The first four essays explain the effects of this “shift to Aesthetics” as it did in and through Kant’s philosophy. A second group of essays develops little-visited aspects of Kantian moral and political thought. And the last four essays show the fruitfulness of the philosophical polemics, whether presenting Kant as an interpreter and critic of other ancient and contemporary philosophers, or showing little-known interpretations of Kant’s philosophy itself, which have some relation with other essays integrated in the volume.

Being Classical in Brasil

2022-02-15T15:06:59+00:00

This book is a display of how Brazilian Literature received Classical Tradition in some of its most renowned works. We intend to reflect about the ways in which Brazilian authors re-read and re-wrote Classical culture in a significant way to their own cultural context. Avoiding the traps of ethnocentric comparative interpretations, we suggest that the survival of Classical texts in Brazilian Literature rests in a dialogue between reiterating identity and inaugurating fundamental differences. Therefore, this book’s aim is to display some significant examples of the richness of Brazilian literature: works which are innovative in their use of Classical elements to create their own universe. It is our wish to point at the potentialities of works that are still unknown, or not much studied, worldwide, in order to offer our audience the possibility of getting in contact with some of the most important and influential authors within Brazilian literature, while offering comments and insights on the main themes in their works and on how they explore the Classics in their own creations. In this sense, this volume also investigates how diverse the Brazilian reception of the classics can be from the European one.

Building up the Church, consolidating the empire

2022-02-09T12:05:44+00:00

The passage through the University of Coimbra and the attainment of a degree in Theology or Canons became, since the 16th century, an essential criterion for episcopal provision. In this sense, the Coimbra academy was fundamental in the formation of the bishops who worked in the dioceses of Brazil between the 17th and 18th centuries. This book intends to reconstitute the intellectual and university formation of the bishops of Olinda, Rio de Janeiro and Bahia and, mainly, to examine their episcopal action, trying to ascertain the possible impacts of the application of the knowledge acquired in the Coimbra institution and throughout their ecclesiastical career. The first part of this study examines the academic trajectories at the University of Coimbra and the careers of future bishops after leaving the institution, as well as the examination of the models of bishop predominant in the period studied and the clientelistic networks which made the ascension to the mitre possible. In a second moment, in chapters dedicated to each of the dioceses, the episcopal government of each prelate is evaluated, without losing sight of the general panorama of the relations of these subjects with the endogenous and exogenous powers of the diocese.

Terrorism

2022-02-02T17:42:42+00:00

The work recognises the opportunity and the need to focus on Law 52/2003 and on the chain of amendments that have transformed it up to now. It is this reflexive level - carried out in the modus of a commentary - that the first part preserves. The second part imposes itself without solutions of continuity: it is still about developing a legislative commentary and directing it to the spectrum of solutions generated by the revision of the National Strategy of Combating Terrorism, one of the systematic authoritarian-prescriptive contexts (but also one of the historical occasions, wounded by the Charlie Hebdo "affaire") which the interpretation of the Law today inevitably assimilates. The third part develops with other intentions from the theme that underpins the work as a whole - that of the response(s) of Law to the problem of terrorism. It is about allowing dogmatic-material approaches to combine with considerations of criminal policy and with meta-dogmatic reflections, but it is also (and above all) about pretending to hope that such coexistence may involve its authors and reach its potential audiences as a truly productive composability.

Vieira, Mystic of the Global Action

2022-11-17T16:00:58+00:00

The work of Father António Vieira is an immense ocean of possibilities and interpretative novelties. Much has been written about the various facets of his life and thought, from politics to literature, from economics to anthropology. Few, if any, studies have focused on the spiritual and mystical dimension of this man who is rightly considered a mystic of action and master of a spirituality of action. Vieira lived in a time that we call the dawn of globalisation.
The way he observed and gave us to observe that changing world allows us to better understand the world of our days, also insofar as he dreamt of a different humanity. Many of his concerns are those of women and men of the 21st century. Some of the ways out he proposed for the dramatic perceptions of the drifts of human history can address the restlessness of the human heart of all times. This book that the reader has in her hands, by Eugénia Abrantes, revisits Vieira's work through hermeneutic approaches that benefit from the dialogue between the scientific areas of psychology, theology and mystical literature, in which the author is a specialist. It gives us an unprecedented perspective on Vieira's legacy, articulated with the concern to shed light on the current state of the world, in a process of accelerated and deregulated globalisation. The risks that Vieira foresaw 400 years ago for the spectacle of the planetarisation of relations between peoples remain highly topical. The path of spirituality that Vieira suggested in his sacred oratory and in his prophetic work on the future of Portugal and humanity is carefully presented and analysed in this book as a proposal to reverse what the author calls the spiritual devitalisation of today's globalisation.

100 Years Father Manuel Antunes, SJ: Rethinking Portugal, Europe And Globalisation

2022-11-18T10:51:26+00:00

The work now being presented to readers, comprising texts that resulted from an effort to analyse Portugal, Europe and the world in the Global Age, against the backdrop of the intellectual exercise undertaken in the 20th century by Father Manuel Antunes to understand and make others understand humanity’s past and present drifts, crowns a set of initiatives (complete work, select works, scientific events, documentaries, radio and television broadcasts, exhibitions, the building of memorial sites...). These were promoted in the first two decades of the 21st century, aimed at reviving and disseminating Antunes’ memory, exemplary action and intellectual legacy, which inspire us to build a project of culture and education based on a kind of humanism that liberates the human being and turns man fully human, in harmony with his natural environment.

This multi-authored book, which we now offer to readers, both present and future, is also a tribute to a wise man who believed in the ever-renewed capacity of human beings to become better persons and whose profound intellectual legacy can still inspire, we are sure, new generations, also present and future, so that we can live freely and continue to build a more fraternal world.

Bullying. Impacts on Education

2022-01-26T15:59:46+00:00

This book, written in three languages by thirty-three experts from five countries on two continents, brings together a set of reflections and research data on an unprecedented topic in the field of high abilities: school bullying, which many gifted and talented students are subjected to by their classmates and teachers. The editors offer technicians, educators and those passionate about the incessant search for knowledge several mottos for changing behaviour, attitudes and policies on a subject that is as pressing as it is worrying. Reading this book will not leave the reader indifferent and will certainly contribute to reducing the scourge of bullying.

Pausanias. Description of Greece

2022-01-20T15:49:00+00:00

We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

Vida da Faculdade de Letras 2020-2021

2022-01-14T16:19:05+00:00

1655 Stopover in Coimbra

2022-01-12T15:16:17+00:00

In the letter published here, a young Jesuit priest educated in the colleges of the Society of Jesus in Brabant gives a detailed account of life in the College of Jesus in Coimbra, where he stayed for a few months in 1655, on an unscheduled stopover during his journey between Europe and the Far East. Inácio Hartoghvelt's description offers us a guided tour of the spaces of the Society of Jesus in Coimbra (Colégio de Jesus, Colégio das Artes, Quinta de Vila Franca), allowing us to look at the buildings from the inside, giving us the opportunity to glimpse the nearly two hundred occupants in their daily activities. Inácio constantly compares the Coimbra college with those in Brabant, emphasizing the Spartan austerity in Coimbra. Some aspects provoke the author's astonishment, revealing also his admiration and respect when he realizes that this stopover in Coimbra was the best preparation for the difficulties that awaited him in his mission to China.

Partnership Assessment Report Erasmus 2014-2019

2022-01-07T14:32:20+00:00

The evaluation of the quality of Erasmus partnerships at the University of Coimbra emerged as a necessity to move towards the new cycle of the Erasmus program in a more sustained way, based on reliable and quantitative information, foreseeing an internationalization strategy based on proven quality factors. Hence, it was constituted as an action of the University of Coimbra’s strategic plan, also corresponding to one of the aims of the European Charter for Higher Education.

This report is the result of the use of the Equatic platform, a project financed by the European Commission and entitled “Assessing quality of partnerships amongst Higher Education Institutions”, coordinated by the EUF - European Universities Foundation.

The University of Coimbra integrates this project since December 2019. The main goal is to provide support to higher education institutions and facilitate the assessment of mobility partnerships based on a set of parameters called “Indicators”, such as: Performance of incoming students; Performance of outgoing students; Support and facilities; Academic quality; Rankings; Course catalog information; Exchange of mobility documents; Mobility rate; Involvement; Education cooperation. Thus, it is possible to evaluate different dimensions of international academic cooperation.

History, Business, Industrial Archaeology and Museology

2022-01-19T11:59:26+00:00

The present work is composed of a vast set of texts which, despite their theoretical and thematic heterogeneity, sustains its unity in the fact that all the works focus on historiographical regionalities of the Contemporary Era - the theory of history, business history, industrial archaeology, the didactics of history, cultural heritage and museology -, but also by seeking to reflect many of the main areas of research and dissemination of the historian and professor José M. Amado Mendes.
The fact that the book's coordinators and authors are disciples, colleagues and friends of Dr. José M. Amado Mendes and, naturally, also have a good knowledge of his vast work, end up reinforcing the meaning and objectives of this book. Through it, we intend to make a public recognition and a more than fair homage to the researcher, the historian, the teacher and the citizen that is José M. Amado Mendes. In its apparent diversity, this book ends up reflecting the admiration that the different authors, both national and international, show for the legacy of the Honoured, making clear to all of us the importance of the paths opened by the historian José M. Amado Mendes.

Contemporary History Themes

2022-01-11T10:02:06+00:00

The present book deals with very diverse historical themes and regionalities, most of which refer to Portuguese themes, all of which take part in the broad concept of Contemporary History, falling within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In its intrinsic polysemy, the concept of Contemporary History refers to the historical discourse that historians produce and disseminate about recent times both inside and outside the academic space. Nowadays, Contemporary History debates with other forms of social memory and disputes its versions of the past with diverse mediation devices between present and past. If "all history is contemporary", the one that deals with the past we live in or that is close to us struggles even more with the plurality of narratives and with the challenge of remembrance.

Witchcraft and Superstition in the Ancient Mediterranean

2021-12-10T11:01:36+00:00

This volume allowed us to gather Brazilian, Spanish, French, Greeks, Italians. and Portuguese specialists who search about magic and superstition in the Ancient Mediterranean. The theme circled around the relationship between Magic, religion and superstition in different ancient societies and with a sharp updated bibliography which leads us to reflect on the relationship between men and the gods and their different magical religious manifestations.

Dom Plástico

2021-11-25T15:00:36+00:00

Audio Livro da obra Cuontas de la dona Tierra
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-8074-86-7

O Jornalismo e a História

2021-11-22T16:56:51+00:00

Obra sobre Media, Liberalismo e História, que integra 12 ensaios de diversos investigadores portugueses. Pensada como homenagem ao percurso académico e cívico da Professora Isabel Nobre Vargues, a obra divide-se em três partes: i) Media e Liberalismos; ii) Histórias e perfis do Jornalismo; iii) Testemunhos.
Partindo de uma reflexão sobre o papel do primeiro Liberalismo português, os textos propõem uma diversidade de abordagens ao estudo da Imprensa, do Jornalismo, desde inícios do século XIX até aos dias de hoje. Conta com a participação de académicos das áreas da História e da Comunicação, dois campos a que a homenageada dedicou a sua investigação.

Research and Writing

2021-11-19T15:34:33+00:00

Research and Writing: Publish do not Perish is a collection of texts published in Portuguese, based on the problematization of a five-year experience of advanced extracurricular training in information literacy, writing and scientific publication (i.e., Publish do not Perish: Survive the Stampede). It is a questioning of the role of science in a context that appears to reproduce neoliberalism and the commodification of academia.
This work results from the collaboration of national and international authors who consider a diversity of theoretical and empirical fields that deal with that phenomenon. This book aims to identify and question the subsequent problems, trying to point out solutions to the growing malaise in the academic world.

Parallel Lives. Cimon and Lucullus

2021-11-18T16:06:26+00:00

Bound together by the guiding theme of philhellenic benefaction, Cimon and Lucullus are the statesmen compared by Plutarch in another volume of Parallel Lives. While Lucullus distinguishes himself as a benefactor of the biographer’s home town and the Greek world during the Mithridatic Wars, Cimon emerges as an emblematic figure of the freedom and unity of the Greeks in the fight against the Persians. However, both protagonists also show defects and weaknesses, both in terms of excesses and extravagances in private life and, despite great political and military successes, in their interaction with the multitude and with their peers. Thus, Plutarch invites his readers to reflect on the qualities and shortcomings displayed by his heroes in the historical context of fifth-century Athens and late Republican Rome as well as in light of the challenges posed by their own present.

Ilias Latina

2021-10-28T15:41:57+00:00

The Ilias Latina is a Latin resume of the Iliad, made by Bebius Italicus during Neronian times. In the first century B.C, the Trojan myth became gradually unknown through Iliad since Greek was learned only by the Roman aristocracy. During the Middle Ages, the Greek language was left aside in the Occident and the Iliad was lost until Italian scholars started to learn Greek with Byzantine travelers in the XIV century. The Troy War history had been more and more known via resumes, adaptations, and Latin versions of the Iliad. This is the context in which Ilias Latina can be inserted, and it is the only work of this group that survived well preserved over the centuries. The reduction of the Homeric Iliad to only 1070 verses provokes the loss of its original depth; however, the Ilias Latina has some interesting aspects. It is possible to see clearly how Bebius Italicus understood the Iliad through the passages and aspects he chooses to transmit, as well as what is possible to understand through his omissions and innovations towards the Homeric original poem.

Conimbriga Diripitur

2021-10-20T09:26:57+00:00

Conimbrica, in pace decepta, diripitur domus destruuntur cum aliqua parte murorum habitatorisque captis atque dispersis et regio desolatur et civitas.

Conimbriga, surprised during peace, is sacked, the houses and part of the walls razed to the ground, the inhabitants arrested and deported, the city and the region desolated.
Chronicle of Hidácio de Chaves

This volume presents the essence of the work of the last two decades in Conimbriga, developed according to careful methodologies of stratigraphic observation, namely of the upper levels of abandonment and rubbish dump.
A neglected period of the city's life (6th - 10th centuries) is thus presented in a new light.

Manual of Clinical Communication

2021-10-12T09:37:42+00:00

This manual makes brief considerations on caregiving and the concepts of understanding and explanation, in the clinical context. It also makes critical references to the moral dimension of medical education and the contemporary neoliberal dynamics of the university. It is presented a review about core clinical competencies in clinical communication. The manual emphasizes the sharing of information and the discussion of sensitive topics. It develops the topic of shared decision making, evaluates the ways of giving bad news and underlines the relevance of talking with families. There is a chapter on the communication with children and adolescents. The diversity in the clinical context is also a matter of interest, as well as the communication with people of different cultural backgrounds. The topic of the medical error deserves a full chapter. The Calgary-Cambridge model, the digital clinical communication and the medical humanities deserve also different chapters.

Experience, health, chronicity

2021-10-08T14:56:09+00:00

The book focuses on the experience of the health-disease process from a socio-anthropological perspective, exploring its potential as a concept and as an approach to social phenomena. It privileging conditions, sufferings and illnesses that last over time and characterize chronicity. As a concept, experience is taken as construction and meaning of something that happens, affects and marks the existence of an individual, group or community. As an approach, it deals with the assumptions and resources of scientific production to understand the experience as an object, composing a reflective look that encompasses patients, family members, caregivers, health professionals and researchers.

The book gathers contributions from a group of authors from different disciplinary areas and from different countries, framing a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the human experience of illness and chronicity.

Psychosomatic Healing and Political Healing in Plato

2021-10-11T11:15:58+00:00

Although Plato lived more than two thousand and three hundred years before our current date in the xxi century, his theories about the healing process are surprising for the depth and timeliness with which they are sustained, intuitive and reveal certain mysteries even to our days. It is quite frequent to find mythical images associated to the themes and reflections undertaken by the philosopher. This dialogue between myth and philosophy is a more than didactic strategy, insofar as Plato searches for what, in the myths, is valid knowledge for his theories and what, in them, needs to be changed or replaced. With the theme of healing it is no different, he resorts to an impressively rich mythical almanac in order to naturalize the healing processes considered, as a rule, magical. To understand this nuance, it is necessary to verify how the enchanted mythical images have their elements altered and/or substituted by psychological elements. This is the key to understanding the process of psychosomatic and political healing in Plato that Luciano Coutinho puts in dialogue with philosophical and scientific actuality and with his reader.

The CU and the Transfer of Knowledge and Technology in the historical context

2021-10-11T13:42:13+00:00

As a structural pillar of an university of reference, innovation focuses on an efficient and effective action of knowledge and technology transfer to society. The University of Coimbra, as alma mater, is a proponent in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management. The culture of innovation and entrepreneurship is nurtured by a transversal vision to all areas, since innovation is not only creativity. Innovation management is a process of mapping opportunities that delivers results with a view to value creation. Despite the decisive role of leadership in transforming an institution's culture of innovation, however, the traditional organic structure of the UC, as a whole, is cyclically invited to participate in this challenge. This challenge incorporates a call for an approach to the interdisciplinary principle, given the urgent need to bring ethical, moral and ecological principles closer to the business fabric. Just as entrepreneurship can be worked for the benefit of Society, in innovation, the climate is collaborative, of trust and, above all, of freedom. To the Knowledges conducted by the pipeline of the Support Office for Knowledge Transfers (GATS), Division of Innovation and Knowledge Transfers (DITS) and, currently UC Business, are added the intangible, immeasurable and intangible practices and assets of the soft skills of project managers. Leveraging the entrepreneurial and innovative capacity of the UC community has been, is and will be the main stimulus to the enhancement of the University itself beyond the borders of the region. The affirmation of the UC as a pillar of an emerging economic sector, which helps to revitalise Coimbra and the country is the challenge that moves us, based on decades of experience and with potential that we know we will achieve.

Multidisciplinary Dialogues

2021-09-29T13:52:46+00:00

This work is a reflection of CEIS20’s strategy, which has in its core the mission of supporting young researchers in sharing, debating and disseminating their scientific production, both in its initial phase and in its final stages, thus contributing to the sharing of work methodologies or innovative data, taking as a starting point the work areas around which the Centre's scientific production has been carried out.
In this sense, young researchers are challenged to think about their projects, placing, as the title of this work suggests, their “research in perspective”. This edition, reflecting a thematic and disciplinary diversity so characteristic of CEIS20, which has been trying to cross areas and themes of investigation, presents itself in the form of multidisciplinary dialogues, because although each text is confined to a scientific area, in its together they complement each other by offering thematic reflections seen from different disciplinary angles.

Limits and Thresholds

2021-09-27T14:10:59+00:00

This work reflects the intersection of different perspectives on complex society, resulting from the intersection of different areas on the bases of the work of Ceis20.
Starting from the commemoration of 20 years of existence of the Centre, this work presents new contributions to areas that cross History, Arts, Health, Communication and Society, in an interdisciplinary view of how Science can be built.

Reinventing the Social

2021-09-22T11:19:12+00:00

Based on an inter-American studies perspective, the case studies composing this volume look into the definition of the social, its traditional configurations and more recent reconfigurations in the wider context of the Americas. It also focuses on past and present crisis and social struggles alongside with the answers, movements, narratives and discourses of resistance they brought about. By exploring new territories, the present volume aims at contributing to the creation of a new grammar and pedagogy of the social deriving from epistemological and practical perspectives on the Americas. This study is interdisciplinary at core, intersecting history, sociology, and criticism on literature, film and music.

Life of the Faculty of Humanities 2018-2019

2021-09-17T14:33:35+00:00

A partir do ano letivo de 2012/2013, toda a informação que integrava a secção “Vida da Faculdade”, da Revista Biblos passa a ter uma existência autónoma em formato digital. Por se considerar relevante preservar essa memória e por se entender que ela não deve integrar uma revista científica, cria-se esta publicação à parte, acessível ao público interno e externo, que passa a estar alojada na página web da Faculdade de Letras e nas plataformas da Imprensa da Universidade. Neste volume, reúnem-se informações relativas ao ano letivo de 2018/2019.

Life of the Faculty of Humanities 2019-2020

2021-09-13T14:45:41+00:00

Service Design

2021-08-24T09:42:12+00:00

This e-book brings together a collection of hands-on Service Design-related activities. This collection was assembled with a view to take students across the process of designing a service, from the early stage of exploratory research to the service blueprint phase. Besides providing step-by-step instructions to each activity, the e-book introduces students to a set of digital templates specifically created to support each of the activities described in the e-book.

Intangible management in the Iberoamerican space

2021-09-08T14:39:41+00:00

If today we can speak about a consumer ethics, as the result of the growing awareness of citizens, this means that the opinions who consumers take are no longer just based on the prices of goods or services and their respective quality (s), but in the attention that is given to the type of company that is behind the product or service that is acquired (Echeverría-Ríos, 2018). In this perspective, the ethics of consumption is closely linked to the ethics of business, which lends the responsibility to think the strategic action of the respective organization in the plan of sustainable development to the operational concept of Social Responsibility. Thus, the relevance of intangible values in organization´s action stands up. This book will discuss those issues — intangible management and responsible and sustained brands in the reputation economy — in the Iberoamerican space, through reflections and scientific research, as well as the presentation of case studies by researchers from 18 universities in six countries.

Interventions and Mediation with the Elderly

2021-10-20T09:47:53+00:00

The book "Interventions and Mediations with the Elderly" contains a set of approaches, strategies and reflections that constitute an alternative to the traditional view on ageing, on the social policies and measures that insist on keeping up with a population that is wrongly considered a homogeneous population.
It is a contribution to a new reading and understanding of the changes that have taken place in the last five years in Portugal and points to new directions for the emergence of other political measures and other forms of action in the face of a growing, diversified population with a strength of collective participation that must be faced, stimulated and even, even, taken advantage of in favour of cohesion and social growth.
This book is addressed not only to Academia, but also to all professionals and institutions, as well as to all those who want to know the new reality(s) of ageing in Portugal.

1876-1952: Lourenço Chaves de Almeida

2021-09-08T16:31:35+00:00

Lourenço Chaves de Almeida (1876-1952) was one of the most famous wrought-iron artists, having left excellent works in Coimbra, "city of the bars", and in several other places. Born in Lamego and descendant of craftsmen, he would settle in Coimbra while fulfilling his military service. He was a career military officer (artisan sergeant) and praised for the pride with which he carried out his duties, and was mobilised to join the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in 1917-1918. Even during the campaign in France, he never disconnected himself from the art of ironwork, so he produced there - using metal from the ammunition - pieces that, due to the artistic sensibility of their author, surprised superiors and colleagues. He was esteemed and had contact with part of the intellectual and political elite of his time, from, for example, António Augusto Gonçalves, Quim Martins, Afonso Lopes Vieira and Veva de Lima, to Belisário Pimenta, Bissaia Barreto and Marshal Gomes da Costa. Among his numerous works, the Lampadário/Chama da Pátria (Batalha Monastery), the Lectus Pompeiano (Veva de Lima), the Relicário (Afonso Lopes Vieira) and the chandelier of the City Hall of Coimbra stand out. In exhibitions of his work (Coimbra, Lisbon and other cities), he always obtained great success, as the praises published in the press prove. It is also worth mentioning his taste for research and writing. In fact, besides other published studies (about João de Ruão and the biography of the Saint Heitorzinho do Loureiro), it was the one he dedicated to the Tombs of Alcobaça, of D. Pedro and D. Inês, which had the greatest repercussion. There he defended a thesis that was not only original, but also contrary to what was then recommended by the renowned specialists. After detailed study, he came to the conclusion that, contrary to what was accepted, that remarkable sculptural work was not the work of foreigners, but of artists from the Coimbra school. He also had a profound taste for history and testimonies. He collected and preserved newspaper clippings and photographs of his work and, above all, he wrote the Memoirs of a Blacksmith, thanks to his meticulous and rigorous work. Thus, he was not a simple blacksmith or even an ordinary wrought-iron artist, but a man of the elite, with an appreciable culture and a keen sensitivity to understanding society and the world.

Breathing books

2021-07-22T10:07:31+00:00

Through texts by Portuguese, Brazilian and Angolan authors, from the 19th century to the present day, in this book I attempt to show that ecologically motivated thinking can provide access to pertinent aspects of certain books, unfolding on wider surfaces the attention we pay to them. To a large extent, these forays into the field of ecocriticism treat it not as a standpoint particularly suited to examining the environmental imaginary conveyed by literature, but as a particularly useful vocabulary for relating literary imagination to ecological thinking. In a very practical sense, I seek here to follow a timely piece of advice from the indigenous leader Ailton Krenak - "When you feel that the sky is getting too low, just push it away and breathe" - by drawing some consequences from the idea that a book that breathes is a book that expands upon the space that holds it.

Past, Present and Future of Human Rights

2020-11-06T13:20:23+00:00

There is a conjectural valour in the Human Rights study. First it concerns its range and second it concerns its interdisciplinary nature has a theme subject. So being the Human Rights theme a persistent one, it has the capacity to found, or surge for, in its approaches, emergent themes, such as the ones the authors study and present in this book: migrations, bioethics, biotechnology, sports, medical and biomedical technology, heath and security, that come to life in a contextual proposed revision of the Past Present and Future of Human Rights.

To see farther

2020-11-06T14:21:17+00:00

Galileo set a course by instituting a way of designing and practicing scientific research that continues to this day, metaphorically laying the foundation stone of a formidable building. Emancipation through knowledge is part of the liberating influence of science as one of the greatest competing forces for human freedom. These two essays propose a state of play on some issues in the development of modern science

Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

2021-07-19T09:52:29+00:00

The initial ‘idea’ for the book emerged during the seminar Sharing of Innovative Pedagogical Practices that occurred at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2018. Like all ‘good ideas’, this one originated in a conversation between colleagues from the University of Coimbra and the University of West London in the United Kingdom. The ‘idea’ of this book was to move away from sharing experiences related to teaching and learning in higher education in just one or two countries, but instead to organise a more European view about the policy, research and teaching practices that are shaping the way our students learn, academics teach and do research. We have a total of 16 chapters from academics in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and the Czech Republic.
The book is organised in four interrelated themes: (1) policy and quality; (2) professionalisation of teaching and academic development; (3) research and teaching nexus; and (4) pedagogy and practice.
Enjoy reading the book!

Global Utopia of the Holy Spirit

2022-10-28T14:57:29+00:00

This three-volume work offers, for the first time, an encyclopaedic knowledge on the origin, development, and historical and contemporary expressions of movements, traditions, figures and institutions that were influenced by the idea of an age of concord, fraternity and justice on Earth, under the influence of the Holy Spirit. The kaleidoscopic approach of this unique edition was prepared by highly qualified specialists and researchers from different subject areas. It provides an updated critical knowledge about the roots and theological-philosophical expressions of the diversity of popular cults to the Holy Spirit, as well as about the age-old paths of its social, political and artistic manifestations, which testify to the creative fruitfulness of an ancient utopian thought with an astonishing global projection. This edition offers, to a large extent, a conceptual and cultural mapping of the most unexpected utopian projections of the global devotion to the Holy Spirit, promoted by different movements, forms and intercultural overlays, recreated and transformed in different cultural spaces of the five continents. We are facing a large-scale scientific enterprise that aims to be a reference legacy for Paracletian studies.

Global Utopia of the Holy Spirit

2022-11-10T14:33:04+00:00

Global Utopia of the Holy Spirit

2022-10-28T11:08:24+00:00

Ecosystem services and law

2021-06-25T09:04:44+00:00

Ecosystem services, as benefits which people derive from ecosystems, are critical to human survival and well-being. However, they are not considered in decisions regarding the conservation or degradation of ecosystems, which is why they are in decline. It is up to the law to have an effective response to make ecosystem services visible to society, institutions and the economy. Some initiatives have already been implemented, but many are listed only in the letter of the law ("law in the books"). In this context, this paper aims at understanding what ecosystem services are, how they emerged as a new rationality in the environmental sciences and economics as well as the way in which the law is receiving this new concept. The first objective of this book is to verify how the Law can contribute to guarantee the preservation and the fair and equitable access to these services. Also, in order to systematize and operationalize the norms, institutes, instruments and policies aimed at protecting and valuing ecosystem services, a general legal theory of ecosystem services is proposed. Finally, this book presents a typology of institutes, instruments and policies aimed at the protection and promotion of ecosystem services.

Sertões and other worlds

2021-05-27T10:33:03+00:00

Thinking about the “sertões”, from a multi-mode point of view and linked to other experiences in terms of space, temporality and domains is the proposal that guides the chapters of this book. Far from an isolationist, exotic or inferior perspective in relation to the various producing and enunciating fields of knowledge, these hinterlands and other worlds assert themselves as a clear proposal for displacement of local / regional / global relations. These connections are present in the experiences of different intellectuals, memorialists, agents, institutions and anonymous masses in the face of social, political, cultural, environmental, scientific and legal dilemmas, especially Brazilian, and, in some cases, correlated to the Portuguese universe.

Testimony, Attestation and Conflict

2020-10-27T11:27:35+00:00

This work aims to think the unity of P. Ricœur’s thought and finds it in the most representative concepts of his thought that allow to approach the idea of person. Witness, attestation of self and conflict are the basic minimum categories that, in Ricœur, allow us to understand the subject both capable and vulnerable, who is no longer the traditional cogito nor the humiliated subject of Nietszche, but the only being who makes himself an agent and sufferer.

A Grave is a Hole Hard to Fill

2021-05-13T14:55:19+00:00

“… e se houver uma questão subterrânea, subjacente, raiz comum a estas sete peças de Jorge Palinhos, talvez seja: por que motivo uma campa é um buraco tão difícil de tapar – se as vozes são evanescentes, solitárias, tão frágeis e desprotegidas?” (in Posfácio, Pedro Eiras)

Geography, Tourism and Territory

2021-04-14T13:15:08+00:00

It is a book of homage to a geographer of high academic, scientific and pedagogical merit, who recently reached the time of her retirement at the University of Coimbra, where she worked for over forty years. His areas of scientific interest range from Human Geography (Population Geography; Cultural Geography and, in particular, Literary Geography; Spatial Planning and Local Development) to the Studies on Tourism.
For this reason, in this tribute book, which brings together 28 works by 40 authors, these themes are treated, giving a recent and updated overview of the studies of Human Geography and Tourism, which are very useful for researchers, teachers and students in these scientific areas.

Studies on the Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion

2021-09-29T09:50:03+00:00

While fighting, trading, evangelizing, sailing, traveling or exercising diplomacy, the Portuguese of the 16th century could and would not refrain from “talking” (communicating) with the “others”. They observed their figures and culture, and tried to learn as much as they could about them (by watching, listening or reading). Mere cultural curiosity reflecting the Renaissance spirit of the time? Certainly so. Although the Portuguese had also shown a pre-scientific interest and developed a “practical humanism” that was expressed in remarkable techniques and interesting skills. And there was also a “duty” demanded by the interests of the Crown/State, the Church, and the Nation - the three pillars that would later form the Modern Empire.

Table of the Senses & Senses of the Table

2020-10-26T12:02:03+00:00

In the broadest sense of the word, “table” refers to universes where products, people and ideas interact with each other. A place for sustenance, but also of delight, learning, worship, and sociability, each “table” depicts mindsets and serves as a metaphor for values enabling the transformation of those who interact and participate in it. The “table” is, therefore, a space for the senses, both physiological and intellectual. Out of the synesthetic experience brought by food, as well as by its surrounding environments, comes the Table of the Senses, inseparable of the multiple cultural, political, religious, aesthetic, social and economic meanings around it. These Senses of the Table are captured and transmitted through different ways (written, oral, pictorial, or material).

The present work is organized in two volumes, each containing three parts and a total of 37 chapters. The 21 chapters that are part of volume II are structured around three main themes. The role of religious or secular (military) codes of values in the food dynamics are discussed in Part I (Sacred tables and Profane tables). The “table” as a space and instrument of social, political, economic, and cultural power(s) is the theme addressed in Part II (Tables of power and Power of the table). The reflection on the “table” as an expression of collective cultural identity and a vehicle for affirming received or bequeathed food knowledge/flavours is done in Part III (Identity and food heritage).

Rhetoric and Poetics

2020-11-06T13:38:28+00:00

The formalized and effective use of logos is the main point of intersection of two ancient arts that, like so many others, originated in Ancient Greece - Poetics and Rhetoric. This volume brings together a set of articles on the relationship between these two arts, authored by specialists from different areas of knowledge: Classical Studies, Philosophy and Portuguese Literature. The articles cover a wide span of time, from antiquity to the XXI^stCentury, and address theoretical questions, such as those related to certain concepts - climax, sublime, or even hermeneutics, rhetoric and poetics -; and other practical ones, which consist of the analysis of literary texts in the light of some aspects of rhetorical theorization.

Head and Neck Cancer

2021-01-25T15:27:33+00:00

The designation "head and neck cancer" (HNC) includes tumors that are located in different anatomical regions such as the oral cavity, the oropharynx and the pharynx, as well as other locations such as the lip, nasopharynx, hypopharynx and larynx.
In this book, different concepts are addressed within the scope of HNC with particular emphasis on tumors of the oral cavity. An overview is done regarding the epidemiology, molecular and cellular mechanisms as well as the relevant points to be taken into account for diagnosis and therapy. Aspects for promoting the quality of life of patients are also discussed, including the role of speech therapy, physical activity, nutrition and management of patients with ostomy, the psychosocial aspects of the patient were also taken into account as well as the importance of psychosocial rehabilitation for treatment optimization. Finally, in addition to laying emphasis on population screening, the perspective of the general and family physician and the dentist for the prevention and early detection of these neoplasms is addressed.

D. Francisco de Azevedo and Ataíde

2020-11-06T14:15:45+00:00

Transcription and study of an unpublished manuscript, written at the end of the 17th century, by D. Inácio de Ataíde, professor at the University of Coimbra and holy preacher, with the biography of a military man from the War of the Restoration, D. Francisco de Azevedo and Ataíde, fieldmaster general and governor of the arms of Entre-Douro-e-Minho, with the account of numerous episodes that occurred in this province and in the province of Alentejo

The fabrication of Alexander the Great

2021-03-11T17:33:09+00:00

This book aims at criticizing the many literary presentations that praise Alexander the Great’s political skills and military genius, with emphasis on the ancient accounts of the events between 336 and 331 A.E.C. and modern biographies written in English between the 1970s and the 2000s. Ancient historians and biographers (Diodorus Siculus, Curtius Rufus, Plutarch, Arrian and, occasionally, the epitome of Pompeius Trogus by Justin), who sometimes appear to be objective, other times work through a hyperbolic discourse, were studied. They present a similar view on Alexander and at the same time contradictory accounts on the narrated events. It is hoped, therefore, that this book will further the debate on the dynamics of presenting the deeds of the Macedonian who is considered to be one of the great leaders of ancient times.

Culture and Society in Europe after 1945

2021-04-19T09:20:55+00:00

Culture and intellectual debate reflect political and social developments; they are a key to changing perceptions of historical time, to the experience of continuities and discontinuities. It is thus understandable that a cultural history of European society after 1945 must take a broad, interdisciplinary approach.

An analysis of cultural developments in post-1945 Europe makes it possible to understand social, economic conflicts and political attitudes. In the thematic scope, "Culture and Society in Europe after 1945", this work gathers texts of theoretical, empirical and comparative nature, which allow a reflection and analysis, among others, on the following themes: Democratic and anti-democratic political discourses; European culture and cultural diversity; the impact of the Second War in Brazil - social, economic and cultural repercussions; historiographical analysis on strategy, security, cultural diplomacy in the countries of "Southern Europe" and the position of the United States; the political and cultural centrality of Art in a multiple and controversial context; the fundamental role of culture in the institutional construction of Europe.

Educational politics and dynamics

2020-11-06T14:33:54+00:00

Conceived in a commemorative logic of CEIS20's two decades of life, this book brings together a selection of twelve chapters that can be understood as covering some important dimensions of the epistemological field of Educational Sciences. A first group of works challenges us to solve the whole problem that begins in the axiological organization that must involve educational practices, goes through some questions that are placed on organizational decisions and dare to approach the relationship between knowledge and the processes that allow its acquisition and use. A second group of texts focuses, in a more particular way, on the need for a permanent rethinking of the problems that the relationship between political decisions and educational practices (resulting from these decisions and/or imposed by personal and social dynamics) pose.

Callimachean Poetics and its Influence on Epigrammatic Poetry

2021-04-29T10:47:58+00:00

This book collects texts presented at the international event Quinta Semana de Estudos sobre o Período Helenístico: a Poética Calimaquiana e sua Influência na Poesia Epigramática, held at the Faculdade de Filosofia Letras e Ciências Humanas and at the Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia of the Universidade de São Paulo, between September 20 and 23, 2017. This is a collection of papers that discuss aspects of the poetic program defended in Callimachus's surviving poems and the influence they had on the creation of literary epigrams from the 3rd century BC. The book, therefore , presents not only reflections on the exposition of the metapoetic discussion undertaken by Calimachus in order to defend a style of composition, but also explores the reception of this debate in the generations of subsequent poets, including, among others, Mnasalcas, Antipater of Sidon, Meleager, Martial, Horace, and Gregory of Nazianzus.

Walking & Cycling. A New Geography of Tourism

2021-02-19T11:59:15+00:00

Pedestrian and outdoor cycling activities have achieved an important growth in recent years, through several infrastructure configurations with a special vocation for the promotion of pedestrianism and the use of the bicycle in daily life, leisure and tourism.

The new products of nature tourism, such as those linked to pedestrian and cycling itineraries, not only assume greater expression in rural and mountainous territories, but are fundamental to respond to the demands and motivations linked to increasingly specialized activities, personalized and facilitating unique and intense experiences.

The increasing visibility of this theme at the international level and the scant interest it has deserved so far within the academic community and in the national publishing sphere justify the publication of this book, supported by a review of scientific literature and field research, with integration of scales, to offer readers a geographical perspective centered on two of the most relevant segments of postmodern tourism.

History of Science in Science Teaching. Revisiting Approaches, Innovating Knowledge

2021-04-16T11:38:06+00:00

The history of science is referred by several authors as fundamental to the understanding of how science works, useful for the learning processes, and relevant to the promotion of the humanization of science through biographies. Starting from these premises, themes such as biographies of scientists, historical objects, museum collections, historical works and theories, school and dissemination programs, in this work are involved in a dialogue with formal and informal teaching, as well as non-formal teaching, through historical objects and museum collections, historical works, and new educational approaches.

The numismatic collection of Machado de Castro National Museum

2021-03-31T14:09:29+00:00

This book covers the Numismatics collection of the Machado de Castro National Museum (MNMC) and other monetary items, consisting of 1286 specimens, mostly recovered in this historic place in the city of Coimbra. It also includes pieces collected in other parts of the city or in occasional interventions carried out in other national monuments, and the result of donations and acquisitions.

The monograph is composed of five main areas chronologically organised: Roman coins; medieval coins; Portuguese coins; foreign coins and monetary objects.

With a preface by Prof. Jorge de Alarcão, the book is profusely illustrated and enriched by several interpretative texts that better explore and frame the individual listing presented in catalogue format.

História Augusta. Vol. II

2020-10-23T15:09:41+00:00

This second volume includes the Lives of Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus, Pescenius Niger, Clodius Albinus, Caracala, Geta, Macrinus, Didadumnus and Heliogabalus. Thus, taking into account Pertinax's accession to the imperial throne and Heliogabalus' death, the volume covers the period of Rome's history from 192 to 222 AD. If we take into account the birth of Pertinax (A.D. 122), the time covered by this set of lives is therefore about a century. The period covered by the lives gathered here coincides with that of the establishment of the Severan dinasty, which followed that of the Antonines, emperors that marked at various levels the Roman imperial apogee. Of all the biographies gathered in this volume, that of Heliogabalus should be, by the wealth of descriptions, the one that best corresponds to a certain contemporary - though not necessarily factual - imaginary of Ancient Rome: a civilisation marked by excess, exoticism, cruelty and perversion.

Argonautica. Books I and II. Literary Study, Translation and Notes

2021-03-25T14:55:58+00:00

This translation fills a serious lack in the literary panorama and has the particularity of allowing the reader to identify lines of reading. In fact, the poet builds with Argonautica’s lemmas, almost as many as those of Odyssey, meanings that easily go unnoticed by the current reader, secluded from the original by the linguistic barrier.
This translation is the first one done with the concern of keeping the lemmas recognizable. We want the contemporary reader to identify, as the Alexandrian reader, the parallels with other episodes within the poem, the subtle evocations of characters and moments.
In the notes we clarify the most difficult passages and we also identify some of the work done with the sources, especially the Homeric.
In the introduction we integrate the poet in his time and we analyse the invocation and the ecphrasis of Jason’s mantle. All the places on the outward journey also deserve comment, since from them there are several paths leading to the story, to Alexandrian literary aesthetics and to the History itself.

Table of the Senses & Senses of the Table

2020-10-23T15:31:14+00:00

In its broadest sense, "table" refers to universes where products, people and ideas interact. A space for survival, but also for pleasure, education, worship and sociability, every "table" portrays mentalities, serves as a metaphor for values, and opens space for the transformation of those who interact and participate at it. The "table" thus becomes a space for both physiological and intellectual "senses". The "Table of Senses" is born from the synesthetic experience provided by food and the environments surrounding it. The numerous meanings of a cultural, political, religious, aesthetic, ethical, social and economic nature that we recognise inseparable from the table. These "Senses of the Table" are captured and communicated in various forms of discourse (written, oral, pictorial or material).

The present work is organised in two volumes, containing six parts and a total of 37 chapters. The 16 chapters that are part of volume I are structured around three main themes. The sensory perception of food and environments is discussed in Part I (Senses at the Table). The harmonious or conflictual relationship between food and health is discussed in Part II (Therapeutic Tables, Healthy Tables and Unhealthy Tables). The gustatory, biological or economic constraints behind food serve as a pillar for the studies in Part III (Delicacious tables, survival tables and economic tables).

Plutarch. Parallel Lives: Aristides-Cato the Censor

2020-10-23T14:32:48+00:00

In different contexts, Aristides and Cato the Censor (or Cato the Elder) are paradigms of historical figures who dedicated themselves to the public cause. Facing obstacles of different nature, they knew, despite the efforts of the opponents to their political strategy, how to maintain their values. Through arete and dynamis they managed to distinguish themselves in the politeia and reach the doxa. However, as it is often inherent in political activity, this contributed to the ostracism of Aristides and also Cato the Censor also managed to arouse enmity in various sectors of Roman society. Plutarch, by selecting a set of actions, is able to highlight an aspect that is transversal in the history of political thought: the opposition between the public and the private sphere. Aristides, more than Cato the Censor, manages to value the collective sense of his political action at the expense of individual well-being. What for some may be lack of ambition, for Aristides is respect for justice and the collective. As for Cato the Censor, he distinguished himself by the successfully managing the private interests, which can be, at the same time, a sign of meanness or greatness of spirit. In the exercise of their political functions, they both sought to maintain an exemplary moral conduct, albeit conditioned by different personal and also social circumstances.

The Ideal Prince in the 16th Century and the work of Jerónimo Osório - 2nd edition

2021-02-25T11:58:07+00:00

This work deals with the formation and integral education of the man invested in power or landlord, in the Renaissance, from its Classical sources. The influence of the standards of modern education initiated in Portugal with the Court of Avis, will gain importance in Portugal with D. João II, D. Manuel and D. João III. As a reference point for Humanistic Culture and Political Pedagogy in Portugal, the work of Jerónimo Osório, De regis institutione et disciplina, "Sobre a formação e educação do Rei", dedicated to D. Sebastião, in 1572, as well as Os Lusíadas de Camões, both published with the permission of the same inquisitorial censor, Bartolomeu Ferreira, is imposed. These works, one in neo-Latin and the other in Portuguese, which deal with themes in many coinciding aspects, are an inescapable reference of the Portugal of Five Hundred, a reflection of its culture and reality. The famous Bishop of Silves, Jerónimo Osório, the "Portuguese Cicero", author of the most important treatise on education in Portugal, for his culture, his international projection and his formative lesson on the integral man, is undoubtedly worthy of the prominence given to him in this work.

Greek Anthology. Sympothic and Satyrical Epigrams

2020-11-06T12:39:44+00:00

The 442 epigrams contained in book XI of the Greek Anthology are the best sample of the genre of Greek satirical epigram, from Classical to the Byzantine era. Nonetheless, the anonymous scribe of the Palatinus made an internal division between sympotic (sympotika, num. 1-64) and satirical (skoptika, num. 65-442) epigrams. Full of meaning are his words on these components: “A great use has forever been done of satirical epigrams, since men is so fond on laughing on others and listening them laughing on their neighbors, something I believe that always happened between the Ancients, as the following epigrams demonstrate.”

Correspondence - Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos e Ricardo Jorge

2021-01-29T12:30:39+00:00

The present Michaëlian correspondence is an example of the so-called "erudite correspondence", which with the creation and development of postal mail became especially frequent among scientists of the various branches of knowledge in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the twentieth century. In the presente instance we are dealing with an epistolary exchange within the history of Portuguese literature, which starting from a study on the life and work of the writer Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, opens new perspectives on the seventeenth-century literary period in the Iberian Peninsula, and also brings new data on the human, family, cultural and scientific profile of the two correspondents and their respective socio-political, cultural and literary Portuguese context in the first decades of the twentieth century. The epistolary collected here between a philologist and a medical epidemiologist, both celebrities nationally and internationally, is also remarkable for its intercultural character, proving to be a precious testimony of the affinities between the Humanities and the so-called exact Sciences.

Protected areas and land management

2021-02-01T17:02:45+00:00

The protection, conservation and enhancement of natural, cultural and landscape heritage is one of the most important designs in the context of international, national, regional and local strategies and initiatives for sustainable management and development territories and populations.
The protected areas, as a nuclear axis of increasing visibility of this theme, reveal a huge diversity of landscapes and management systems, reflect a wide variety of classification statutes and are associated with a significant set of values and functions, with the purpose of reconciling those interests.
Based on a literature review of the specialty, the results of an investigation applied to the Serra da Lousã are presented, with the objective of substantiating a classification proposal and inducing a new model of intermunicipal matrix management for this landscape unit of the Central Cordilheira that is increasingly a national and international reference with innovative contributions to the affirmation of the Central region and Portugal in the national and international strategic positioning in the tourism sector.

Human Rights: new approaches, old challenges

2021-03-17T12:32:34+00:00

The enlightening words of the former Austrian Foreign Minister, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, on May 9, 2003, at the 5th Ministerial Meeting of the Human Security Network, "Human Rights Education, through its dimensions concerning the transfer of knowledge, the development of skills and the transformation of mentalities, raises awareness of our common ground for the protection of human dignity and security."

Indeed, in the second half of the 21st century, the promotion and protection of human rights will have to be an absolute priority for civil society, for NGOs, for governments and an Ethical and Deontological imperative for Academia.

Human Rights Education will have to be a central part of our commitment in the different areas of knowledge, not only in terms of research, but also in terms of promoting them, of attitude and of contribution to change behaviors in a world increasingly characterized by the emergence of nationalism, populism and the clear violation of human rights by both States and the international community.

Coimbra Aristotelian Jesuit Course. Tomus III: De Caelo – Part I

2021-02-26T12:26:13+00:00

A volume dedicated to Aristotle's 'De Caelo', known as Coimbra Jesuit Commentaries on Aristotles, published in Lisbon 1593, by Manuel de Góis (1543-1597), commenting and discussion subject matters such as: the being in movement, the structure and composition of the Universe, the five simple bodies, the four elements of the so-called sublunar world, their seat and type of local movement.

Ibero-American World

2021-01-25T11:39:53+00:00

The book Ibero-America between Tradition and Modernity gathers a set of texts that were, initially, presented in the XIII Colloquium Tradition and Modernity that was celebrated between the 12th and 14th November 2018 in Coimbra, integrating the set of academic achievements carried out in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century of the University of Coimbra - CEIS20.
This work reflects throughout the texts that compose it, part of the themes discussed at the 2018 Colloquium. In this particular, the theme of the identity of Ibero-America becomes a constant and is therefore presented in a significant part of the articles that make up the work.

Citizen Utopia

2021-01-25T14:37:41+00:00

Citizen Utopia. This is the theme proposed for this issue of the Euro-Atlantic collection: a space for dialogue, which is the result of an interesting and lively debate that addresses, in an inter and multi-jurisdictional way and in a wide spectrum, the question of some utopian possibilities in Europe and in the contemporary world. (...) A few months after the collective reflection session that gave rise to this work, the global pandemic of Covid-19 has placed the world under a mantle of uncertainty that demonstrates, to exhaustion, that utopias are increasingly necessary and that only through joint and multidisciplinary thinking can we move towards a more just and sustainable future. The challenges posed by the pandemic, and its devastating consequences, above all social and economic, require an effort to reinvent the world. The obligation of academics is to contribute, with reflections and proposals commensurate with the challenges, so that the post-Covid-19 world can be closer to the utopias imagined. Some of them are compiled in this book.

The Inaugural Speech of Royal College of Nobles (1766)

2021-01-18T11:42:16+00:00

The Italian Michaelis Antonii Cierae utters the Inaugural Speech of Royal College of Nobles, in 14^thApril of 1766. This institution was promoted by the minister Sebastião Carvalho e Mello, under the patronage of King D. José I. His discourse, written in Latin and structured in twelve chapters, presents several reflections in favor of Arts and Humanities, rethinking Political Philosophy, in a sensible balance between criticism and praise. The main goal is to emphazise the important role of this privileged class and the indispensable encyclopedic education. This is the only way to find the knowledge and skills to develop the society and to honor the responsabilities of Nobles. The eloquence of orator, the argumentative structure, having the ciceronian style as a reference, prove that both at the level of res and verba, this Discourse has a significant relevance for the study of History of Pedagogy, in XVIII, in Portugal.

Moved Body

2021-01-13T12:37:21+00:00

In this volume, some of the leading schoolars of Maine de Biran’s philosophy try to demonstrate in a renewed way what we could call Maine de Biran’s "out of datedness". This is what they understand by it: in Maine de Biran’s philosophy there are things about the human way of being that become known for the first time; some of those discoveries were not fully understood at in that moment, and so perhaps Biran's apparent outdatedness is, in fact, in the backlight of the way in which he came to nurture philosophical contemporaneity, the way of an original thought to repeatedly rehearse his return in times more favourable to the recognition of the reach and vigour of an original phyilosophy.

Goa´s Defensive Heritage 1510-1660

2021-02-02T12:36:30+00:00

Identified the importance of Goa within the politico-military context of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the need to equip the newly created State of India with a fortified city with a significant hinterland, Afonso de Albuquerque decided to conquer it in 1510. Twenty years later, Goa was promoted to the status of capital, consolidating a strategy of territorial occupation based on a defensive system in concentric and gradual growth. Goa would become the main statement of Portuguese Crown in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century. It is proposed a look at the old defensive system, which today is the legacy of a constructed territory, and the identity of a community, comprising an integrated ensemble of assets with heritage value. The objective is, therefore, to determine the specific nature of Goa within the context of South Asia, with drawing as a discourse and the key research tool.

Zdravá játra vždy splní své povinnosti!

2021-03-12T11:08:01+00:00

Víte, co jsou vaše játra?
Znáte t?ch mnoho d?ležity?ch v?cí, které pro nás játra d?lají, jak nás udržují zdravé a naživu?
V?d?li jste, že naše stravovací návyky mohou ovlivnit zdraví našich jater?
Nebo že sedavy? životní styl jim m?že ublížit?
Pravd?podobn? o tom nevíte, ale každy? ?tvrty? ?lov?k na sv?t? má nealkoholické onemocn?ní jater (NAFLD), které m?že z?stat bez povšimnutí celé roky a vést k vážnému poškození jater, cirhóze a dokonce i rakovin? jater.
Jste jeden z t?chto lidí?
Nadm?rné hromad?ní tuku v játrech je zp?sobeno nezdravou stravou a sedavy?m životním stylem.
Jste ohrožen?
I když nadváha není podmínkou, lidé, kte?í jsou obézní a lidé s diabetem 2. typu mají vyšší riziko vzniku NAFLD.
Jak to tedy m?žeme napravit?
Poznejte lépe svá játra pomocí tohoto komiksu a zjist?te, jak lé?it a p?edcházet této form? onemocn?ní jater!
Myslete na svá játra až budete p?íšt? jíst, a nezapome?te z?stat aktivní, aby játra z?stala zdravá a vy byli v pohod?.
Pamatujte, že zdravá játra vždy splní své povinnosti!

Un Fegato Sano Ti Porta Lontano!

2021-03-09T17:18:24+00:00

Sai cos’è il fegato?
Sai quali sono le cose importanti che fa per mantenerti sano ed in vita?
Lo sapevi che le nostre abitudini alimentari possono influenzare il tuo benessere e il nostro fegato? E che uno stile di vita sedentario può invece danneggiarlo?
Probabilmente non ne sei a conoscenza, ma una persona su quattro è affetta da steatosi epatica non alcolica, spesso semplicemente chiamata “fegato grasso” (in inglese NAFLD- Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease), che può passare inosservata anche per anni finendo per causare gravi danni al fegato, tra cui cirrosi e perfino cancro.
Sai che potresti essere tu una di queste persone?
L’eccessivo accumulo di grasso nel fegato è causato da diete scorrette e stili di vita sedentari.
Sei anche tu a rischio?
Anche se puoi soffrirne senza essere in sovrappeso, le persone obese e quelle con diabete mellito di tipo 2 possiedono un rischio maggiore di sviluppare questa patologia.
Dunque, cosa possiamo fare?
Puoi cominciare conoscendo meglio il tuo fegato attraverso questo fumetto e capire come curare e prevenire questa malattia.
Pensa al tuo fegato la prossima volta che mangi, e non dimenticarti di condurre uno stile di vita attivo per il tuo bene e per il bene del tuo fegato.
Ricorda: un fegato sano ti porta lontano!

Jurisprudencialism and Neighbouring Idioms

2021-01-14T15:04:58+00:00

Like all major Works, António Castanheira Neves’s legal philosophy and theory strikes us with the morning splendor of a white light, capable of stimulating an infinite dynamic of reception and establishing a luminous (but no less demanding) dialogue with other voices and other discourses (and with the refraction-decomposition prisms which these discourses generate). This direct reference to a well-known dictum by Arvo Pärt (invoking a white light that contains all colors) makes special sense when we are confronted with the present monograph and with the spectrum of twenty authors (on both sides of the Atlantic) that gives it life. The essays now assembled actually cover the capital dimensions of Castanheira Neves’ Work (and his jurisprudentialist conception), whilst however assuming unmistakably diverse perspectives and frequenting different frontiers (as well as discussing diverse projections in reality and its law in action): this benefits the ensemble with the sense and authenticity (but also productivity) of a responsible conversation.

¡Un Hígado Equilibrado Es Medio Camino Andado!

2021-03-05T16:18:44+00:00

¿Sabes qué es el hígado?
¿O la multitud de cosas importantes que hace por nosotros, manteniéndonos vivos y sanos?
¿Eres consciente de que nuestros hábitos alimenticios afectan al bienestar del hígado?
¿O que un estilo de vida sedentaria lo puede perjudicar?
Probablemente no lo sepas, pero una de cada cuatro personas en el mundo tiene Hígado Graso No-Alcohólico (HGNA, o NAFLD en inglés), una enfermedad que puede pasar desapercibida durante años y acabar provocando graves daños hepáticos, incluyendo cirrosis y cáncer de hígado.
¿Eres tú una de esas personas?
La acumulación de grasa en el hígado está causada por estilos de vida sedentarios y dietas poco saludables.
¿Estás en riesgo?
Aunque puedes sufrirlo sin tener sobrepeso, la personas con obesidad o diabetes tipo 2 presentan mayor riesgo de desarrollar HGNA.
¿Y bien, cómo podemos solucionar esto?
¡Anímate a conocer mejor a tu hígado con este cómic y descubre cómo tratar y prevenir esta enfermedad hepática!
Piensa en tu hígado la próxima vez que comas y no te olvides de mantenerte activo para su salud y tu bienestar.
¡Recuerda! Un hígado equilibrado es medio camino andado.

La prochaine fois, pensez à ton foie!

2021-03-11T15:01:42+00:00

Sais-tu ce que c’est que le foie?
Ou la multitude d’autres choses importantes qu’il fait pour nous, en nous maintenant vivants et sains?
Es-tu conscient que chacune de nos habitudes alimentaires peut affecter notre santé hépatique?
Ou encore, qu’un mode de vie sédentaire peut lui nuire?
C’est possible que tu ne le saches pas, mais une personne sur quatre dans le monde est atteint de la maladie du foie gras non-alcoolique (stéatose hépatique non-alcoolique ou NAFLD en anglais), que cela peut passer comme inaperçu pendant des années et résulter en de graves problèmes hépatiques, incluant la cirrhose et le cancer hépatique.
Te sens-tu concerné par ceci?
L’accumulation de gras dans le foie est causée par des modes de vie sédentaires et une diète peu équilibrée.
Es-tu à risque?
Même si c’est possible d’en être atteint sans embonpoint, les personnes obèses ou diabétiques de type 2 sont beaucoup plus à risque de développer le NALFD.
Et alors, comment peut-on prévenir cela?
Apprends-en plus sur ton foie avec cette bande-dessinée et découvre comment on peut prévenir et traiter cette maladie hépatique!
Pense à ton foie la prochaine fois que tu manges et n’oublies pas de te maintenir actif pour ta santé et ton bien-être.
Rappelle-toi qu’un foie en santé c’est la moitié du chemin accompli!

Sigues metge del teu propi fetge!

2021-03-08T11:13:08+00:00

Saps què és el fetge?
Coneixes la multitud de coses importants que fa per nosaltres, mantenint-nos vius i sans?
Ets conscient de que els hàbits alimentaris poden afectar el benestar del nostre fetge?
O que un estil de vida sedentari el pot perjudicar?
És probable que no ho sàpigues, però una de cada quatre persones al món té Fetge Gras No-Alcohòlic (FGNA, o NAFLD en anglès), una malaltia que pot passar desapercebuda durant anys i resultar en greus danys al fetge, incloent la cirrosi i el càncer hepàtic.
Ets una d’aquestes persones?
L’acumulació de greix al fetge està causada per estils de vida sedentaris i dietes poc saludables.
Estàs en risc?
Encara que pots patir-ho sense tenir sobrepès, les persones amb obesitat o diabetis tipus 2 tenen un risc major de desenvolupar FGNA.
I doncs, com ho podem resoldre, això?
Anima’t a conèixer millor el teu fetge amb aquest còmic i descobreix com tractar i prevenir aquesta malaltia hepàtica!
Pensa en el teu fetge la propera vegada que mengis i no t’oblidis de mantenir-te actiu per la seva salut i el teu benestar.
Recorda’t de ser metge del teu propi fetge!

A Healthy Liver Will Always Deliver!

2021-02-08T22:52:47+00:00

Important things it does for us, keeping us healthy and alive?
Did you know that our dietary habits can affect the wellbeing of our liver?
Or that a sedentary lifestyle can harm it?
You probably are not aware, but one in every four people in the world has Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), which can go unnoticed for years and result in severe liver damage, cirrhosis and even hepatic cancer.
Are you one of them?
The excessive accumulation of fat in the liver is caused by unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles.
Are you at risk?
Although you can have it without being overweight, people that are obese and those with Type 2 Diabetes have a higher risk of developing NAFLD.
So, how can we fix this?
Get to know your liver better with this comic and find out how to treat and prevent this form of liver disease!

Zdrowa w?troba przy d?ugim ?yciu Ci? zachowa!

2021-03-11T16:33:58+00:00

Czy wiesz jak istotna jest dla Ciebie Twoja w?troba?
Czy wiesz jak wiele wa?nych rzeczy robi dla nas, utrzymuj?c nas w zdrowiu oraz przy ?yciu?
Czy wiedzia?e?, ?e Twoje nawyki ?ywieniowe mog? mie? wp?yw na prawid?owe funkcjonowanie twojej w?troby?
A tak?e, ?e siedzi?cy tryb ?ycia mo?e zaszkodzi? w?trobie?
Prawdopodobnie nie zdajesz sobie sprawy z tego, ?e co czwarta osoba na ?wiecie cierpi na niealkoholow? st?uszczeniow? chorob? w?troby, która mo?e latami przebiega? bezobjawowo i skutkowa? wieloma powa?nymi uszkodzeniami w?troby, marsko?ci? lub nawet rakiem w?troby.
Czy jeste? jedn? z takich osób?
Nadmierne gromadzenie si? t?uszczu w w?trobie jest spowodowane niezdrow? diet? i siedz?cym trybem ?ycia.
Czy jeste? w grupie ryzyka?
Niemniej jednak choroba ta mo?e Ciebie dotyczy? mimo, ?e nie masz nadwagi. Osoby oty?e, ale tak?e osoby z cukrzyc? typu 2 s? bardziej nara?one na ryzyko rozwoju niealkoholowej st?uszczeniowej choroby w?troby.
Jak wi?c mo?emy temu zaradzi??
Poznaj lepiej swoj? w?trob? czytaj?c ten komiks i dowied? si? jak leczy? oraz zapobiega? tej chorobie w?troby.
Pomy?l o swojej w?trobie nast?pnym razem jak b?dziesz si?ga? po jedzenie i niezapominaj o prowadzeniu aktywnego trybu ?ycia dla Twojego zdrowia i Twojego dobrego samopoczucia.
Zdrowa w?troba przy d?ugim ?yciu Ci? zachowa!

Eine gesunde Leber – nicht nur was für Streber

2021-03-09T15:28:56+00:00

Hast du schon mal was u?ber deine Leber gehört?
Weißt du eigentlich, wie viele wichtige Funktionen sie erfu?llt, um uns gesund am Leben zu halten?
Wusstest du schon, dass deine Essgewohnheiten das Wohlergehen deiner Leber beeinflussen? Oder dass Bewegungsarmut und Inaktivität sie schädigen können?
Es ist dir wahrscheinlich nicht klar, dass jeder vierte Mensch auf der Welt eine Nichtalkoholische Fettleber (NAFLD) hat, die völlig unbemerkt u?ber Jahre einen massiven Leberschaden zur Folge haben kann und letztlich zu Zirrhose und sogar
Leberkrebs fu?hren kann. Bist du einer von ihnen?
Tatsächlich werden u?bermäßige Fettansammlungen in der Leber durch ungesunde Ernährung und eine passive Lebensweise verursacht. Gehörst du zu dieser Risikogruppe?
Auch wenn Menschen ohne Übergewicht daran erkranken können, haben Übergewichtige sowie Typ-2 Diabetiker*innen ein erhöhtes Risiko an NAFLD zu erkranken. Also, wie können wir das angehen?
Lerne deine Leber mit diesem Comic besser kennen und finde heraus, wie man die nichtalkoholische Fettlebererkrankung behandeln sowie ihr vorbeugen kann.
Denk bei deiner nächsten Mahlzeit an deine Leber und vergiss nicht, aktiv zu bleiben, um sie - und damit auch dich -, gesund zu halten.
Denk dran, eine gesunde Leber ist nicht nur was fu?r Streber!

A Healthy Liver Will Always Deliver!

2021-02-10T11:41:01+00:00

Europe, the West and the Sea

2021-01-25T15:59:10+00:00

Europe, the West and the Sea - particularly from the perspective of Portugal and Spain - is the focus and binding element of the seven chapters that make up this book. Using the image of a musical piece, it would be said that the book makes available to the reader as a set of variations, on the nuclear theme that shapes it. The result is the opportune work that the reader has in his hands, and that, in a transdisciplinary frame, registers and explores in each one of its chapters so many other moments and dimensions of the great Iberian saga of opening to the sea and of configuration and reconfiguration of the respective States and of the West itself.

Institutes of Grammar augmented and explained by Antonio Velez. Tome I

2021-05-14T11:25:03+00:00

Born on one hand from the renewal of Renaissance Humanism, from which it partakes the penchant for the text and the authority of classical authors, and from the pedagogical program of the Society of Jesus, on the other, the Institutes of Grammar of Manuel Alvares, published in 1572, enjoyed considerable reception either along the time (up to the 19th cent.) or accross geographies (various European editions as well as Far East and New World editions). In line with the Ignatian pedagogical program the work displays an eager preoccupation for the didactic dimension which can be seen in the search for a structure and an organization of matters that, notwithstanding the exhaustive exploration of details, look for the comprehension of the student and his/her receptive capacity.

Taking as its basis the augmented and revised edition the Jesuit António Velez published in 1598, this first volume containing Morphology aims to make accessible to the public a fundamental monument of Portuguese culture.

From Manuscript to Printed Book II

2021-04-15T13:37:29+00:00

This book continues the project of publishing the contributions arising from the Lecture Series "From manuscript to printed book", now bringing together, in a second volume, the studies of the third and fourth editions (2017/18 and 2018/19), which took place at the Department of Languages and Cultures of the University of Aveiro, within the scope of the Degree in Languages and Editorial Studies and the Master in Editorial Studies.
The purpose of this initiative is to foster and deepen the articulation between research and teaching, providing students with a privileged contact with the multiple aspects of the History of Books and Publishing. The close collaboration between the Department of Languages and Cultures and the Coimbra University Press has made it possible to extend the scope of this formative and investigative action to professional practice, since the MA students who complete their curricular internship in the publishing house are involved in the editing of the works.
The studies in the present volume, subjected to a rigorous refereeing process, deal with various topics in the History of Books and Publishing and are one of the most visible results of a project that is being renewed and which aims to contribute to the dissemination of the Arts of the Book.

Twenty Months of Hell

2021-01-19T12:10:04+00:00

This book is a revisitation, made by the José de Gouveia Monteiro himself, of his Rectorate at the University of Coimbra (1970-1971), two decades later. In the final period of the Estado Novo, a Minister (Veiga Simão) wanted to regenerate the Portuguese University; a professor of Medicine (Gouveia Monteiro) was chosen to do so in Coimbra. One year after the 1969 crisis, with the wounds still open, in a country of glowing hope and disenchantment, a young Rector took on the impossible mission of pacifying, depoliticising and reforming the University of Coimbra. It is this extraordinary adventure of twenty months that these Memoirs evoke. For the first time and in a rigorous way and widely supported in documents of the time.

Institutes of Grammar augmented and explained by Antonio Velez. Tome II

2021-05-14T13:13:12+00:00

Giants on stage

2021-05-13T10:51:57+00:00

Giants on Stage shows a static picture in which the 'giants' of the title, Kamini, Gunema, Kasko and Tuboum - slightly disguised representations of Idi Amin Macias Nguema, Jean-Bedel Bokassa and Mobutu Sese Seko, respectively - are presented as constituents of the post-colonial products of the Western superpowers. Kamini, for example, is put into power by the British, financed by the Americans, militarily armed by the Soviets and ultimately abandoned by all when the services of an insane dictator is no longer convenient to them. Giants on Stage is thus a surreal fantasy of international poetic justice in which the economic and political support systems of Western governments respond catastrophically, in their own time and at their own whim, to the monsters they have created and consequently lost control over.In this play, Soyinka manages to bring together in one place all the infamous dictators of Africa. The Secretary General of the United Nations and two delegates, from Russia and the United States, are the other personalities who give Giants on Stage its international character. The pretext for such an encounter is a meeting of the United Nations. As the play unfolds, we witness the role the superpowers play in sustaining the dictators in power and at the same time the true nature of these African dictators - their confusions, sexual perversions, their misconceptions of power and its complexities.

CREATOUR

2022-02-24T16:14:11+00:00

The CREATOUR project served as a research-and-development phase for the catalyzation of a network of creative tourism developers who locally conceived, designed, tested, and implemented their offers in small cities and rural areas across the country, while being connected nationally. This book presents the ideas and journeys of each of the 40 CREATOUR pilot projects. Each chapter discusses the development path of and organization (or partnership) and its projects, issues encountered, successes, reflections on the journey so far, and aspirations and plans for the future. The co-writing process of developing the chapters, which involved both researchers and practitioners, provided valuable collaborative experiences in co-learning and knowledge exchange, resulting in narratives that aim to embody the flavour and distinctiveness of each organization and initiative.

Globalization as a Problem

2020-11-26T14:24:04+00:00

This book is the first in a series of books resulting from the conferences presented in the International Seminar on Global Studies, a joint initiative by the Aberta University, through the FCT Chair Infante Dom Henrique for Atlantic Island Studies and Globalization, with the Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, from 2015-2019, and then continuing as a joint project with the Chair for Global Studies and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
This is a project dedicated to the protection of an idea of globalization with a human face, at the service of the people and democracy. The conferences now being published are authored by renowned Portuguese and international researchers in various fields of knowledge. In actuality, this is a scientific, cultural and civic compromise with a total human knowledge. The conferences now being published are mainly related to the fields of Social and Human Sciences, dealing with History, Literature, Politics, Language, Culture, Art and Epistemology of Globalization.

Computational Learning in Engineering

2020-11-26T16:25:46+00:00

Computational Learning in Engineering allows engineers to use computational learning techniques to develop solutions that promote or improve productivity in various domains. This book approaches several themes, ranging from conexionist approaches, learning techniques by data agglomeration, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computing methods, among others, always having in mind the use of techniques in a fast and efficient way, without neglecting, however, the accuracy that the subject deserves.

It is thus presented a set of the most used algorithms and a representative set of the real problems to which they can give solution. In order to make the book reasonably self-contained, each chapter includes a short introduction to the algorithm addressed, followed by simple ways of putting it into practice. In this sense, the mode of use of software that makes the algorithms available, their configuration and their use in real cases and data is presented.

Pedagogical supervision in the 21st century: challenges of teacher professionalism

2020-11-20T15:38:39+00:00

The present work aims to be a forum of debate on themes concerning teacher training in the twenty-first century. The volume is articulated around three main topics: i) Pedagogical supervision and professional teacher development; ii) Ethics and professionalism in initial teacher training and iii) Supervision in initial teacher training.

The Classical World and the universality of its values

2020-11-17T16:29:58+00:00

This work aims to honor Prof. Doctor Nair de Nazaré Castro Soares, Emerita Professor of the University of Coimbra, in recognition for her brilliant academic career and outstanding achievements in the research and teaching throughout the years. Many generations of students and researchers have benefited, in the country and abroad, from her long and profitable activity at the service of university and science. This work results from the contributions of those disciples, colleagues and friends, gathering studies that cover the main areas of knowledge in which she excelled: Greco-Roman Literature and Culture, Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages, studies on Renaissance Humanism, and Classical Heritage in Modern and Contemporary World.

The Classical World and the universality of its values

2020-11-17T16:53:31+00:00

Plínio Salgado (1895-1975). Fascismo e autoritarismo no Brasil do Século XX

2020-11-10T12:37:31+00:00

Plínio Salgado was one of the most relevant figures in the history of the Brazilian right in the 20th century. Born in São Bento do Sapucaí (sp) in 1895, he was an important modernist writer and politician linked to the Paulista Republican Party in the 1920s. In the 1930s he founded the main fascist movement that emerged in Brazil, Ação Integralista Brasileira. As an integralist leader, he was in the forefront of national politics until he was defeated and exiled to Portugal by Getúlio Vargas. In the post-war period, he participated actively in the politics of the 1940s and 1950s and, after 1964, became a supporter of the military regime. To understand the life of Plínio Salgado is, to a good extent, to understand the history of Brazil and the world in the 20th century.
This book is a biographical exercise that seeks to reconstruct Salgado's life in its integrity. Unlike most of the texts that dealt with his life and work, it is not restricted to the integralist period, encompassing his entire life and the different roles he played. The content is based on extensive bibliographic research, having been consulted archives from Brazil and other countries, such as Italy, Portugal, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Lessons in Administrative Law

2020-11-06T12:18:04+00:00

As the name indicates, this work, entitled "Lessons in Administrative Law", is specifically intended for students of the law degree and gathers the summaries, more or less developed, of the lectures given in the theoretical classes of the subjects of Administrative Law I and II at the Faculty of Law of Coimbra. After an introduction to Administrative Law and Public Administration, in its various dimensions, it addresses, in the set of subjects that are the object of study in the first semester, the problems of the linkage of Administration to Law, including the dogma of administrative legal relations, as well as the functional and structural aspects of administrative organization, especially the Portuguese system. The subject matter of the second half of the year corresponds to the study of the legal regime of administrative activity, namely the main forms of legal-public action of the Administration: the regulations, the act and the administrative contract.

The sapient orations at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra 1921-2020

2020-11-05T11:54:55+00:00

Close to 100 years since the first time the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra was designated and because only after 2025 will this Faculty be called back to give a new oratory intervention in the Great Hall of Acts, we consider the time to consolidate this work and make it known to the whole academic community.
It should be noted that, throughout this century, only seven orations of wisdom have been said, given the late passage from Pharmacy Teaching to Higher Education and even later the passage from Pharmacy School to Pharmacy Faculty.
It is these seven sapient orations "in praise of the Sciences and exhortation of the listeners to their study" that we now gather in a single volume and that we consider to contribute not only to illustrate what was the History of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra, but also to remember and honor the authors who wrote these sapient orations and, in them, all the teachers of this Faculty.

Existential Categories. Purpose – Meaning – Selfhood

2020-11-02T11:40:52+00:00

What is at stake in all these studies are the existential categories. These are revealed in their vital execution, so that the diversity of points of view may be more useful to put the reader on the trail of existential categories than a text about them, in which they would run the risk of becoming categories of thought. For this reason, this volume welcomes with the same interest studies on The Phenomenology of Spirit and Céline, on the phenomenon of desire, in the Phaedo, and the “for the sake of” in the existential analysis of Dasein, by Heidegger, the phenomenon of the grotesque, in Flannery O'Connor’s work, and the subject of “I would prefer not to”, in Bartleby.

Texts on Public Finance

2020-10-30T12:17:12+00:00

This work collects didactic texts intended mainly for students of Public Finance in the context of a degree in Law, but also for all those looking for more information on legal, economic and political issues of Public Finance This collection of texts includes topics such as the economic role of government, the public provision of goods, the concept of public budget, budget balance, budgetary process, budget law and the legal framework of public expenditure.

Bernardino António Gomes (1768-1823)

2020-10-28T10:45:48+00:00

Theophrastus. Causes of the plants

2020-10-15T15:25:59+00:00

After the study entitled History of the Plants, Theophrastus continued his research on botany and published a second set of results, now entitled Causes of the Plants.

Assuming the inevitable dialogue between the two titles, Theophrastus progressed, however, from an inventory to a more technical reflection, looking at agriculture as an 'art' with the capacity to manipulate nature and serve commercial, gastronomic and medicinal objectives.

This volume offers the first translation into Portuguese of the Causes of plants, by Theophrastus. The nature of the subject needed the collaboration of a Hellenist and a botanist, in order to ensure the accuracy of the translation and the specificity of the footnotes and indexes. Beside the large number of footnotes, there is an introduction that identifies Theophrastus, his intellectual circle and the scientific structure of his exposition. The volume also includes a bibliography and eight indexes: four of Greek nomenclature and its translation into Portuguese, referring to the chapters of Theophrastus' text; the others of Latin names given to the species (plants and animals), referring to the footnotes.

Statues in Roman Religion

2020-11-04T15:21:30+00:00

This volume brings together nine studies on statues of divinities in the Roman Mediterranean, considering them as historical products characterised by the plasticity and dynamism of their forms and meanings. Visual languages, iconographic elements, spatial conceptions, modes of behaviour, actions and performance that created the divine, as well as intellectual constructs, narratives and knowledge that made divine beings present are issues that make up this collection of contributions by an interdisciplinary and international team.

From treatment to information organization

2020-10-02T14:59:20+00:00

This work presents a theoretical and historical reflection on the classical notions of information treatment and information organization, based on the epistemological sphere of knowledge organization. It consists of eight chapters that discuss (1) the terminological variations produced in Brazilian and Portuguese Science and Teaching, (2) the discussion of theoretical and conceptual aspects of information organization and representation and their correlation with the practical aspects that involve digital informational environments; (3) the conceptual design inherent to the representation of information made from the discussion of cataloging as a confluence of descriptive, thematic, contextual and access to information aspects so that the interconnection between them is assured; (4) the different theoretical and methodological perspectives on domain modeling applied to the elaboration of information representation and retrieval tools, in the context of electronic information and communication networks; (5) the identification and exploitation of aspects of terminological variation in scientific production on Information Organization relating to the terms Documentary Analysis and Subject Analysis; (6) information resource representation applications, contexts and processes where innovations derived from computer science, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and new database platforms have transformed the context of data production. documents, knowledge organization systems, semantic exploration and visualization methods.

Fundo Bibliográfico Antigo da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra: Séc. XV-XVIII

2020-10-01T09:31:00+00:00

Of the 581 titles that make up the old bibliographical collection of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, covering the 15th to 18th centuries, only five fall into the 15th century, thus constituting the so-called incunabula, the oldest cluster. From the 16th century names such as Amato Lusitano, Aristotle, Avicena, Guido de Chauliac, Dioscórides, Hippocrates, Galeno, Jacopo da Forli, Rasis, o "damasceno" Mesue and Pedro Julião or Pedro Hispano can be highlighted. These are the main manuals that contain, for the most part, commentaries to the Greek classics of medicine, particularly Galen, Hippocrates and Dioscorides, since the medieval study made from the commentary, usually graphically translated by the original text of the auctoritas occupying the center of the page, highlighted by the body of the type and surrounded by the commentary or glosa, was still very present in the 16th century. In matters as sensitive as medicine, the statements had to be based on any of the authors recognized as authorities. From the 17th century there are some works by Portuguese authors such as Duarte Madeira Arrais, Manuel de Azevedo, Rodrigo de Castro (according to some the founder of Portuguese obstetrics), Rodrigo da Fonseca, Tomás Rodrigues da Veiga and Abraão Zacuto, this one printed in Lyon and Amsterdam, as well as some of those mentioned above, which attests to the international recognition of the studies of these Portuguese authors. From the 18th century, along with pharmacopoeias, there are a significant number of works of surgery, some of which are of Portuguese authorship and numerous dictionaries on medical subjects, History of Medicine and, curiously, portable health dictionaries, in the line of treaties on the health of peoples. Portuguese authors such as Jacob de Castro Sarmento, João Curvo Semedo, Feliciano de Almeida and others, publish their works in Portugal and abroad. The production of works on Physiology, Medical Physics and Conservative and Preventive Medicine is intensified. The present work describes in detail each one of the copies of this fund, giving special emphasis to its provenance attested by the numerous handwritten notes, in its great majority religious congregations, of which the Bookstore of the Monastery of St. Augustine's Regranted Canons with 337 copies and some old university colleges that had, in fact, in number and quality varied, bibliographic nuclei that supported the religious and student populations that frequented them.

Conciones ex historicis excerptae

2020-09-29T14:14:52+00:00

The set of studies included in this book is devoted to a subject to which, until recently, critics had paid little attention: the anthologies of speeches from Greco-Latin historiography published in the Renaissance and the Early Modern Age. This type of publication, a true editorial genre that enjoyed enormous success and wide acceptance by contemporary audiences, provides information of great interest to delve into essential aspects of the history of the rhetoric, the processes of instruction and even the history of ideas in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Works by Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira VII: medieval and renaissance Latin

2020-09-29T09:55:49+00:00

Volume VII contains more works in Medieval Latin (hagiographies of Portugaliae Monumenta Historica: S. Rosendo, Santa Senhorinha and S. Teotónio) and, above all, books in Renaissance Latin (the Prayer of Sapience by Belchior Beleago, a brief study on The Prayers of Sapience and the University and also Latin Praises to the Colloquium on Simple and Drugs).

Análise dos Media

2020-09-28T11:40:32+00:00

The book Análise dos Medias is a revised and updated re-edition of a work from 2012. It is organized in six chapters, preceded by an Introduction. The first chapter, "Theoretical Frameworks", is an epistemological chapter that places this field of knowledge within the scope of Media Studies. The second, "Drawing up a research on the media", describes the path of drawing up a research on the media, using as an example the journalistic coverage of the theme "political corruption" in Portugal. The third chapter, "Methods in Media Analysis", focuses on the methods used in empirical media research, with emphasis on content analysis and qualitative methods such as narrative analysis, semiotic analysis and discourse analysis. The fourth chapter "The Challenges of Social Media Analysis" aims at addressing the challenges that social media researchers face. In the fifth chapter, there is a brief conclusion of the frameworks, assumptions and paths inherent to Media Analysis, followed by the sixth and last chapter, which presents a commented bibliographical selection of the most relevant works.

As seen from Coimbra, the College of Jesus between Portugal and the World

2020-09-24T15:24:25+00:00

This book is the result of many contributions presented at the Colloquium 'COIMBRA VIEW - The College of Jesus between Portugal and the World' which took place at the University of Coimbra in May 2017 and culminated with the homonymous exhibition at the Science Museum of the UC in September of the same year, but also of the cycle 'Culture, Science and Cult' which took place throughout the year of 2016. This cycle included two documentary exhibitions ('Culture, Science and Cult' in the Archive of the University of Coimbra and 'A Conimbriga Vrbe Ad Orbem - De Coimbra para o Mundo' in the Library Joanina), as well as several lectures and book presentations.
On the cover there is an engraving of the Moon made by Cristovão Borri (Collecta Astronomica, 1631), most probably the oldest graphic document of an astronomical observation made in Portugal and which took place in the city of Coimbra. On the figure one can read 'in Coimbra, the exact face of the crescent moon, aged six days, seen by an optical tube in July 1627'.

Brazil and Portugal

2020-09-14T11:08:00+00:00

With the work Brazil and Portugal: dictatorships and transitions to democracy, the second stage of the "Contemporary History" Collection begins, published by the University of Coimbra Press under the Scientific Coordination of the Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20/UC). The collection will be directed by António Rafael Amaro (historian, professor of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, researcher of CEIS20/UC) and by João Paulo Avelãs Nunes (historian, professor of the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, researcher of CEIS20/UC).
As in the previous stage, during which Maria Manuela Tavares Ribeiro was responsible for the creation and operation of the Collection, the aim is to disseminate quality and socially relevant studies on contemporary Portuguese and other countries' history (19th to 21st centuries). Monographs and collective works, mono, inter and transdisciplinary approaches, less or more comparative readings, texts in Portuguese and other languages (English, French, Castilian, Italian), works by CEIS20/UC researchers and by researchers linked to other institutions or organisations are accepted for evaluation.
Observing, at the present juncture, the intensification of crisis and tension indicators at national, sub-continental and international levels, historiography - deontological and epistemological assumptions, concepts and methodologies, proposals for reconstitution and interpretation - on the contemporary era sees its global social relevance expanded.

Chosen Stories

2020-09-07T13:45:41+00:00

"[...] Dear Reader, it will be worthwhile, alongside my Poetry Selection, to offer you now my Chosen Tales, two remarkable books of my literary journey that circumstances have not allowed to be more fruitful. I hope, however, that together with the other works - novels, essays and civic intervention - they will bear witness, albeit modestly, to a writer committed to his time because he considers literature to be "the expression of his own humanity and of all humanity".

Obras Públicas no Estado Novo

2020-09-01T11:04:25+00:00

This book analyses different repertories of the Estado Novo's performance in the field of public works, from architecture to urbanism, including the conservation and restoration of built heritage. It brings together twenty authors from different generations and backgrounds. Without claiming to be exhaustive, it presents the current state of knowledge on the multiple programs developed during the regime, which had, at various scales, consequences in the organization of the Portuguese territory and landscape. One of the main goals of this volume is to enhance an integrated reading of these programs. Secondly, it aims to highlight, by embracing the existence of multiple analytical positions as an advantage, the common denominators and areas of dissent, the different theoretical references and methodologies mobilized to understand this multifaceted object of study. Rather than pursuing univocal readings, this multifaceted portrait of national historiography seeks to contribute to (re)imagine a research horizon, ideally transdisciplinary, comparative, and collaborative.

Information Science: visions and trends

2020-08-24T09:40:07+00:00

Information Science: visions and trends brings together a diverse range of views and voices about Information Science. Teachers and researchers from universities in five countries, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Germany and Mexico explore and problematize the origins, evolution, theoretical and epistemological foundations of the scientific area, as pure (visions - different approaches / perspectives) and applied science. (trends - what is being followed, gaining body and materiality).

Taken together, these contributions feed the vital debate about the impact of social and technological change on the concept of information, on information science teaching and research, and the important role of information in democratic societies.

Migrações e Exílios no Mundo Contemporâneo

2020-08-21T11:00:07+00:00

This book deals with the different ways, paths, experiences and cultures of migrations and exiles, mainly from Portugal, to a universe of territories in Europe and America. By means various interdisciplinary models of analysis and methodologies, the authors study this subject from a contemporary and transversal perspective, with an special emphasys in some cases and biographies.

Archive Practices in Performing Arts

2020-08-07T15:12:47+00:00

The relationship between the archive and the performing arts has been occupying a prominent place in contemporary thought, unfolding into several aspects: the archive as a process, the performativity of the archive, the archive of practices and the archive as a practice. This volume aggregates perspectives on what constitutes the archive in contemporaneity, showing how it is constructed, dissolved and simultaneously materialized in forms of memory and in incorporated experiences. The archive thus presents itself as a category that multiplies in the discourse of collectors, archivists, researchers, programmers, artists and spectators. As a plural universe, present in philosophical and historiographic discourse, it is translated into documents and statements, continuously archived and revived, in a movement in which histories are lost and gained. The reading of this book's index reveals the thematic scope and the panoramic view that it seeks to launch on the archive practices, in several disciplinary inscriptions (performance, dance, theatre, music), in a national context and in international dialogue.

Emerging topics in Management Studies

2020-09-01T15:25:06+00:00

Presently, Management has witnessed vast advancements, clearly becoming an area of trans and interdisciplinary knowledge. It has widened its scope from traditional business areas – such as marketing, strategy, management control, accounting and finance, taxation or operations – to other spaces, namely deepening bridges with behavioural sciences, engineering, health, or energy, fostering both quantitative models and methods.
Management thinking at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC) has followed these trends, enabling students with the essential skills supporting the practice of the profession, both in business and public sector organisations.
This book features topical trends of research in Management studies, in which FEUC professors are involved, together with international peers, evidencing the openness of the Faculty to the world. Numerous of the subjects addressed relate to challenges that organisations are already facing or will have to deal with shortly. Therefore, the book not only presents innovative research questions, but it also delivers a practical perspective. Thus, organisations will certainly find here some support to better manage those issues in practice.

Revisiting Plato’s Parmenides

2020-07-29T15:19:55+00:00

This book presents a collection of selected essays from the papers presented to the international conference on Plato’s Parmenides on the occasion of the 2^nd Meeting of the Mediterranean Section of the International Plato Society (Coimbra, 14-16 June 2012). It opens with an introduction to the different approaches to this most challenging dialogue taken by the contributors of the volume. Samuel Scolnicov helpfully brings together the theoretical and ethical dimensions of the Parmenides. Luc Brisson, Néstor Cordero, Maurizio Migliori, Franco Trabattoni, Francesco Fronterotta, Mario Jorge Carvalho, J.D.Bares Partal, Beatriz Bossi, Francesca Pizzuti and Gabriele Cornelli present an in-depth analysis and commentary of the main topics of the first and second part of the dialogue from different points of view. The book also includes further clarification of interpretation problems and the reception of this dialogue in late Antiquity and Renaissance.

Coimbra Aristotelian Jesuit Course. Tomus II: Ethica

2020-07-28T14:01:32+00:00

Among all the Commentaries on the ‘Nichomachean Ethics’ by Aristotle, the Jesuit Coimbra Commentary (16th Century), written by Manuel de Góis, as a part of the widely known Jesuit Coimbra Commentaries (1592-1606), has its particularities. It is not a full-scale treatment of the Aristotelian title but its nine disputations form a brief compendium in which it is possible to see the relevance of Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae. As happened with the other Coimbra titles, the Ethica soon spread throughout European Universities and Colleges, and arrived in South American territories and China. The present volume, the second tome of the series that the IUC is presently publishing, introduces the Coimbra text and provides a modern edition of the original Latin with a Portuguese translation.

Eratosthenes. Constelações do Zodíaco

2020-07-27T11:11:54+00:00

This text by (Ps.)Eratosthenes translated in this publication portrays a group of episodes not limited to 12 constellations. Nor does it discuss deterministic influences / constraints on daily, monthly, or annual contingencies and behaviors of the earthly creatures of the Alexandrian Era. Although it is not an astronomical treatise and the style has a simple and succinct character, much remains to be decoded in just over forty episodes. Of astronomical connotations, it presents itself as an approximation exercise, providing the receiver with explanations of something visible but not attainable - the constellations, through images of common knowledge, rooted in scenes and mythological aspects. In addition, the topoi are vast, such as philia, betrayal, anger, justice, crime and punishment, reverence, eponymia, etiology, metamorphosis, mythology.

Elizabeth, Queen and Saint

2020-07-24T13:15:34+00:00

The cult around the holiness and the relics of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal is a remarkable phenomenon, not only in the field of religion, but in the artistic, literary, social and political ones as well. Elizabeth or Isabel of Aragon was a most remarkable person in her time and the cult around her holiness and her relics would know a continuing and unstoppable advance. Even before the canonical recognition of her holiness and immediately after her death, she was considered by the faithful Christians, especially those of Coimbra, a most important intercessor with God. She had spent the last years of her life in this city where she decided to be buried. The beautiful tomb with her relics, the most tangible sign of the presence of the Holy Queen, turned into an important holy place of pilgrimage. This book studies the different dimensions of this phenomenon, from medieval to modern times: the theological implications of the cult of the relics, the study of the mendicant spirituality that inspired D. Isabel, the works of art, such as the Queen's first tomb, or the celebratory literature of her heroic figure, exploring the documental sources as well, which reveal the historical, social and political circumstances of the evolution of her cult at the Monastery of Santa Clara, the College of Arts, the University and in the city of Coimbra

Plato’s Gorgias

2020-07-17T11:32:17+00:00

Though at first it may seem to deal with rather specific questions concerning rhetoric, Plato’s Gorgias turns out to be about human life, and what is at stake in it. This apparent “change of subject” – or rather this ambiguity in the dialogue’s subjectmatter – has to do with the fact that the Gorgias is very much like a labyrinth: puzzling, intricate, made of multiple meandering paths in which one can easily get lost, and full of deviations which turn this way and that, of entrances that seem to be dead ends, and of dizzying turns that distort all sense of direction.

Galen of Pergamon. The properties of food. Book I

2020-07-16T10:18:03+00:00

The present book offers the first translation into Portuguese of the book I of one of the most relevant works of Galen of Pergamon. This treaty on the properties of food presents a general view on the knowledge of Galen on natural sciences, more precisely, his medical expertise and the empirical knowledge on the properties of food and physiology. When approaching the nature of things, Galen of Pergamon tends to use an analytic process based on the relation between different elements interacting in a particular system. With respect to ancient eating habits and health, this way of collecting information and formulating hypotheses has a kind of potential for generating hierarchies and is attested to in De alimentorum facultatibus I, in which foodstuffs are evaluated considering the particular result expected on a subject ’s metabolism. In sum, this work is a paradigm of Galen’s science and may explain by itself the impact of Galen in modern science.
This book includes a translation of De alimentorum facultatibus I, a brief introduction to the context of Galen’s intellectual production and a study on the ancient text and the information it brings regarding the knowledge of ancient scholars on physiology and the properties of food

Behold, your King comes to you. Archaeology and Archetypes of the Episcopal Entry Ceremony in Portugal and in the Portuguese Empire (XVI-XVIII Centuries)

2020-07-16T14:25:59+00:00

Paola Nestola puts her hands and under the eyes of the readers a comprehensive study to reflect on the ceremonial as a field of construction of religious identity, highlighting the archaeological and archetypal features of an important ceremony of the modern era: the solemn entrance of the bishops into the diocese. In recent decades much has been published about political rituality, both in Portugal and in other countries with deep Christian roots. The book, based on written and visual documents, fits into this scientific context, with the purpose of analysing a little knowne thereal corpus of ceremonial representations but with a strong symbolic and emotional charge. Starting from the unpublished biographical stages of the Archbishop of Braga, Fr. Agostinho de Jesus (1588-1609), will it be possible to approach an incursion into this episcopal ceremony and its archetypal origins? Is it possible to reflect on the imaginative and contemplative experience unleashed on the protagonists of this liturgy? Is it possible to reconstruct the perception that has arisen, in its contemporaries, of the power and jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Braga? Throughout the 17th-18th centuries the solemn ceremony changed following a cultural, religious, political, theological and liturgical change that also took into account the reflections of the Protestant Reformation. For this purpose, other iconographic representations, other ceremonial memories of the dioceses of Portugal and its empire make these analytical purposes possible.

G.W.Leibniz - Novo Sistema da Natureza

2020-07-15T11:57:41+00:00

Em 1714, o Príncipe Eugénio de Sabóia pede a Leibniz um resumo do seu "pensamento". Como resposta recebe os Principes de la Nature et de la Grace fondés en raison. Poucos meses depois2, Leibniz inicia a redacção da "Monadologia"3. Os dois textos são, assim, contemporâneos e, por isso, normalmente editados em conjunto, o que se justifica: correspondem à mesma fase do pensamento de Leibniz e, ainda que foquem os mesmos problemas sob ângulos nem sempre idênticos, possuem uma forma literária muito semelhante. Nenhum dos textos foi publicado em vida de Leibniz.

Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major

2020-07-15T11:10:09+00:00

It is a well-known fact that Kant used the lament of the Trojan queen, Hecuba, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to describe the fate of metaphysics. But these words could equally be used to describe the peculiar fate of the Alcibiades Major. There was a time when this small dialogue was held in high regard and enjoyed much authority.2 The Alcibiades Major was unreservedly attributed to Plato. It was much read, quoted and alluded to. And it is no exaggeration to say that it was one of the key works of the corpus platonicum. The contrast with the present could hardly be more striking.

Crosses Represented: Imagology and Figurations of Alterity

2020-07-10T16:31:26+00:00

This volume is a collection of texts that result from several debates and workshops held during the development of the project “Literatura, Imagologia e Transnacionalismo” (Literature, Imagology and Transnationalism). This project is carried out within the research activities of the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa (CLP), of the University of Coimbra.

Several approaches of literary criticism are presented within a theoretical background of Imagology and literary transnationalism. These essays aim to study cultural clashes and intercultural dialogues in different works by Portuguese authors that present identitarian images of Portuguese and/or of the ‘foreigner’ in his otherness. The intersection of the various representations thus transcends a purely nationalistic perspective.

Therefore, this volume has not only a component of literary analysis but also achieves a patrimonial and cultural dimension, since the several essays investigate how interculturality is represented in Portuguese literary works.

Mitochondrial Follies

2020-07-06T10:49:04+00:00

Portuguese Daily Newspapers of the 20th Century - a dictionary

2020-07-14T11:33:25+00:00

This work studies, in the form of a dictionary, all the more than three hundred daily newspapers that between 1900 and 2000 were published in mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores. The year or years of publication of the newspapers are indicated, as well as the political trend, format, names of directors, sub-directors, editors-in-chief and administrators, ownership and addresses of the newsrooms and composition and printing workshops. A summary of the life of each newspaper is made and the respective quota is indicated in the main places where it can be consulted: National Library, General Library of the University of Coimbra, Municipal Public Library of Oporto, Municipal Hemeroteca of Lisbon and Municipal Hemeroteca of Coimbra. In the case of newspapers started in the 19th century, a brief summary is given of that period. In addition to a Foreword to the first edition of Dr. Isabel Nobre Vargues and a Presentation Note by Professor Luís Reis Torgal. a study on the History of the Portuguese Daily Press in the 20th Century and an Onomastic Index are included.

Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West

2020-06-30T10:22:41+00:00

This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.

The Multidimensionality of Peace

2020-06-25T11:45:39+00:00

In the year we celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the PhD programme in International Politics and Conflict Resolution, this book gathers contributions from the first nine PhDs who successfully completed their studies. The chapters now published are a synthesis of the doctoral theses defended within the context of the PhD programme, noting the patrimony of reflection that has been built, and which since the very beginning has been widening and deepening in thematic and methodological terms. Through these nine studies, we share with the readers’ community a reading of the world that has at its core the building of a multidimensional peace and that expresses the paths taken by this laboratory of debate and reflection that is this PhD programme. Expressing the plurality of approaches that the PhD embraces, these chapters adopt diverse angles regarding approaches to this multidimensional and demanding peace in the contemporary international system.

Chemistry

2020-06-23T11:20:35+00:00

Chemistry was introduced to the academic curriculum of the University of Coimbra in 1772, the year when Lavoisier placed at the Académie des Sciences a 'pli cacheté' containing the first results of his research leading to the chemical revolution. The attention paid to this science foundation, the pioneering attitude of the chair dedicated to its study and the continuing relevance of its courses is emphasised. The progress of chemistry in Portugal and in leading scientific countries is revisited. e progress of chemistry in Portugal and in leading scientific countries is revisited. A comparative critical analysis between the Portuguese and international development is also carried out in this work as well as examining the particular historical circumstances of the University of Coimbra at the time. Furthermore, the pre-scientific path of chemistry is given as an introduction.

Francisco Suárez

2020-06-23T15:48:40+00:00

This volume publishes the Proceedings of the 1st International Meeting "Thinking Baroque in Portugal" (26-28 June 2017), which dealt with the metaphysical, ethical and political thinking of Francisco Suárez. Counting on the collaboration of some of the greatest international specialists in the work and thought of this famous professor of the University of Coimbra in the 17th century, this volume celebrates the 400th anniversary of his death and marks the productivity of his philosophical-theological legacy.

Socio-Emotional Development and Creativity of Gifted Students

2020-06-22T15:27:51+00:00

Written in a vigorous tone and in dynamic colors, this book is not just another book on the social, emotional and creative development of the gifted, but a range of attentive and theoretically grounded views through which we can look at this passionate subject in a different way.

Social and Cultural Psychiatry

2020-06-19T16:58:41+00:00

This book expresses a desire for dialogue and service to the community based on the interdisciplinary contribution of the teaching staff of the Masters in Social and Cultural Psychiatry of the FMUC. The different texts keep a relationship with psychiatry, from theoretical spaces intrinsic or extrinsic to the discipline, demonstrating that there is no health without mental health, and that there is no mental health without the social and cultural contexts that determine it.
From an area of knowledge as hybrid as social and cultural psychiatry, various themes are addressed, with contributions not only from psychiatry, but also from psychology, sociology, sexology, anthropology and theology. These themes relate directly or indirectly to individual and collective health, valuing the psychological, social and cultural dimensions of malaise and suffering.

Media, information and literacy

2020-06-19T15:56:01+00:00

Media, information and literacy: directions and perspectives brings together a diverse range of perspectives and voices on the relationship between Media, Information and Literacy, in an attempt to document directions and discuss seemingly triumphant perspectives in the international context and on an interdisciplinary horizon. Taken together, these contributions fuel the bumpy but vital debate about the impact of social and technological change on the concept of literacy and the place of literacy in democratic societies.

José Saramago. 20 years with the Nobel Prize

2020-06-17T15:40:15+00:00

The International Conference “José Saramago: 20 Years with the Nobel Prize” was a unique opportunity to reflect upon and debate the work of a great writer. During a period of three days, the conference provided the forum to reassess the author’s writing and propose new areas of investigation on many aspects of the writer’s vast and multifaceted work: his novels and the main themes that are represented in them; the characters and their modes of existence; his poetry, theater and chronicle writing; and the adaptations in fiction and other art forms, were the object of study of close to five dozen presentations, by scholars from a variety of countries, predominantly from Portugal and Brazil.

Territories of Care

2020-06-15T13:37:43+00:00

To what extent do territories exert influence on the management of old age? How can one qualify old-age experiences from territories? These are central questions in the discussions pointed out in this book. Based on the ethnography developed in four different territories of the municipality of Coimbra, the author, in a human and social interdisciplinary dialogue, presents the territories through a historical and geographical contextualization, while elaborating and deepening the debate on the relations established between elderly people and the territories.

Fragments of Aristophanes

2020-06-12T10:00:42+00:00

This work aims at shedding light on the corpus or fragments of Ancient Comedy, which is often overshadowed by Aristophanes’ eleven extant comedies. It presents the first annotated translation into Portuguese of the fragments of Aristophanes and of their sources.
This volume also contains an introductory study dedicated to these sources, the context in wich the excerpts appeared and how they were transmitted. It brings together and organizes useful information on lexicography and deals with the reception of Aristophanes in Antiquity.

Psychiatry in Portugal in the first decades of the XX century

2020-06-08T14:25:35+00:00

The author studies Portuguese psychiatry in the period of its institutionalization. It summarizes the international scientific-medical context, showing the progress of medicine, where, in addition to biology, the study of psychogenetic formulations began at the end of the 19th century. It then analyzes the national context, including legislation, establishments and their history, regulations, plans for reform, publications and scientific dissemination, and education, highlighting the reform of 1911. The protagonists, their ideas and published works are analyzed, trying to show their differences of opinion in various matters, in historical times crossed by social and political conflicts, but of great wealth in the level of ideas.

If in the first phase the main figures are heralds of eighteenth-century philosophical and scientific currents, in the second phase new ideas arise that allow the renewal of the relations between neurology and psychiatry, and a more psychological and psychotherapeutic attitude is disclosed. In conclusion, psychiatry, according to a multidisciplinary enlargement, is defining more diverse forms of institutional treatment, with a more inclusive biological vision.

Works by Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira IX: Studies on Portuguese Language and Literature

2020-06-05T16:02:01+00:00

In this volume there are twenty-eight studies by the author, among the many she has published on the general theme of Portuguese language and literature. Because it was not possible to locate it, the prayer The paths of harmony of a single language, presented at the invitation of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, which the author had planned to include among the studies now published, was left out (see "Previous Note" in vol. I, pp. V-VI).

National Health Service. SNS. 30 years of Resistance

2020-06-03T09:59:26+00:00

Men and institutions are always looking for lost time. For me, it hurts the time they lost to the NHS, but I now want to look to the future with optimism and confidence. I trust in the strength of fair and generous ideas. I trust in democracy and its rules of operation: the President of the Republic will comply and enforce the Constitution. Members of Parliament and Governors will be able to respect the will of the People, the only source of their legitimacy. If everyone has the common good, justice and social cohesion in mind, and, in this humanist logic, considers health as a right of all and not a privilege of those who can afford it, the NHS will be an April carnation that will never wither.

D. Jerónimo Osório. Opera Omnia. Book IV. Paraphrase of Psalms

2020-06-03T16:57:31+00:00

Although not published in life, David's "Paraphrases to the Psalms" are one of the works in which the mastery of multiple literary records and the superior mastery of the Latin language of King Jerome Osório are revealed in a quite exquisite manner. The political thinker, the well informed biblical exegete, the Christian moralist and even the mystic ally themselves happily in a work in which, making use of the relative freedom that the paraphrastic genre granted him and on the suggestion of the passionate and sometimes overwhelmed expression of the psalms texts, the Author can spread himself and give free course to his most intimate feelings and thoughts, in a work that also has the particularity of being the most extensive of all those that are entirely his work.

Opera Omnia. Tome II. Manuel Pimenta, S. J.

2020-06-02T13:34:14+00:00

In this 2nd volume of the Opera Omnia by Manuel Pimenta all the poetic compositions that we were able to gather from this forgotten Latin vate, with the exception of those that were more or less restricted knowledge of some scholars and were collected in the posthumous volume of the Poemata, published in Coimbra in 1622, thanks to the diligence of their confreres of the Society of Jesus, and which constitute the entire content of volume I of this series, released in November 2016, also in Coimbra. As promised in the General Introduction that we preface to this book, the poems that now see the light of advertising, with the transcription of its original Latin face and its version for vernacular, come both from printed and manuscript sources, but these are a very loose majority. As for the former, we have nothing to add to what was then written there and we think that the genuineness of their texts and certainty in their attribution do not raise any doubts, with the possible exception of the brief laudatory poem consecrated to Philip III of Portugal, which can be read in p. 373 of Anacephalaeoses, which either does not belong to Pimenta, or had initially another addressee, since that monarch was crowned in 1621 and, even more decisive fact, was born on April 8th 1605, that is, two years after our Author's death.

The Ordeals of Interpretation

2020-06-02T14:50:43+00:00

Ordeals of Interpretation analyzes medieval ordeals, the reading of data in the polygraph and some methods of torture, while reading texts like Hamlet and Macbeth. This book describes the ambition for a touchstone that demonstrates the veracity, or authenticity, of certain entities. Note that touchstone - basanos - was a term used to denominate the stone with which the quality of gold was tested in commercial contexts, but which also designated the idea of testing, torture and torturing. For the interpreters mentioned in this book, the touchstone, which can be an object, a person or a test, would have the ability to help us distinguish friends from enemies, to identify the quality of some verses and to illuminate the truth. It is argued, however, that the ability to make precise judgements derives from a technical understanding of interpretation led by skilful individuals, noting that the ability to discover "the truth" depends on each examiner's skill, intuition, ability to learn a specific method or technique, to detect errors and ask questions (important qualities in the activity of a literary critic).

The commemoration of the dead in the calendar of the living

2020-06-01T16:21:02+00:00

This book presents the study and critical edition of one of the oldest obituaries preserved for a Portuguese collegiate church - the Medieval Obituary of St. Bartholomew of Coimbra. Written on an extraordinarily complex calendar, where all the elements of the calculation of the Catholic liturgical year, the invocation of the main saints, martyrs and confessors of the Church, the ritual orientations of the daily office as well as some profane and superstition elements take place, this document projects us into mental pictures and structures of thought, of living time and religion fundamental to the understanding of Western civilization. In turn, the identification of the deceased to be celebrated daily in the church of São Bartolomeu de Coimbra and the property bequeathed by them, for the maintenance of the funeral ceremonies, allows us to observe that parish, its space and its population, for over two hundred years.

Visions of Light

2020-06-01T17:14:29+00:00

This work brings together various contributions from experts in very diverse areas of knowledge, to discuss the theme 'Light' from various points of view. The subjects gathered in this work come from the areas of Physics, Philosophy, Transcendence, Chemistry, Optics, Literature, History of Sciences, History, Geography, International Relations, Biology, Psychology, Art, Cinema and Photography, Medicine and Museology. The texts partially reflect the contents presented at the interdisciplinary colloquium 'Visões da Luz' held in October 2015, on the occasion of the International Year of Light 2015, under the aegis of III-UC and open to academia and society, to teachers of the Basic and Secondary Education.

Light, Life and Health

2020-06-02T15:35:32+00:00

Light is not an inert physical entity. Omnipresent in Nature, it exerts an essential action on living beings, from the smallest to the most complex, including the humans. All living beings depend on the light for their development and life conservation. According to the spectral composition, the effects of light can be beneficial or harmful. Light regulates confined or systemic biological processes and may be used as a therapeutic tool. Light pollution may cause harmful effects in plants and animals, disturbing the stability of ecosystems. All these aspects are treated in Light, Life and Health, in a scientific, historical and sociocultural approach. Within international context, the work that Portuguese produced to study and disseminate those subjects is exposed and a reference is made to the way the phototherapies have been disseminated and established in Portugal.

Animais do Nosso Mar

2020-05-29T17:08:41+00:00

A Universidade de Coimbra, com mais de 730 anos de história, possui um vasto património acumulado, material e imaterial, que reflete todos os períodos da história e investigação científica em Portugal. O valor universal deste imenso acervo, em particular das coleções biológicas e bibliotecas, convoca a Universidade de Coimbra para
o esforço de o conservar, mas também de o difundir e valorizar.
Na convicção do conhecimento ser de todos e para todos, revemo-nos na certeza de a Ciência Aberta ser indispensável a uma sociedade mais informada e mais consciente do Planeta que habita, contribuindo para a tornar mais humana, mais justa e mais democrática.
As ilustrações aqui reproduzidas foram retiradas de várias obras à guarda da biblioteca do Departamento de Ciências da Vida da Universidade de Coimbra. Foi, assim, também nosso propósito dar a conhecer o rico e amplo acervo da Universidade de Coimbra, bem utilizando os livros para um dos seus fins: a aprendizagem e o gosto pelas ciências.

China Contemporânea

2020-05-29T15:17:37+00:00

The range of themes covered here provide an introduction to the study of contemporary China, from the historical and cultural roots of the Middle Kingdom to the strategies of the five generations of leaders of the People’s Republic of China, with a detailed characterization of its political organization and economic development model. China’s re-emergence in International Relations and recent positioning regarding globalization frames its current geopolitical approach in the relationship with several states and regions. This book aims at guiding the readers’ understanding of China towards the framework of the contemporary international system, presenting its political, economic and social challenges.

Revisiting Vieira in the 21st century

2020-05-25T15:19:18+00:00

"Revisiting Vieira in the 21st Century is a unique and necessary work, consisting of a fundamental set of reflections around ten nuclei, which allow us to visit the master in order to know him better in the light of modern times. And so we find, at each step, the demonstration of the geniality of the speaker and of the man of culture, as well as a constant appeal, which current events cannot forget, regarding the consecration of human dignity. The ten nuclei have a strong analytical and pedagogical sense, allowing us to know and understand a unique source in Portuguese culture: biography, historiography and reception - to integrate ourselves in the life path of the genial author; epistolography and interlocutors - to understand the importance of his intervention; theology and spirituality - to understand the fundamentals of what he tells us; visions of the future: prophetic work - to consider his capacity for anticipation; politics and society - to understand the importance of political commitment, in a time full of uncertainties and threats; sacred oratory and rhetoric: arts, uses and senses - to take care of the creation workshop of the unique artist; literature and art - to continue to scrutinize the enchanting capacity of the craftsman; polemic writings and the vision of the other - to deal with the courage and determination of the intellectual; science and nature - to realize the genuine attraction that he had for knowledge; and pedagogy and didactics - to put ourselves in the position of those who wish to learn the most from Vieira's lesson. ”

Revisiting Vieira in the 21st century

2020-05-25T15:07:36+00:00

"If we revisit Father António Vieira in the 21st century, we inevitably recognize in him the plurality of approaches [...]: first of all, he was (and is) a thinker of our culture and of the politics of his time, developing themes that demarcate what we call his actuality; and it is certainly not banal to trace a sense of actuality evident in those who lived, thought, preached and wrote over three centuries ago. That is so, but it is not just about that. The legacy of Father Antonio Vieira is also projected, until today, in our language, in the imaginary of his great cultists, in the arts and in his presence in the educational system. The texts we can read here attest well to what is said: the image of Vieira in our historiography, the epistolography and his cult, the prophetic work and the questions to which he invites, the audacity of theological thought, the path of life (a path that made this great figure almost a character of fiction, as the cinema confirmed), the political intervention to which he did not dodge, the unparalleled contribution he gave to sacred oratory".

Francisco Dias Gomes

2020-05-14T17:11:56+00:00

This book includes an introduction about the reception of ancient Greek theatre among the members of the Portuguese Arcadia Lusitana in general, to contextualize the production of Francisco Dias Gomes.
It is followed by the edition of two tragedies - Iphigeneia and Electra -, in both cases with a large introduction, mainly foccused on the relation between the two plays from the 18th century and their ancient models.

A certain Mr. Tavares

2020-05-14T13:58:25+00:00

Gonçalo M. Tavares is a writer who thrives on thought. His fiction feeds off a large epistemological debate that finds in Literature a privileged field of experience and observation of the ethical dilemmas in the posthuman world. As a sort of speculative anthropologist, he employs multiple genres to foster a wide debate on the limits of that which is human, its existential scope, its body and subjectivity.
This book focuses on a procedure which Tavares himself claims to make use of, under the influence of Roland Barthes: the procedure of "writing the reading". It consists of trials and errors that sometimes endeavor to imitate the author’s own gesture of writing as an attempt to "write along with" Gonçalo M. Tavares, and sometimes outline the presence of others with whom he shares this this gesture. The essays here comprised seek to measure the intensity of the enstrangement brought on by Tavares’ writing as the cornerstone of a fiction whose telos is to lend some lucidity to the contemporary world while making it spin into absurdity.

COVID-19. Normas de Orientação Clínica - Medicina Dentária

2020-05-11T17:47:50+00:00

Em Dezembro de 2019, o mundo assistiu à emergência de uma zoonose provocada por um novo tipo de Corona vírus o SARS CoV 2. Esta infeção rapidamente evoluiu para uma disseminação pandémica com consequências pesadas em todos os planos civilizacionais. O SARS CoV 2 e a Covid 19 persistem presentemente sem previsões para a sua eliminação, com grande incerteza sobre a sua evolução e extensão quer das consequências sanitárias quer do impacto económico. Desta forma importa desenvolver estratégias que possibilitem o funcionamento das estruturas produtivas, combatendo o congelamento económico e social enquanto consequências absolutamente nefastas no contexto pandémico. A Medicina Dentária, pela sua natureza, nomeadamente a produção de aerossóis, foi classificada como sendo uma atividade no topo do risco de aquisição/disseminação da doença por parte dos profissionais que a exercem. Muitos países suspenderam o exercício de Medicina Dentária como medida preventiva. Importa, pois, agora e na perspetiva de regresso criar mecanismos que permitam o exercício profissional em segurança. No entanto existe uma lacuna extensa sobre a própria definição de segurança no exercício profissional em Medicina Dentária no contexto SARS CoV 2 /Covid 19. O objetivo destas Normas de Orientação Clínica (NOC) foi compilar de forma sistematizada a evidência existente sobre esta temática e conferir a maior robustez possível à decisão clínica no pré per e pós consulta.

Métodos

Para elaboração destas NOC foi utilizada a metodologia Rapid Guidelines on Covid 19 desenvolvida pelo National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (www.NICE.org) inglês. Elencaram-se as perguntas importantes e sem resposta relativas aos momentos da pré, per e pós consulta. A pesquisa bibliográfica foi realizada nas principais bases de dados Medline, NICE, Cochrane, WHO, CDC americano, com recurso aos principais motores de busca, Pubmed, Translating research Into Practice (TRIP) entre outros. Pesquisámos a bibliografia existente sobre SARS CoV 2 e Covid 19 mas também relativa a outras infeções proxi tais como a influenza. Foram contactados autores por e-mail, numa tentativa de encontrar mais artigos e de realizar “snowballing” para ampliar a busca. Estas fontes manuais de pesquisa bibliográfica objetivaram igualmente a deteção de literatura cinzenta não publicada. Não se procedeu a uma avaliação critica formal da literatura, mas foram definidos critérios de inclusão e exclusão de artigos. Este processo foi realizado por dois autores e em caso de empate recorreu-se a um terceiro avaliador. As respostas às perguntas foram enquadradas no nível de evidência subjacente com recurso à escala definida por Perry, DJ, tendo-lhe sido atribuídas uma ação de recomendação adaptada de Kirchoff, P.

Resultados

Foram escrutinados 30 276 resumos com informação potencialmente útil. A partir dessa busca inicial foram apurados 300 artigos de relevo aos quais adicionámos 97 que localizámos recorrendo a pesquisa manual e decorrente do contacto com autores. Desses 397 artigos e uma vez aplicada uma reanálise sumária da qualidade e também verificados os critérios de exclusão restou um lote final de 185 que constituíram a base de evidência a partir da qual a NOC foi construída.

Conclusões

Todas as questões da NOC foram consubstanciadas com um nível de evidência e força de recomendação. No entanto existem grandes disparidades na qualidade da evidência encontrada. Este trabalho possibilita a identificação das lacunas de conhecimento existentes e tem utilidade não apenas na construção de protocolos de segurança para o exercício clínico como também na identificação de áreas a investigar futuramente. Finalmente, trata-se de um instrumento de importância máxima para os diferentes níveis de prevenção da disseminação do SARS-CoV2/Covid 19.

Autores

Fernando Guerra
Médico Dentista
Professor Catedrático da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Diretor do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de
Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8780-9379

António Duarte Mata
Médico Dentista
Professor Catedrático da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade de
Lisboa
Coordenador do LIBPhys-UL Unidade de Investigação-UID/FIS/04559/2013, Faculdade de Medicina Dentária,
Universidade de Lisboa
Investigador Principal do Grupo de Investigação em Bioquímica e Biologia Oral, GIBBO FMDUL
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1474-2681

Alexandra Vinagre
Médica Dentista
Assistente Convidada da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6929-3807

Ana Luísa Costa
Médica Dentista
Professora Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigadora do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4102-1719

Andreia Luís Vieira
Médica Dentista
Assistente Convidada da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade de
Lisboa
Investigadora do Grupo de Investigação em Bioquímica e Biologia Oral, GIBBO FMDUL
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3271-8645

Carlos Falcão
Médico Dentista
Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Fernando Pessoa
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8031-6176

Carlota Duarte de Mendonça
Médica Dentista
Investigadora do Grupo de Investigação em Bioquímica e Biologia Oral, GIBBO FMDUL
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6133-1995

Catarina Chaves
Médica
Assistente Hospitalar de Patologia Clínica
Responsável do Laboratório de Bacteriologia Geral
Serviço de Patologia Clínica, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5728

David Herrera
Médico Odontólogo
Professor da Faculdade de Odontologia da Faculdade Complutense de Madrid
Vice-Decano da Faculdade de Odontologia de Madrid, Espanha
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5554-2777

Isabel Poiares Baptista
Médica Dentista
Professora Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigadora do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4503-5365

Ivan Toro
Médico Dentista
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0437-4152

João Braga
Médico Dentista
Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade do Porto
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0895-1009

João Carlos Ramos
Médico Dentista
Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1965-1092

João Miguel Santos
Médico Dentista
Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2865-9689

João Miguel Silveira
Médico Dentista
Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade de Lisboa
Investigador do LIBPhys-UL Unidade de Investigação-UID/FIS/04559/2013, Faculdade de Medicina Dentária,
Universidade de Lisboa
Investigador do Grupo de Investigação em Bioquímica e Biologia Oral, GIBBO FMDUL
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9366-0662

João Paulo Tondela
Médico Dentista
Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0787-7713

Paulo Palma
Médico Dentista
Professor Auxiliar Convidado da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-8072

Pedro Nicolau
Médico Dentista
Professor Associado da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7900-4482

Pedro Sousa Gomes
Médico Dentista
Professor Associado da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade do Porto
Investigador do Centro de investigação Bone Lab da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade do Porto
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5365-2123

Ricardo Dias
Médico Dentista
Assistente Convidado da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0824-9754

Salomão Rocha
Médico Dentista
Assistente Convidado da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade
de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5702-333X

Sérgio Matos
Médico Dentista
Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigador do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da
Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2548-4326

Autores | Extensão de Odontopediatria

Ana Luísa Costa
Médica Dentista
Professora Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
Investigadora do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Ciências Dentárias da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4102-1719

Ana Margarida Esteves
Médica Dentista
Assistente Convidada da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8522-983X

Bárbara Cunha
Médica Dentista
Assistente Convidada da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9660-1393

Daniela Soares
Médica Dentista
Assistente Convidada da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6841-3990

Joana Leonor Pereira
Médica Dentista
Assistente Convidada da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4669-8999

Sara Rosa
Médica Dentista
Assistente Convidada da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3582-2808

Teresa Xavier
Médica Dentista
Assistente Convidada da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1695-5496

Autores | Extensão de Ortodontia

Francisco do Vale
Médico Dentista Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra Investigador do CIROS, FMUC Diretor do Instituto de Ortodontia da FMUC Coordenador do Mestrado Integrado em Medicina Dentária da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2615-2929

Luísa Maló
Médica Dentista Professora Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra Investigadora do CIROS, FMUC Instituto de Ortodontia, FMUC
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9218-8001

Sónia Alves Pereira
Médica Dentista Professora Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra Investigadora do CIROS, FMUC
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2409-5748

History of Ancient Rome. Vol II Empire and Hispanic Romanity

2020-04-22T10:18:00+00:00

The volume covers a broad temporal spectrum, ranging from Augustus to the end of the Western Roman Empire, an organized sequence chronologically following dynasties, statesmen, crises and times of transition, culminating in the deposition of the last emperor and in vain recapture attempts by Justinian. It approaches cultural values and identity elements that have shaped Europe, in what respects historical legacy, institutions, values, and also a gallery of "illustrious men". Besides political history, stand out other aspects that give shape to societies and to the city, across manifestations of culture visible in such fields as literature, playful elements, armies, and the economy.

O Étimo Perdido

2020-04-21T16:33:48+00:00

Nunca os pobres foram tão desgraçadamente pobres, nem os ricos tão despudoradamente ricos. Nunca os trabalhadores foram tão mal tratados, nem os desempregados tão denegridos. Vivemos uma situação de absoluta precariedade social, cívica e laboral. Não há pudor nem vergonha nem um assomo de solidariedade por parte dos que têm obrigação de governar com justiça e prover aos mais carenciados. Querem desmantelar o Estado Social, destruir o Serviço Nacional de Saúde e apagar os direitos fundamentais […] Cabe aos políticos sérios que ainda resistem aos interesses instalados e às seduções da vanglória, especialmente à esquerda, mas também aos que sobrevivem nos partidos da direita democrática, derrubar o muro que encobre o Sol e deixar que ele ilumine de novo a palavra-chave que abre as portas do futuro e fecunda os direitos fundamentais e a Constituição da República: a Solidariedade […]

Metodologia do Direito

2020-04-16T14:07:49+00:00

Um manual universitário deve ser, na perspectiva do autor, um texto de investigação que assuma a complexidade problemática do seu específico objecto temático, e o explicite comunicativamente sem disfarçar a mencionada complexidade. Razão por que, ainda para o autor, um manual merecedor do referido qualificativo não deverá reduzir-se a versão escrita de prelecções, perfilando-se antes como horizonte reflexivo que estas últimas intencionam e que cientificamente as fundamenta e pedagogicamente as legitima. O guião que ora se publicita traduz uma experiência lectiva de duas décadas. E inscreve-se numa compreensão normativa e prática da Metodologia do Direito (procurando, por isso mesmo, apurar, em dialéctica correlatividade, o necessariamente instável equilíbrio possível entre os pólos implicados pela aludida compreensão – um, relevante do dogmaticamente densificando sentido da normatividade jurídica vigente; o outro, centrado nos casos jurídicos concretos que continuamente o interpelam e reconstituem), que se pode dizer a marca-de-contraste, na matéria, da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, e que vem sendo multimodamente puncionada por muitos dos seus mais ilustres Professores, sobretudo por aqueles que tantas vezes inovadoramente a pensaram na sua obra e a projectaram no seu ensino.

Rainha Santa Isabel

2020-04-06T11:33:09+00:00

A veneração e o culto da Rainha Santa Isabel, em Portugal, desenvolveram-se logo após a sua morte, que ocorreu em 1336, e ficaram registados em relatos cronísticos, hagiográficos, biográficos e notariais, entre outros, que reuniram abundante informação sobre a sua vida e milagres. Pedro Perpinhão, religioso da Companhia de Jesus que trabalhou, como professor, orador e investigador, em Portugal, entre os anos de 1551 e 1561, escreveu em latim uma biografia da Rainha Santa Isabel de Portugal, De Vita et Moribus Beatae Elisabethae Lusitaniae Reginae, que era a primeira nesta língua e a mais completa composta até então. Para ela, consultou todas aquelas fontes medievais portuguesas e utilizou-as de forma exaustiva e imparcial, num esforço claro de ser completamente fiel à verdade histórica; nela reúne todo o conhecimento da época sobre Santa Isabel, passados mais de dois séculos após a sua morte.

Studies in Historical Linguistics

2020-04-28T09:22:08+00:00

This book contains a set of different works unified by a common theme and by a common analysis approach: historical linguistics and the processes of linguistic change and standardisation.
The volume combines two types of contributions, providing contact with research directions and research projects being conducted in different parts of the world. Some texts discuss theoretical and methodological subjects currently considered in linguistic studies, particularly in the field of historical linguistics. Other chapters aim to study the change of linguistic structures and linguistic usages. In these cases, detailed analysis of empirical and diversified data is provided. Finally, some contributions of this volume take codificatory work over Portuguese as corpus. Such data supports research on the knowledge of the ancient language and provides the researcher with relevant elements for the comprehension and clarification of the standardisation processes, a phenomenon that usually accompanies the elaboration of languages.

(I)mobilities in Prehistory

2020-05-11T11:23:41+00:00

(I) Mobilities in Prehistory. People, resources, objects, sites and territories is the result of the acknowledgement of human mobility as a central subject in archaeological research. It presents itself as a book with a plural and broad range, showcasing several contributions with distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches, multiple empirical case studies and different geographies across a large time span.
This holistic and integrated framework is the one that is required to analyse mobility, a complex and multidimensional phenomenon of undeniable importance for the understanding of the dynamics that shaped past communities and their relations, not only between themselves, but also with the territory - dynamics that take shape in artefacts and structures, in built and lived landscapes bestowed to the passage of time.
More than a contribution about a subject that explores divergent paths, this book intends, as well, to challenge other investigators to push forward a theme full of potential and relevance in a world that is now, more than ever before, in motion.

Lições de Ginecologia

2020-04-21T11:02:49+00:00

O livro Lições de Ginecologia é uma obra que pretende, em primeiro lugar, oferecer uma bibliografia adequada ao ensino da Ginecologia nas Faculdades de Medicina. Desta forma, tem como objetivo principal a abordagem dos temas ginecológicos de uma forma simples e didática, mas simultaneamente de espetro muito alargado e abrangente, oferecendo uma visão completa e integrativa, de sequência lógica, das matérias referentes à saúde da mulher. A aquisição pelos jovens estudantes de uma visão prática e clínica das doenças ginecológicas, do diagnóstico à terapêutica, foi preocupação constante e primordial dos diversos autores.
Os alunos de Medicina constituem, portanto, o alvo principal desta obra. No entanto, dado que este livro foi baseado na bibliografia obrigatória para a Prova Nacional de Acesso (PNA) torna-se, também, num importante e valioso instrumento de estudo para o exame de acesso à especialidade.
Um dos principais objetivos que presidiu à redação dos diversos capítulos foi, precisamente, a vertente pedagógica e didática, a forma simples de apresentar matérias complexas, sendo de salientar o extraordinário valor das imagens nele vertidas, quer sob a forma de ilustrações criadas exclusivamente para o efeito, quer as fotografias originais e informativas obtidas no Serviço de Ginecologia do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra. Associadamente, as numerosas tabelas, algoritmos e esquemas contribuem para a fácil e rápida compreensão dos diversos quadros clínicos.

Post-traumatic stress disorder

2020-11-09T15:18:52+00:00

Angola experienced a civil war for almost thirty years. Men, women and children were the direct or indirect victims of this war. Many were traumatized. This book presents studies done with children, civilians and the military, giving a clear perspective on the psychological effects of the war in Angola. With the end of the war in 2002, there is a progressive decrease in the prevalence and the degree of symptomatology of PTSD. However, there are still many people affected by the war and the resulting destruction of family and social structures.
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Dynamics of the Character

2020-05-11T14:09:21+00:00

This work brings together the production of researchers integrated in the project "Figures of Fiction", as well as other papers on the theme of this issue: "Dynamics of the Character". This theme focus on reflections on the transliterary vitality of the character and the movements of refiguration that it motivates. Therefore, the work concerns the literature, in several times and narrative genres, the cinema, the arts, the television, the publicity, the media speeches and the videogames, stressing the dynamism of the character, as a key category of the narrative

Writing of Oneself

2020-05-11T13:42:08+00:00

This book, which comprises four different parts, divided into eighteen chapters, puts forward an analysis drawing both from philosophy and from literary hermeneutics. Its guiding thread are the creative or «poietic» processes through which the «self» forms and transforms itself as a configuration of symbols and a work of language, in the laboratory of (auto)biographic memory and imagination. The book sheds light on the open, exploratory and experimental character of literature in general and of the experiences of writing and narrating in particular. But it also emphasizes the elusive, unstable and perhaps never fully graspable trait of these experiences in a first person perspective. In the book, the processes of subjectivity and identity (personal or collective) are explored and the mechanisms for interpreting life and world are investigated.

Portuguese and European Humanism

2020-04-22T11:25:30+00:00

The result of a collaboration between the Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon and the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jerónimo Osório, the book Portuguese and European Humanism. On the 5th centenary of Cicero Lusitanus: Don Jerónimo Osório (1515-1580) brings together the studies of several collaborators from different European universities.
In addition to the analysis of the life and work of the Portuguese humanist, namely his literary, historiographic and epistolary production, as well as the treatises on moral and political philosophy and commentaries on biblical texts, this volume also aims to offer an overview of the European Renaissance rooted in the study and reading of classical authors at the time of Jerónimo Osório.

Meaning in the Flow of Time

2020-05-11T16:29:11+00:00

This volume brings together a series of articles on the Classical Tradition, Humanism and the Renaissance that stand for the scientific work developed by the author throughout her activity as a researcher and Full Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. This edition was organized on the occasion of the end of her teaching career, and is divided into two major themes – Theatre, and History of Ideas. Each article follows the bibliographical references of the publication in which it was previously edited.

Coimbra Aristotelian Jesuit Course

2020-05-27T14:09:23+00:00

Under the title ‘Parva Naturalia’ this Aristotelian text knew an unusual international diffusion; among all the Commentaries on the ‘Parva Naturalia’ stands the Coimbra Commentary (16th Century), written by Manuel de Góis, as a part of the widely known Jesuit Coimbra Commentaries. Indeed, they soon spread throughout European Universities and Colleges and even arrived to South American territories, as well as China, thanks to its several Chinese translations or adaptations published as soon as the 17th Century

Classics on Stage Yesterday and Today

2020-04-24T15:18:25+00:00

This volume, “Classics on stage yesterday and today” offers a valuable set of works about classical theater. It studies old works and also their reception and their presence in contemporary scenes of a significant number of countries. We can learn about some aspects of the greek tragedy and latin comedy, from structural elements to the analysis of characters or cultural features, but also its constant presence in modern stages and its exuberant vitality as seed for new works that appear continously in modern literatures

Separação e colaboração do Estado e da Igreja no tempo de Salazar

2020-06-01T17:54:57+00:00

Based on the unfinished investigations of Luís Oliveira Andrade, who died in 2005, Luís Reis Torgal published in the University of Coimbra Press in 2012 (two editions), in co-authorship and in his honour, the book Holidays in Portugal. Times of memory and sociability. He never abandoned the theme, and in 2018 presented in Bologna, at the annual colloquium promoted by REFAT (Network for the Study of Fascisms, Authoritarianisms, Totalitarianisms and Transitions to Democracy), this time entitled Fascism, Chiese and Religioni, the communication "The case of holidays in the context of the Concordat between the New State and the Holy See". The fruitful dialogue he had then with other researchers, among them Paula Borges Santos, who presented as his doctoral thesis, guided by Fernando Rosas, the study The Second Separation. The religious politics of the New State (1933-1974), published in 2016, led him to write a long text, which he then summarized in a shorter one, to be published in the minutes of the meeting in Italy. However, he understood that the first text he wrote should not be lost, and so he proposed to publish the present work, entitled Separation and Collaboration of State and Church at the time of Salazar. The case of holidays, which he considered a kind of "third edition" of the work of co-authorship Holidays in Portugal, which the author now dedicates to Luís Oliveira Andrade. In fact, the holiday theme was a "discovery" by Luís Andrade and is one of the most curious in the broader issue of the relations between the State and the Church that is now fundamentally addressed in Salazar's time, although not losing sight (quite the contrary) of the time that runs from 1910 to 2016 and even, in a way, to the present day. Moreover, the annexes transcribe the main documents on the subject. It will be seen that the question of the secularity of holidays was not abandoned by the Salazar State until 1948 and, above all, in 1952, under pressure from some Catholic politicians, with the Patriarch of Lisbon, Cardinal Cerejeira at the head. The 1940 Concordat marked the change in direction of "fascism to the Portuguese" (as the author calls the Estado Novo), although the process of fighting for the Catholicization of the state obviously preceded and was politically exploited by Salazar.

Under the lens of Open Science: Views from Portugal, Spain and Brazil

2021-02-02T14:58:32+00:00

Open Science is leaving a deep imprint on the communication of science that takes place today. This work aims to discuss some aspects of Open Science as an umbrella term, and how researchers envisage it in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil. We address the cycles of production, dissemination, and evaluation of science. This moving target ranges between the parameters that correspond to current and traditional views while anticipating the future enable by digital technology.

Violência e abuso

2020-04-16T10:23:40+00:00

A violência, na qual se inclui o abuso, constitui um grave problema social e de saúde pública, com relevantes prejuízos para as vítimas, suas famílias e sociedade. Importa, por isso, que toda a sociedade esteja informada sobre esta problemática e sobre as estratégias e soluções para identificar, tratar e prevenir este tipo de vitimização.

A presente publicação tem como objetivo dar resposta, num formato simples, a dúvidas frequentes sobre este assunto, contribuindo para criar uma maior sensibilização e atenção face à existência destes casos, bem como para promover a capacidade de cada um para os identificar e orientar adequadamente, tendo em vista um pronto e correto diagnóstico e, logo, a mais rápida proteção e tratamento das vítimas, e a prevenção da sua vitimização secundária e da perpetuação da violência.

Note-se, contudo, que esta é uma questão deveras complexa e envolvendo riscos, pelo que uma intervenção individual não substituirá, nunca, uma intervenção profissional especializada.

Mozambique. Material Culture Aspects

2020-06-29T15:37:33+00:00

The exhibition “Mozambique: Aspects of Material Culture”, as referred to in this catalog, is part of the activities of the 5th Week of African Culture, which over the last four years has been carrying out scientific-cultural actions, including which several ethnographic exhibitions. Through the exposed copies, witnessing of the material culture of a people, have if- you a vision, even partial, of their values transmitted over several generations.
Common and utilitarian objects such as benches, chairs, pots, pans, pipes, combs, etc., are adorned with attractive decorative motifs, giving them originality, beauty and a sense of spiritual comfort, indispensable to the well-being of the user in the environment your daily life. A very old and common culture is basketry and matting, which plays an extremely utilitarian role, targeting multiple sectors: agriculture, fishing, trade, storage and drying of products and for domestic use. A wide variety of raw materials are available: palm leaf strips, baobab bark, pineapple or sisal leaf fibers, grass varieties and other plant products. The interweaving of these results in materials design skilled and ingenious demonstrated by the different techniques and models. Basketwork techniques vary between the technique of interlocking, interlacing and the spiral technique, but there are other auxiliaries of various kinds. Geometric and colorful designs give this art of weaving an imprint of remarkable beauty. (Baskets Macondes: n.rs 10, 11 and 12). […] [MARIA DO ROSÁRIO RODRIGUES MARTINS]

The Diatribes of Epictet, book I

2020-04-24T13:34:03+00:00

Epictet, stoic philosopher of the 1st century C.E., was the slave of Epaphroditus, an imperial secretary of Nero and Domitian. Despite his condition, he was able to attend the classes of Musônio Rufo. Later, after his release, he founded a school in Rome, which did not last long, since Domitian expelled the philosophers from the city in 89 C.E. Epictet then went to Nicopolis, where he founded another stoic school, with many students, among them important figures of the Roman Empire. Like Socrates, Epictet wrote nothing. His philosophy came to us through the notes of his disciple Lucio Flavio Arriano Xenophon, who recorded the teachings of Epictet in eight books, four of which were lost, which composed the Diatribes of Epictet. The work is prefaced by a letter from Arriano to a certain Lucius Gelius, in which Arriano affirms that the Diatribes are nothing more than transcriptions of the lessons of Epictet. That is the reason why the work has been attributed since antiquity to Epictet.

Manual do Cuidador

2020-04-16T10:41:33+00:00

O Manual do Cuidador para um "Envelhecimento Ativo e Saudável - Orientações para melhor gestão na Saúde e na Doença", encontra-se dividido em 6 módulos: O cuidador - que papel desempenha; O cuidar do outro (conhecimento estruturante); Os pilares interdisciplinares (médico, cuidador e tecnologia); O cuidador - o que deve saber sobre a saúde e os direitos do idoso; Cuidar também de si e terminamos com a partilha de Histórias de vida (experiências de cuidadores). Os temas destacam a interdisciplinaridade necessária ao conhecimento do processo de envelhecimento, que possibilitam uma formação completa nesta área realçando a importância do indivíduo, da sociedade, das escolhas de estilo de vida e da compreensão do envelhecimento no contexto biológico, psicológico e de saúde para a otimização do percurso de vida que proporciona estratégias de prevenção da fragilidade, do declínio físico e cognitivo. A aquisição de competências na comunicação entre serviços clínicos integrados, cuidadores e profissionais de saúde e, no módulo do cuidador, o conhecimento de como ajudar a tratar o idoso com alteração da mobilidade, acamamento, diabetes, défice cognitivo/demência, patologia crónica, dor, desnutrição e perturbações do sono, são objetivos que pretendemos atingir.

Chancelaria de D. Dinis Livro III | Volume I

2020-06-08T15:25:16+00:00

O livro III da Chancelaria de D. Dinis é um dos mais importantes, e de tipologia temática mais diversificada, no conjunto dos seis livros que a compõem (com a ressalva de que o livro V é um tombo e o livro VI, uma cópia do anterior). Deve ter ocupado inicialmente o quarto lugar na seriação dos livros da Chancelaria. Por motivos que desconhecemos, passou entretanto para o terceiro, trocando de posição com o actual livro IV (antigo livro III), que é de facto aquele que vem na continuidade dos dois primeiros, do ponto de vista temático e cronológico. O presente livro contém no seu corpus 871 documentos de tipologia variada (não entrando neste cômputo os documentos transcritos no corpo doutros), antecedidos de uma rubrica a vermelho. Incidem principalmente em doações de bens e/ou direitos da coroa, confirmações de foros, usos e costumes de vários lugares, coutamentos ou demarcações de terras coutadas, contendas, forais, instituição de feiras, legitimações de filhos naturais (ou notícias de cartas de legitimação), permutas e concordatas firmadas entre D. Dinis e o clero, no tocante a jurisdições, aposentadorias e outros assuntos. O seu estudo é fundamental para um aprofundamento das reformas administrativas, económicas, sociais e judiciais levadas a cabo por este monarca durante o seu longo reinado, com vista ao progresso e à modernização da nação.

Chancelaria de D. Dinis Livro III | Volume II

2020-06-08T15:35:18+00:00

Recovered Voices, Newfound Questions

2020-05-11T15:28:20+00:00

The book aims at presenting less known or completly unknown family archives. It proposes to question them and to analyze them under new perspectives (both from history and archival science), in order to found the "voices" if its producers - and thus to develop new research questions. It comprises three parts: "Recovering, reconstructing and (re)discovering family and personal archives"; "From a social, political and cultural history of the families to a social history of the archives"; "Public preservation and promotion of family and personal archives".

Mixed Catastrophes

2020-06-29T11:06:45+00:00

The mixed risks, of environmental component, are associated with a potentially hazardous phenomenon with combined causes, that is, for its manifestation compete natural conditions and anthropic actions. In this book, more than a dozen risks are analyzed, which are part of two main typologies: the mixed risks of atmospheric component, mainly associated with changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere, and the mixed risks of geodynamic component, which relate to forces and processes that act on the Earth (internal geodynamics, for example the risk of induced seismicity, and external geodynamics, with emphasis on the risks of erosion, desertification, salinisation, pollution and forest fires). In all risk typologies, here we analyzed, the contribution of the human being, through its actions and activities, constitutes a common element, extending, unambiguously, its causes and consequences. Therefore, all authors are unanimous about the need to implement integrated measures and actions to safeguard the main natural resources.

Green Christmas - 30 years of Postcards by Jorge Paiva

2020-07-31T14:40:48+00:00

Green Christmas - 30 years of Postcards by Jorge Paiva, book organized by the Exploratório - Centro Ciência Viva of Coimbra, in partnership with the Order of Biologists and Coimbra University Press, brings together the collection of Christmas postcards that Jorge Paiva, bologist and tireless activist in defense of biodiversity and the environment, has been publishing and distributing worldwide since 1990. “Enjoy the beauty of postcards, read carefully and learn from their messages.” [José Matos] "His message reached many thousands of people, students, teachers, readers and made many feel that they could, like him, contribute to “saving the planet””. [Paulo Renato Trincão] “This edition is a very valid tool in the educational work and the collective deepening of civic awareness […]”. [Luís Simões da Silva]

"Each postcard tells a story of biodiversity in a different way, but always with relevance and challenge, urging us to act." Helena Freitas

Discourse Markers in/and Translation II

2020-06-09T15:23:06+00:00

This volume includes some of the contributions from renowned experts to the 3rd and 4th International Colloquium MarDisT held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra in 2017 and 2018. The contributions address different languages, theoretical perspectives, genres of text, translation problems, and difficulties in SLA. Discourse markers are however the common denominator. The wide range of issues covered will certainly inspire further research projects.

Houses, patrimony, civilization. Nomos versus physis in Greek Thought

2020-04-23T13:43:10+00:00

This study about two concepts wants to recuperate, under a literary and philosophic perspective, the famous antithesis originated in Classical Athens, and transfered through the occidental cultures along the centuries. Therefore, retaking the arguments of past discussions, nómos versus phýsis are considered in their process of transmission and reception.

Portugal, Spain and the Atlantic - I

2020-06-30T09:09:16+00:00

In this work we try to make an approach to the shared history between two brothers countries and not always friends such as Portugal and Spain and the atlantic projection that has presided over much of its historical evolution and is also an essential part of its contemporary foreign policy. A dialogue that also acquires different nuances, since the same concept of atlanticity has different connotations for Spain and Portugal. From these various perspectives, Spain and Portugal continue to have an important mission in the challenges in today's world as interlocutors and transmission belts between different global spaces. This historical evolution and the new challenges of the atlantic world are intended to be addressed in the texts of the authors presented to them in this dossier and that address very diverse historical periods from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

Visitors from beyond the Grave

2020-04-24T14:28:11+00:00

The monograph deal with the topic of ghosts in universal literature from a polyhedral perspective, making use of different perspectives, all of which highlight the resilience of these figures from the very beginning of literature up to the present day. Therefore, the aim of this volume is to focus on how ghosts have been translated and transformed over the years within literature written in the following languages: Classical Greek and Latin, Spanish, Italian, and English.

Plutarch. On the eating of flesh

2020-04-22T09:03:34+00:00

The treatise De esu carnium (On eating of flesh) came to us in the form of two logoi, with multiple lacunae, especially in the second logos. By recovering themes already developed by the Pythagorean doctrine, by Xenocrates, by Theophrastus or by the Stoics, Plutarch argues about the nature of living beings, within the scope of the relationship between man and animal. Like other treatises of the corpus plutarcheum, such as Bruta animalia ratione uti (The animals are rational), better known as Gryllus, or De sollertia animalium (On the intelligence of animals), the narrative is developed around questions related to the nature and psychology of animals, such as the possibility that virtue and reason exist in them. Plutarch defends the philanthropy and the generosity with which all living beings should be treated, thus opposing simple utilitarianism or the problematic principle of necessity. Being one of the zoological treatises, De esu carnium is also a rhetorical text, because Plutarch constructs, in opposition to the Stoics, an argumentative theory that supports the idea that eating meat is para physin (‘against nature’).

Figures of wise men, figures of philosophers in the work of Plutarch

2020-04-24T14:53:07+00:00

The texts gathered here invite usto approach the work of Plutarch according to thechosen prism: they portray different “figures” accordingto six sections, whichare obviously not without some relations with each other, but whichalso strive when possible todistinguish between“wise” and “philosopher”: wisdom and types ofSages; “mythical” figures; the Sage and the politician; figures of philosophers; exemplary figures “in context”; representations and new readings.

Plutarco. Parallel Lives – Alexander and Caesar

2020-04-22T08:28:21+00:00

Plutarch distinguishes Alexander king of Macedonia as a genius in military art and diplomacy to consolidate his power. During his life, just a little more than 30 years, the young king changed the political and cultural map of his time: he put a large European, African, and Asiatic space under his authority, promoted an intercultural globalisation to unify a multiplicity of peoples as a huge empire, and transferred the intellectual centre of the world from Athens to other oriental cities. But an unmeasured ambition harmed all his project and even its author’s life. By pairing Caesar with Alexander, Plutarch brings out the fame of a great conqueror, the aspect of personality that the biographer most admires in this Roman statesman. But the ambition (philotimia) that repeatedly moves Caesar represents the black side that will lead him to the death, before he can reap the fruits of his eagerness. Although not completely transforming Caesar into a cruel tyrant (which he was not), this Life illustrates, however, a criticism of the exacerbated and irrational ambition of power.

Problems of Hellenistic Historiography

2020-04-24T14:00:23+00:00

Some of the texts gathered in this book were produced for the international event "Hellenistic Historiography: new theoretical-methodological approaches", held at DLCV / FFLCH / USP and MAE / USP between September 15 and 16, 2016. Both the event and the book problematize by their formats, the very notion of "Hellenism" in which they are based: both take it in the broad chronological sense as proposed by Droysen in the Vorrede of 1836, that is, a period of antiquity which would extend approximately from the death of Alexander in 323 BC until the founding of Constantinople in 330.

The Coimbra Jesuit Aristotelian Course

2020-05-28T09:39:20+00:00

Between 1592 and 1606, four jesuit professors from the College of Coimbra published a course of Aristotelian Philosophy, known by the title Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Jesu. Given its intrinsic value, he eventually knew a global influence: from the Atlantic to the Urals, the Far East and Latin America. Also some eminent philosophers (e.g. Descartes or Peirce) were readers of the work of Coimbra but, due to the numerous editions that the work met abroad, its overwhelming presence in the european university libraries, has determined the study of philosophy by thousands of students. Written in an accessible language, this monograph aims to give an updated, systematic and rigorous perspective of the main themes addressed in the work Coimbra – logic, physics, psychology, ethics and metaphysics – for the first time presented as «an exposition of philosophical science in a systematic, deductive and disputational form».

As Luzes do Príncipe

2020-07-06T15:05:10+00:00

By creating this comic, Living Science joins the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the expeditions to the island of Príncipe in São Tomé e Príncipe, and Sobral, in Brazil, which allowed proof of the theory of General Relativity previously predicted by Albert Einstein. This comic will be disseminated and distributed on a large scale and aims to the presentation of the theory of General Relativity, using language understandable throughout the public. In addition, it is intended that the general public be able to value the expeditions made to Island of Príncipe and Sobral by astronomers portrayed here.

Doutoramento Honoris Causa

2020-07-10T10:43:02+00:00

His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed alQasimi is a fascinating character and the author of an extensive body of work spanning such different fields as those of History, Political Geography, Cartography, Literature, and Theatre. For several decades, he has developed work in the fields of education, culture, and humanitarian aid throughout the world, contributing to the establishment of a peaceful and open-minded dialogue between different civilizations. Thus, in recognition of his work and following the example set by many other European, American, and Asian universities, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra proposed awarding him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa.

Works of Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira VIII: Reception of classical sources in Portugal

2020-07-01T15:06:45+00:00

These are ten volumes, grouped by subjects, works of the author published over more than six decades. The Vol. VIII fits thirty-nine articles on the Reception of classical sources in Portugal, from a general appreciation (Portugal and the Classical Heritage) even considerations about The situation of the literary translator, as well as two studies on Hellenisms.

Life of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2017-2018)

2020-06-30T11:16:23+00:00

From the school year of 2012/2013, all the information that was part of the "Life of the Faculty" section, of Biblos Journal has an autonomous existence in digital format. Because it is considered relevant to preserve this memory and because it is understood that it should not integrate a scientific journal, this publication is created to the party, accessible to the internal and external public, which is hosted on theFaculty of Arts and Humanities website and on the University Press platforms. In this volume, information about the school year of 2017/2018 is gathered.

Media: Power, Representation and Epistemologies

2020-07-02T16:04:26+00:00

Inspired by the work of Isabel Ferin da Cunha and her applied research axes, researches and professors provide their contribution to the advancement of communication sciences. This book is shaped into three forms of dialogues: reflexive and theoretical, empirical and personal tributes.

Classical Studies IV

2020-07-07T09:32:22+00:00

Considering the growing academic interest in the understanding of classical studies and the Western tradition in its various forms and expressions, this book brings together the research work developed within the 1st Specialization Course in Classical Studies, carried out in the form of distance learning (EAD) by the UNESCO Archai Chair at the University of Brasilia, with the aim of confronting the student with the classical world and its riches. In the human sciences, in particular, when the confrontation with the past is proposed, it is often necessary to redefine not only the importance of the classics, but also to mark the extension and limits of the list that includes those who should be considered the capital authors of a certain field, in a constant movement of reconstruction. The formation of new researchers in the area of Antiquity means the consolidation of an area that is understood as necessarily interdisciplinary. With this work we hope to present to the public part of this work developed by the UNESCO Archai Chair in terms of training new researchers and defining an open and plural field of research.

Arquitetura, Política e Saúde

2020-07-07T11:11:51+00:00

Bissaya Barreto, a very interventionist, persevering and multifaceted surgeon, established in Coimbra, over the course of almost five decades, sought to reconcile his two main activities (medicine and politics), with the promotion of a remarkable set of hospital and care facilities in the Central Region of the country.
Not being an Architect, he was endowed with a strong artistic sensibility allied to the technical component, constantly seeking information and grounds - aesthetic, theoretical and programmatic - both in publications of the specialty and in study trips that he made to countries such as Spain, Germany, France and Switzerland.
Taking into account several factors, Bissaya Barreto's action was singular and paradigmatic, revealing his thought linked to Architecture an excellent thread, in the analysis of several fields of study of the Portuguese 20th century.
In this book, where architecture is the central element, there are also fundamental questions to understand the whole of the object under study, so that various aspects are also approached and discussed with another breadth: politics - from republicanism, to freemasonry, to the action of a deputy, to the relationship with Salazar and the New State; regionalism and its intervention as President of district and provincial bodies; social medicine, hygiene, panoptism, work, discipline, vigilance, biopower and eugenics; the relationships established between doctors, promoters, politicians, architects, engineers, builders; the teaching and its concern with training, from nursery school to university; the propaganda associated with pamphlets, magazines, books and films; the pedagogy and psychology of children; the notions of tradition and modernity, of art and technique. All these points, among others, drew the three sides of the triangle where Bissaya Barreto based his project of society: Architecture, Politics and Health.
Thus, focusing on the health program works he promoted during the Estado Novo, a regime with which he maintained privileged relations through his leader, Salazar, we propose a critical and longitudinal approach to the way in which Architecture participated in the regional health-political project idealized and implemented by this doctor.
Finally, given the extensive network of buildings created between 1929 and 1974, which included several Sanatoriums and Antitubercular Preventions, a Leprosarium, Psychiatric Hospitals and Agricultural Colonies...

De volta à Viagem

2020-07-06T14:42:35+00:00

A viagem, outra vez a viagem, será assim tão importante a viagem? O que é que distingue as viagens dos arquitectos das viagens do turismo massificado? No presente, todas, ou quase todas, as escolas de arquitectura se preocupam com o significado pedagógico da viagem, incentivam-na, instituem processos de a concretizar. É consensual, creio. A força desse consenso não se encerra somente na possibilidade de contacto directo com os espaços outros, como lhes chama Foucault. Traz consigo o reconhecimento do valor de uma predisposição para a limpeza da alma, do rito purificador da estrada, o Let's forgive de Kerouac. Nós, os arquitectos, vamos interpretar aquilo que nos fascina com a alma límpida da alienação quotidiana. E desenhar.

Ancient History: Interdisciplinary Approaches

2020-11-18T16:58:59+00:00

The study of Ancient History is a process encompassing several fields of knowledge, various methods, several types of sources, sometimes including comparisons with other civilizations of antiquity or from other periods. Historiographical texts raise a methodical criticism which comprehend data from archaeology, but also from literature and, within this range, theatre, rhetoric, dialogues and specific treaties of the several disciplines. As a reflection of such a multidisciplinarity, this volume compiles a series of texts in which Ancient History dialogs with other subject areas, namely: hermeneutics, literature and arts, political rhetoric, philosophy, religion and reception of Ancient History in modernity.

Ancient History: Interdisciplinary Approaches

2020-11-19T10:32:42+00:00

A expressão das emoções I LED – viagem ao interior num computador

2020-07-06T14:48:20+00:00

This volume brings together the texts A expressão das emoções (2014) and LED - Viagem ao interior num computador (2006), two pieces inspired by scientific themes, written and staged by Mario Montenegro. In both cases we are dealing with a writing that experiments and opens paths in the dialogue between art and science, in the first case, speculating on the classification of human emotions, which was first rehearsed by physiologists and naturalists of the nineteenth century; in the second case, calling the inner workings of a digital computer, an apparatus that emerged from the twentieth century and redefined the boundaries of human experience. The process of creation involved collaboration between researchers and artists, confirming the unique place that both the author and the company Marionet occupy in Portugal in the field of scientific theater.

O meu país é o que o mar não quer and other plays

2020-07-06T14:15:51+00:00

This volume brings together plays created and performed by Casa da Esquina, under the direction of Ricardo Correia: O meu país é o que o mar não quer, Republicário, Exílio(s) 61-74 and a self-titled Manual de Criação de uma Comissão de Inquérito, a kind of theatrical manifesto that helps to understand, to a great extent, how the plays were created and produced. The theatrical genre of the first and third plays is documentary theatre: the first on the most recent wave of emigration from this country and the second on the exiles between 61 and 74, especially in the context of the colonial war. It is a theatre based on the investigation of documents about historical events or dramaturgical thematic nuclei, listening to the voices and testimonies of those who lived the events, the interweaving of memories and expectations of a people exiled from themselves in the disconcerting of time. In the play Republicario, distant voices resound like those of Plato, Thomas More or Campanella's utopias: the names that are not names, the origins that are lost in the distance and even the protagonist who symbolizes the vehicle of knowledge in its historical vicissitudes, as a memorial evocation of the republic and democracy in the diagnosis of its absence.

Se eu vivesse tu morrias and other texts

2020-07-02T15:24:02+00:00

Moving the chronology a bit, it is possible to trace with these pieces by Miguel Castro Caldas (MCC) a narrative arc of conjugality: the first steps of a couple in the epilogue of The Killers (2011), the marriage proposal in Coal On Canvas (2012), infidelity in the Restoration of Conjugal Society (2010), life with children in Wilderness (2016), again infidelity in If I lived you would die (2016), loneliness (widowhood?). ) of I don't usually talk to you (2017).
Why this interest in the institution of marriage? Perhaps it is precisely because it is such a conventional situation that even subversion (or betrayal) is commonplace: from "boy meets girl" to "happily ever after" or not at all, between getting married and getting tired, this is a tired subject from which all variations have been experienced. [...] Marriage is a narrative formula that MCC uses less to dismantle its ideology than to dispense with the need for a narrative itself-and so use time in another way.
MCC's writing practices a certain disrespect for institutions, starting with its own writing.

The Coimbra Jesuit Aristotelian Course

2020-05-28T14:43:10+00:00

Letters to an environmental Santa Claus

2020-07-02T13:04:08+00:00

Contemporary issues such as those that refer to concepts of natural reference point, sustainability or on the anthropic impact on environmental variables need, more than ever, a prudent and reasoned approach. Too often in too many contexts, the excited and "tremendous" reading of natural events has led to media scaremongering and social and political manipulation of communities at different scales.

Advances in Forest Fire Research

2020-06-30T15:11:35+00:00

In spite of all the efforts from the governments and the operational agencies, and the contribution from the scientific and technical communities, the impact of forest fires persists and, at least in some regions, even with an increasing trend. The tragic fires of Portugal in 2017 and of Greece in 2018, with unprecedented numbers of fatalities among the civil population in modern times, drive our attention to the fact that what is at stake in forest fires is not only the natural environment, the climate, the landscape, the economy or the ecology. In these and in other episodes from the recent years, all over the World, forest fires have threatened the safety and wellbeing of people and have shown how capable they are of destroying the greatest value that we have to protect, that of human life.

Law of energy efficiency

2020-07-07T15:23:36+00:00

If we want to define this Law of Energy Efficiency in a few words, we must characterize it as comprehensive and complex. Our objective was to integrate in a single volume the analysis of all the legal-sectorial areas that are currently covered by the programming of energy efficiency policies and therefore the final result is comprehensive. We have sought to achieve this goal by bringing together not only diverse scientific contributions, but also different visions, experiences and understandings of what it is, what it can be and what it is expected to be more this specialization of the "new administrative law". With this we want to alert the reader to the fact that we are dealing with texts that not only represent different competences and different professional experiences, but also different world views, because the concern was not limited to seeking complementarities between academics and professionals in the sector, but also between generations. This project has thus made it possible to combine the scientific value, which is now common knowledge, with an immaterial corpus that underlies the warp of these pages.

Discourse Markers in/and Translation

2020-06-09T16:15:51+00:00

This volume gathers, among others, the works presented at the 1st and 2nd MarDisT Colloquia (MarDisT and MarDisT 2), which took place at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra in 2015 and 2016, with the participation of international experts in the area. The works compiled here cover different languages, different theoretical perspectives, different textual genres, translation problems, and L2/LE learning problems, with discourse markers as the common denominator. We hope that the diversity of reflections will arouse interest in the area and encourage further research.

Manual of Qualitative Research in Education (3rd edition)

2020-06-30T14:29:30+00:00

This Manual is part of a pedagogy that considers the initiation of research as a fundamental element of the teaching/learning process, determining the motivation of students and, at the same time, ensuring the renewal of knowledge and the discovery of answers to the challenges and questions of the future. We can point out as the first intention, to raise in the reader an effective understanding of the nature, objectives, methods and results of qualitative research, through sufficient, rigorous, updated and critical information. In this sense, we do not fail to place the reader, albeit briefly and introductively, before the epistemological foundations that underlie an option for qualitative research. And since our proposal is aimed, in particular, at research into the educational phenomenon, we also wanted to start from a complex view of this same phenomenon. Finally, we have invested in the construction of a text that will help its readers to commit themselves to a research process of a qualitative nature, through the design of a research plan appropriate to the problem formulated (in terms of general strategy, data collection and analysis techniques), and that shows concern for its validation and the ethical aspects at stake.

My herbarium of medicinal plants

2020-07-02T09:28:48+00:00

Herbariums are collections of preserved dried plants that document and testify to their identity. They represent reference collections with many and varied functions, including identification, research and teaching. This book aims to teach in a simple way how to prepare herbarium specimens of medicinal plants. This will teach techniques of harvesting, drying, pressing, assembling and organization. Twenty species of medicinal plants commonly used in Portugal are presented. Each one is accompanied by an illustration to help in its identification and also information on various aspects of the plant. There is also a space reserved for the reader to be able to stick a herbarium specimen of each plant.

The influence of Os Lusíadas de Camões in the Spanish epic (1578-1627)

2020-07-02T10:03:12+00:00

The imitation of consecrated authors was a common practice in the 16th and 17th centuries, defended in the poetics of the time, whose authors marked the quality of a poet by his ability to imitate and overcome literary models. It is along these lines that the present work analyses a corpus of texts from a comparative and intertextual perspective that seeks to determine the influence of Os Lusíadas, by Camões, on the Castilian cult epic produced between 1578 and 1627, including great writers such as Alonso de Ercilla or Lope de Vega. The similarities between the texts are fundamental to understand the importance of Camões in Spain and allow, through a categorization of imitative modalities, to establish the evolution of some literary themes or motifs.

Time, mythos and praxis

2020-06-30T15:32:28+00:00

The author of this volume travels through a reflective itinerary on the experiences of time lived and human action, represented and represented in the narrative mythos. The hermeneutic dialogue between Paul Ricoeur (Temps et Récit) and Aristotle (Poética) served as a support for this itinerary, Ricoeur having started from the aporias of Augustinian meditation on time.

The Rules of the Santa Clara Rule. 16th Century Codex

2020-06-29T16:13:08+00:00

This book intends, first of all, to publish an illuminated codex from the 16th century, long kept at the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra. It contains, in Portuguese, the Rule of Santa Clara of Pope Urban IV copied by the Dominican Diogo de Leiria. It probably belonged to the Convent of Santa Clara of Coimbra. The entire construction of the object, about 500 years old, is accompanied from the supporting material to the cover of the binding. The illuminated, as one can understand, a special approach. Of the rules, we tried to highlight the enclosure, the silence and the eating habits.

Mommy, Why Am I a Bird?

2020-06-29T14:49:59+00:00

A bird, curious, asks her mother why she's a bird. Together they talk about possible reasons and come to an exciting conclusion. This book was written during the course of scientific research for the degree of Master by Anne Marie Wells, under the title "Exploration and development of education in early childhood ecology", carried out as part of the European Master in Applied Ecology (EMAE), in a partnership between the Faculty of Science and Technology, the Centre for Functional Ecology, and the Kindergarten of the Social Action Services of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), under the guidance of Professor José Paulo Sousa and Dr Anabela Marisa Azul.

Portuguese in Australia

2020-05-29T14:20:40+00:00

In 2007 the British journalist Peter Trickett published a book in Australia in which he attributed the discovery of Australia to the Portuguese Cristovão de Mendonça, during the first half of the 16th century. In the 1970s, there was a heated debate amongst historians about the possible discovery of Australia by the Portuguese, but the matter remained dormant for some decades until the book Beyond Capricorn was published in Portugal in 2008, describing how the Portuguese discovered and secretly mapped the coast of Australia and New Zealand 250 years before the arrival of Captain Cook. Trickett’s book has since been translated into Portuguese. This book gathers some of the contributions from the conference The Portuguese in Australia, which brought specialists from various areas together to discuss the subject under the auspices of the University of Coimbra Science Museum.

Parallel lives: Demosthenes and Cicero

2020-07-07T14:29:11+00:00

The name Demosthenes occupies a top place in the history of oratory art. The quality and vigour of his eloquence were recognised even by his contemporary adversaries, but it was the sages of Alexandria who, between the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C., gave him a prominent place in the canon of the ten attic speakers, thus enabling future generations to study his work and imitate his style. In fact, Demosthenes' discourses were part of the corpus of model texts which, throughout the Helenistic Epoch, gave a higher level of training to students of rhetoric. Cicero, educated, as any cultured man of the time, by the moulds of the Hellenistic paideia, had him as a model and considered him the most excellent speaker in all oratory genres; and the author of the Treaty of the Sublime, probably of the following century, points him out as the paradigm of the highest prose, placing him above the speakers of all times.

Parallel lives: Alcibiades and Coriolano

2020-07-07T14:42:20+00:00

By putting Alcibiades and Coriolano's biographical journey in parallel, Plutarch chose two figures, one Greek, the other Roman, from historical contexts not very similar. Alcibiades belongs to the context of a democracy in crisis, in a Helad on the eve of launching itself into the widespread civil war or already involved in it - the Peloponnese War - in which even the old Persian enemy was seen as a possible ally to help weaken the opposing Greek faction. Coriolano, for his part, belongs to the early days of the Republic in a pre-Hellenic Rome. The figure of the former has clear historical outlines, while the figure of the latter blurs history and legendary outlines. Both were orphaned too early in childhood, distinguishing Alcibiades by the refinement of their education. But to that refined paideia corresponds a chameleonic capacity (the image is of Plutarch) of adaptation to circumstances, while Coriolano, in its hardness and intransigence, shows, in the negative, traces of the ancestral profile of the Roman. The undeniable courage of both was not always put at the service of the homeland. Poorly understood or resentful of their fellow citizens, both came to represent a threat to their respective homelands, allying themselves, respectively with Spartans or Persians, or with the Volsces, to gain survival or revenge.

Plutarch and the arts

2020-07-07T15:01:00+00:00

This book does justice to Plutarch himself, so sensitive to the fine arts in his descriptions and reflections, and also opens up new perspectives for future philologists. Iconographic approaches to Plutarch's work in the style presented here fill with hope those of us who are committed to sowing the seeds of classical culture in a society as needy of it as that of our Alexandrian bourgeoisie in the 21st century. I can assure you that Luisa, Paulo and Nuno have been able to transmit that illusion to us.

Ciências da educação

2020-04-27T16:17:11+00:00

The specificity of the educational field is known, partly because of the ease with which plans are mixed, and it is at the mercy of light analyses and biased conclusions. For these reasons we have tried to pass, as a key idea, a concept and image of Education as a central and structuring phenomenon, both on a personal level (essential in the training of each human being) and on a social level (socialization and cohesion). The implications of this centrality are of all order and in all domains, even in the way all knowledge originates, is structured and develops. Indeed, the epistemological problem is one of the central themes in Educational Sciences, as a field of study, analysis and research. It is in this perspective that this work is developed. In the first part we seek to clarify the nature and evolution of the concepts of science, truth and method; the most important contributions throughout the history of thought to this clarification, and the interaction that is established between the three concepts in the production and evaluation of scientific knowledge. In the second, we analyze the epistemological specificity of the human sciences, and try to understand their effort of autonomization from the dominant positivism. In the third part we develop, in a problematizing way, the particular epistemology of the Educational Sciences, based on the specificity of the educational field and the centrality of the concept of Education. It is on this basis that the identity of the Educational Sciences is defined, that they are distinct from the other Human Sciences, and that their multi-referentiality is legitimated. Finally, we have sought to promote a reflection on the place and character of research that has as its object the "educational process", in the framework of contemporary thought around the nature of scientific production in general and the Human Sciences in particular. We also wanted to offer the reader a set of conceptual tools that allow him/her to have a critical attitude based on the multiplicity of discourses that take "Education" as a pretext.