TY - JOUR
T1 - Politics and power relations in Portugal (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries)
AU - Cardim, Pedro
PY - 1993/1/1
Y1 - 1993/1/1
N2 - This article surveys the work of the last decade or so on politics, government and representation in early-modern Portugal. Traditional views of a ‘precocious’ absolutism are shown to have been modified by a newer understanding of political power as plural and dispersed. Underlying this perception has been the study of ‘political culture’ conceived as a deep and wideranging grammar of political discourse expressed not only in the formal and symbolic, but also in the informal and less ‘visible’ aspects of political behaviour. A final section discusses the new, revisionist historiography of the Cortes, with its de-mythification of the medieval assembly and the rehabilitation of the early-modern Cortes as a ritual manifestation of the bond between king and kingdom.
AB - This article surveys the work of the last decade or so on politics, government and representation in early-modern Portugal. Traditional views of a ‘precocious’ absolutism are shown to have been modified by a newer understanding of political power as plural and dispersed. Underlying this perception has been the study of ‘political culture’ conceived as a deep and wideranging grammar of political discourse expressed not only in the formal and symbolic, but also in the informal and less ‘visible’ aspects of political behaviour. A final section discusses the new, revisionist historiography of the Cortes, with its de-mythification of the medieval assembly and the rehabilitation of the early-modern Cortes as a ritual manifestation of the bond between king and kingdom.
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U2 - 10.1080/02606755.1993.9525836
DO - 10.1080/02606755.1993.9525836
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84950636589
VL - 13
SP - 95
EP - 108
JO - Parliaments, Estates and Representation
JF - Parliaments, Estates and Representation
SN - 0260-6755
IS - 2
ER -