Volume 12, Number 2, December 2014

ARTICLES

Graça Almeida Borges

The Iberian Union and the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1600-1625: Ormuz and the Persian Gulf in the Global Politics of the Hispanic Monarchy

Victor Luiz Alvares Oliveira

Illegitimate Children and High Society Families in Portuguese America Social Hierarchies: Rio de Janeiro, Eighteenth Century

SURVEYS AND DEBATES

Maria Cristina Pimenta

A. H. de Oliveira Marques: Medieval Views

Luis Adão da Fonseca

Vitorino Magalhães Godinho

BOOK REVIEWS

Alberto Luiz Schneider

Glezer, Raquel and Guimarães, Lucia Maria Paschoal (orgs.). Varnhagen no Caleidoscópio. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Miguel de Cervantes, 2013, ISBN 9788564868045.

Thomas Horst

Bernecker, Walther L. and Klaus Herbers. Geschichte Portugals. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013, ISBN: 978-3-17-020662-5.

Alexander Ponsen

Marcocci, Giuseppe. A consciência de um império: Portugal e o seu mundo (Sécs. XV-XVII). Coimbra: Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2012, ISBN: 978-989-26-0132-8.

OBITUARY

Alice Cunha

José Medeiros Ferreira, an undisputable reference in European Studies in Portugal

Pedro Aires Oliveira

A freeborn Azorean who chronicled Portugal’s contemporary politics