A. H. de Oliveira Marques (1933-2007): Historiography and Citizenship

When António Henrique Rodrigo de Oliveira Marques passed away on 24 January 2007, one of the key names in Portuguese historiography in the second half of the twentieth century disappeared, the author who had, above all, been jointly responsible for the emergence of what can best be described as the `first modernity of the Middle Ages’ and, at the same time, for his renowned studies of the First Republic.