A monarquia portuguesa na obra de Alexandre Herculano

Abstract

The research The Portuguese Monarchy in Alexandre Herculano s work analyses the building of the monarch s ideal model (by Alexandre Herculano) especially focusing on the historical production on which the Portuguese monarchs were detailedly portrayed and discerningly analysed. Considering the Portuguese historical conjuncture marked not only by the establishment of the Liberal State but also by the debates among the different political groups in which the intellectual s partaking is relevant. Concerning Alexandre Herculano, the author s involvement in several debates and political articulations is an evidence of the intelligentsia s outstanding role in the Portuguese society of the nineteenth century. Along with the historical context in which Herculano s work was produced, the conceptual universe created by the author reasoned on theoretical and political assumptions was also considered because the monarch s model built by the author was created from this universe of concepts that, according to the theoretical assumptions used in this research, act and expand their sphere of influence towards the contemporary debates to his work.