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Portuguese Culture in the Renaissance

Objectives

1. Acquire an adequate perception of Portuguese Culture in the context of the Renaissance, as a common basis for all manifestations of knowledge.

2. Develop critical reading skills, comment and argumentation;

3. Strengthen research, organization, problematization and knowledge transmission skills.

General characterization

Code

01100528

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Cecília Maria Gonçalves Barreira

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  1. Bernardim Ribeiro, Menina e Moça , Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2008;
  2. Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1991;
  3. Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinação. Lisboa: Fundação Oriente/IN-CM, 2010;
  4. Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Poesias. Lisboa: IN-CM, 1987;
  5. Gil Vicente, Coplilaçam de todalas obras. Lisboa:IN-CM, 1984;
  6. Luís de Camões, Lírica Completa. Lisboa:IN-CM , 1986,1994;2002;
  7. Luís de Camões , Os Lusíadas. Lisboa: Instituto Camões, 2000.

Teaching method

Lectures with tudents' participation in problematization of themes discussed. Use of power point and videos.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - Class participation and attendance(20%), Written essay(20%), test(60%)

Subject matter

  1. The political and social situation in Portugal at the end of the 15th and 16th centuries;
  2. Humanism and Renaissance. Main personalities, works and dominant ideas in the European context;
  3. Specificities of Portuguese Humanism and Renaissance. The voyages of discovery as determining factors for the construction of a national identity;
  4. The leading scientists, artists and other Renaissance personalities;
  5. Social life in Portugal during the Renaissance, based on the testimonies of writers and chroniclers;
  6. Camões' work as a synthesis of the Portuguese Renaissance, precursor of new times;
  7. Today's Views of the Renaissance in Portugal.