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The first Portuguese mendicant churches, such as São Domingos in Elvas (Alentejo), Santa Clara and São Francisco in Santarém (v.), Generally have a three-nave plan, divided into five bays, a protruding transept and a scalar head composed of five chapels…
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In their architecture there are formulas directly inspired by the great pilgrimage churches (naves of the Sé Velha in Coimbra), influences coming from Normandy (Sé in Lisbon and lantern of the Sé in Coimbra), from Limousin (first phase of the…
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The Cistercians, who entered Portugal around 1144, settled for the first time in the monastery of São João de Tarouca (Beira Alta), directly dependent on Clairvaux, similarly to the subsequent foundations of Lafões and Salzedas (Beira Alta; Cocheril, 1966; Real,…
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The decorative elements of São Pedro in Balsemão (Beira Alta) have recently been related to those of Lourosa, moving their chronology back to the 10th century. 10th (Ferreira de Almeida, 1986). In Beja (Mus. Rainha D. Leonor, Mus. Regional), in…
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European state, with its capital Lisbon, located in the western part of the Iberian Peninsula. Inhabited before the Roman conquest by populations of Iberian stock and culture such as the Lusitani, the Vettoni and the Calleci, the region corresponding to…
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The leader is always Agustina Bessa Luis (b.1922), who in 1954, with the memorial novel A Sibila, had given a thematic and formal turning point to Portuguese fiction and who will continue until today her torrential production of almost Balzacchian wealth…
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However, it would be misleading to present a picture of the literary reality (and not only) of a country only by stylistic waves, or by generations, or by geographic areas, or by ideological currents, without having in mind the specific…
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According to Ezinesports, the Eighties and the first two years of the Nineties represent for the Portugal a period of great artistic and literary fervor. With the “ carnation revolution ” of April 1974, the long Salazarist parenthesis ended and…
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In this dialect we find – õu ⟨- one, for example, melõu “melon” (lit. melão), cf. the port. arc. – om. In the 2nd person plur. of the present indicative we have in the 1st con. – aides, for example, andaides (lit. – ais, but see arch. – adhes); in the 2nd…
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Between the intervocalic consonants – d – and – l – they fall; e.g., fide> fee > fé ; teda> teia ; pelagu> pego ; pain> dôr, etc.; e – n – nasalizes the previous vowel and in some cases disappears (luna> l ũ a > lua); also – g – middle intervocalic often falls, especially if followed by e, or i,…
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