Edição de crónicas e relatos sobre D. Sebastião: balanço e perspetivas
Edition of Chronicles and Narratives about King D. Sebastião of Portugal: Current State and Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The study of the 16th and 17th century Portuguese historiography is still lacunary, since specialists tend to consider only printed sources, disregarding manuscripts, and often produce poor quality editions. Bearing this in mind, in this paper, we analyze an area in which these problems are particularly evident –the 16th and 17th century Portuguese historiography about King D. Sebastião. Noticing, after the completion of a thorough research, the lack of a comprehensive synthesis on this subject, we have determined to define a corpus of historiographic texts about this king, based on internal criteria, and to analyze the current state of their editions, emphasizing several gaps regarding the methodologies used and the results achieved so far. We also intend to present the project “Sebástica manuscrita”, which aims at filling these gaps, and some of the results we have obtained – namely the discovery and identification of new narratives about King D. Sebastião and the systematization of already known data.

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