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O Porto e a construção dos navios de Vasco da Gama

Oligarquia política e elite económica no Porto dos séculos XV e XVI

This essay aims to point out the major differences and conflicts amongst mercantile elites in Porto during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period. The main focus falls on describing the economic dynamics as well as the political and social setting of the time, with special emphasis placed on the environment of hostility resulting from the arrival of new merchants in Porto. The supremacy ...

O Porto, o monopólio do sal e a estruturação da economia mercantil : séculos XI...

São Pedro de Miragaia : uma confraria de gentes do mar do Porto no século XV

Vida de marinheiro : aspectos quotidianos das gentes de mar nos séculos XV e XVI

Merchants, ports and hinterlands : the building of sea-port structures in the E...

Emerging in the Middle Ages, Porto became one of the most important ports of the Iberian Peninsula. The city’s affirmation over the nearby territory was accompanied by the expansion of business towards the northern markets of Flanders, Brabant, Great Britain and northern France (Brittany and Normandy), stimulating the emergence of a merchant navy, and inspiring a set of engineering works meant to organize the h...

From a natural safe haven to a structures seaport : Porto and the Atlantic system

O negócio atlântico : as redes comerciais portuenses e as novas geografias do t...

This work introduces the part played by the Portuguese Northwest centres in the construction of the Atlantic system due to the international traffic developed from its ports. One discusses here traditional historiographical interpretations, namely in what concerns the amplitude of the trade developed in the beginning of the Early Modern Period by commercial agents who can be positioned outside the Iberian imper...

O porto de Viana e a construção do Cais da Alfândega (1631-1633)

During the Early Modern Period the maritime traffic became a decisive factor for the prosperity of the societies. As noted by James D. Tracy in the introduction to an important book on the organisation of the world’s economy (The political economy of merchant empires), it was necessary to deal “with important changes in the growth and composition of the long distance commerce grosso modo between 1450 and 1750” ...

O grande comércio dos pequenos actores : portuences e bascos na construção do s...