Citcem – serie

The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas between 1400 and 1700. In this book, the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption are key subjects for understanding the place of practical knowledge in early modern European society. After a historiographical and theoretical approach, this book applies Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome metaphor to art technological literature. The first part ends with a study about medical practitioners and mediators who disseminate practical knowledge through the printing press. The second part of the book is entirely dedicated to the booklet A Very Proper Treatise (1573), using a microhistory approach to study it.

Este volume debate o tema da construção de identidade(s), numa época em que fronteiras e globalização coexistem. Ao longo de onze capítulos, a questão é discutida de um ponto de vista pluridisciplinar, com abordagens provenientes do campo da ciência política, da história, dos estudos culturais, da geo-historiografia, dos estudos literários, da teoria e da didática da literatura, bem como da sociologia. O livro inclui uma segunda parte consagrada ao 2.º centenário das invasões francesas no norte de Portugal. Focando processos, personalidades e locais relevantes da História e da Cultura, esta obra procura ser um contributo cientificamente inovador, de leitura proveitosa tanto para especialistas, como para o grande público.

In the first part theoretical questions on the fictionalisation of reality are discussed. In the second part, the author studies national myths, from the importance they can have in regard to the general opinion held of the other to the way in which the literary text has modified national History. In the third and fourth parts novels by José Saramago and Lídia Jorge are analysed.