IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1716: The Imaginary of Portuguese Empire in Iberian Music and Theatre
Thursday 10 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Organisers: | Edmar Checon de Freitas, Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro Lenora Pinto Mendes, Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
| Moderator/Chair: | Viviane Azevedo de Jesus, Departamento de História, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
| Paper 1716-a | The Fetes of Power: The Relations of the Monarchs of Avis with the Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 1716-b | The Music of Iberian Empires (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Performance Arts - General |
| Abstract | There are many faces in which are presented political ideas of Empire in Portuguese Late Middle Ages. The utopia of Christianity union around a Portugal that could embrace East and West is strongly present in the construction of the arts and in the relations of the Luso Kingdom with the rest of Europe. The court of the kings of Avis in the late 15th century and the first decades of the 16th century supports under a myriad of forms the imaginary of an Empire of learned and predestined men, in which lies a great mission of Christianity. The Portuguese Empire is seen in the arts and fetes as the embodiment of all these ideals. |