On November 10th, at 15 pm, the Loulé Municipal Archive hosts the conference “Commitments, solidarities and governance behaviors in the Medieval Algarve”, presented by Maria de Fátima Button.
In the Algarve, the medieval universe shapes the vulnerability of human existence, deprivations and weaknesses, in the regulation of ways of being, interacting and governing cities and municipalities.
Each municipality laid down a set of rules, in order to ensure the rights and duties of the population, security, justice, work, activities, leisure, supply, price control, and in dispute with extrinsic entities, the your enjoyment. In a frizzy and difficult labor world, the constraints posed by commitments to the community, to which each one was obliged, such as a Loulé handcraft, coerced into the transport and sale of fish, in 1403, among other cases, were not rare. that you can refer to.
The articulation of the councils with the respective rural spaces, and with the national one to which they belonged, traced, in turn, the commitments with the other regional urban structures. None could dispense with the fusion of synergies to react to institutional, financial or economic decisions that harmed their own rights and interests; this fusion of efforts was especially important, when vessels that docked in one or another port bringing the basic cereal, forced, as exchange currency, large amounts of figs or raisins that, individually, each municipality could not arrange.
Thus, they cooperated in the name of an ideal “harmony”, in a network of sharing and solidarity, opportunely evoked, when the association of forces became decisive.
Maria de Fatima Button é PhD in History, with distinction and praise, from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, she has divided her professional activities between teaching and research, being an Integrated Researcher at the CEH of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Marked by the guidance and influence of historians such as AH de Oliveira Marques and Iria Gonçalves, she began early, as a student, her research activities on the Algarve in the medieval period. Since then, his works have confirmed a special interest in the medieval history of the region, as well as in the Didactics of History, often seeking to combine historical perspectives with its pedagogical operation, reflecting this fact in his studies on Citizenship or on Regional and Local History.
She is the author of several books and articles, and may, among others, cite Silves, the capital of a Medieval Kingdom (CMS), The Charter of Porches (Focus Algarve Publisher), The Charter of Loulé.1504 (CML/Kaleidoscope), Particularities of the Manor Regime in the Algarve Medievo. Towards a Pedagogical Approach to Local History (APH), “Science and Didactics of History. Some Reflections"(in The Teaching of History, APH), Conflicts of Power and Citizenship Practices in Medieval Silves (AEDPHCS), among others.
your last job, The Construction of an Urban Identity in the Medieval Algarve. The Case of Loulé (CML/Kaleidoscope) achieved, in 2010, the first distinction in the Almeida Fernandes award, the only one in the country to honor works on Portuguese Medieval History.
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