Ideologies of Enlightenment

20 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Absolutism as a politcal theory and praxis.

Exploration of excerpts of Bossuet,  Politics drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scritpture: the traditional, medieval arguments together with the new rationalist perspective. 

Ideologies of the Enlightenment: Absolutism.

18 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Absolutism in  France under Louis XIII and his prime-minister, Cardinal Richelieu: the centralisation of power with the support of the church and the subjugation of nobility. Louis XIV's reign as the highest point of absolutism practice. Versailles as the symbol of royal absolute power.

Jean Bodin, Common Wealth - the foundation of absolutism as the dominant ideology.

More's Utopia

13 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Thonas More's Utopia: the acknowledgment of the emerging urban way of living against the traditional agricultural economic system.

The defense of ecumenism together with the essential need of beleif in transcendental values.Utopia as a new literary genre: main characteristics.

Tudor England and More's Utopia

11 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The social portrait of England according to More's literary  persona, Raphael Hithloday. Poverty and its causes:the problem of land ownership and the enclosures movement; the justice system and death penalty; religious (in)tolerance.Utopia as the imagined alternative community.

Renaissance and Reformation

6 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The Reformation theological and ecclesiastical background. Luther's Theses. Calvin's theology and its impact on daily economic activities.The Tudor dynasty and the Reformation: its political causes - internal and external. 
Reformation and English national identity: from Henry VIII's schism decision to Mary Tudor's Catholic revival and Elizabeth0s foundation of the Anglican Chur h.