Ana T Valdez
Brown University, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor In Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and History
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, History Department, Saab-Pedroso and Luso-American Foundation Visiting Assistant Professor in Portuguese Studies
Ana Valdez (PhD History, 2008, University of Lisbon) is a Principal Investigator at the Centre for History of the University of Lisboa, where she is the PI of the project CEECIND/00139/2017. She was an academic visitor in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford working with Professor Howard Hotson in his programmes ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ and EMLO until September 2019. In the past, she was an Assistant Researcher at CIDEHUS through an IF Starting Grant. Earlier in her career, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, under the supervision of Professor Carlos Eire, and has taught at Brown University, Columbia University, Yale University, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her research focuses on apocalyptic movements and literature, and on the intellectual, cultural, and religious history of the early modern Iberian world, with a focus on the history of the Portuguese Atlantic and the Iberian imperial ideologies. She is currently exploring the circulation of eschatological ideas within the space of the Atlantic, and on how Catholics, Jews, and Protestants engaged in an “interreligious” dialogue leading to expressions of religious tolerance while promoting the creation and development of intellectual networks. In addition, she is analysing the correspondence between eschatological networks and the so-called "religious terrorism" of the 21st century. She has published widely on apocalyptic literature and imperial ideology in the Iberian world, and in particular on the opus magnum of the Portuguese Jesuit António Vieira, the unfinished, Clavis prophetarum. Her publications include "Historical Interpretations of the "Fifth Empire": The Dynamics of Periodization from Daniel to António Vieira, SJ" (Brill, 2011). She is also the co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed series The Iberian Religious World, published by Brill.
Supervisors: John J. Collins, Carlos M. N. Eire, José A. Ramos, and Hermenegildo Fernandes
Address: Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Letras
Alameda da Universidade
1600-214 Lisbon
Portugal
Supervisors: John J. Collins, Carlos M. N. Eire, José A. Ramos, and Hermenegildo Fernandes
Address: Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Letras
Alameda da Universidade
1600-214 Lisbon
Portugal
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is an introduction to the vast and complex phenomena of prophecy and vision in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. This book is dedicated to the study of the millenarian and messianic movements in the early modern Iberian world, and it is one of the first collections of essays on the subject to be published in English. The ten chapters range from the analysis of Mesoamerican and South American indigenous prophetical beliefs to the intellectual history of the Luso-Brazilian Jesuit Antônio Vieira and his project of a Fifth Empire, passing through new approaches to the long-lasting Sebastianist belief and its political implications.
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This article introduces the recently discovered partial manuscript of the clavis Prophetarum found at St. Bonaventure University in the “Franciscan” Collection, ms. 28 and compares it with the two main existing manuscripts: biblioteca casanatense ms. 706 and arquivo Nacional da torre do tombo (aNtt), conselho Geral do santo ofício, ms. 122. This study will analyze more deeply how Vieira understood the concept of “invincible ignorance of God,” taking into consideration the differences in content in the St. Bonaventure, Franciscan Institute, ms. 28 compared to the other two manuscripts.
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is an introduction to the vast and complex phenomena of prophecy and vision in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. This book is dedicated to the study of the millenarian and messianic movements in the early modern Iberian world, and it is one of the first collections of essays on the subject to be published in English. The ten chapters range from the analysis of Mesoamerican and South American indigenous prophetical beliefs to the intellectual history of the Luso-Brazilian Jesuit Antônio Vieira and his project of a Fifth Empire, passing through new approaches to the long-lasting Sebastianist belief and its political implications.
This article introduces the recently discovered partial manuscript of the clavis Prophetarum found at St. Bonaventure University in the “Franciscan” Collection, ms. 28 and compares it with the two main existing manuscripts: biblioteca casanatense ms. 706 and arquivo Nacional da torre do tombo (aNtt), conselho Geral do santo ofício, ms. 122. This study will analyze more deeply how Vieira understood the concept of “invincible ignorance of God,” taking into consideration the differences in content in the St. Bonaventure, Franciscan Institute, ms. 28 compared to the other two manuscripts.