The SHARE meetings are bi-monthly seminars created, coordinated, and held by doctoral students enrolled in the third cycle of studies in history, archaeology and geography of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho / Lab2PT. Besides being an opportunity for doctorate students to meet, each session enables a doctoral student to present the progress of their research and receive contributions from their peers.

 

SHARE.ICS #18 Mafalda Lopes | The widows of Porto: patrimony, business, and family (1700-1832)

 

Abstract:

This study aims to constitute a first approach to the issue of widowhood in Portugal in the Modern Period. In this sense, the objective is to contribute to the study of gender and family history, and understand what impact widowhood had on the lives of women and men in the city of Porto. With widows as its main focus, this study aims to understand how their social status, the existence of properties, children or family and neighborhood solidarity, influenced the way they dealt with widowhood, and whether this meant maintaining their standard of living or, at the same time, On the contrary, it led to a change in their social, family and economic structures. This project therefore aims to identify the participation of widows and widowers in the different universes of everyday life, from their relationship with their family to their relationship with business and the Empire.

 

Biography:

Ana Mafalda Pereira Lopes has a degree in History (2014) and a master’s degree in History (2017) from the University of Minho. In 2024, he completed his doctorate in History at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, with the thesis entitled “The widows of Porto: heritage, business and family (1700-1832)”, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology in within the scope of the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in History (PIUDHist). Currently, her main specialization is Modern History, namely social and economic history, and gender and family history.

 

 

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Image: View of the city of Porto, from Torre de Marca to Fontainhas, http://purl.pt/13546