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History is made with Documents
This first number of the magazine TAVILLA looks at aspects of the History of Tavira in the 15th and 16th centuries. This is an edition prepared by the students of Languages and Humanities Course, attending the 11th grade, C1 class, under the subject of History, for the European Erasmus + Programme, Connect Your Learning project, in partnership with the ESJAC Library. It intends to be a project with different characteristics, on local history, always starting from the sources, and without losing the references and its integration in our National History.
The 15th and 16th centuries were, in fact, a period of great growth and strategic importance of the city of Tavira, hence we have taken the option for this period. It was, however, in the second half of 15th century that the pirates’ attacks began on the Algarve coast, responsible, among others, for the decadence of the city, in particular, and for the ruralisation of the Algarve, in general.
It was on these topics that the students’ attention was focused on, on a reality that, although, in a distant time, is close to them, in an initiation into how History is reconstructed from the sources.
The Golden Century of Tavira
5 Hurrah to the city of Tavira
7 Tavira County on Fire
The Nuns Bernardas
9 The first and the last nunnery of Algarve
11 Life behind the walls of the Convent of the 'Bernardas'
Patronage by King D. Manuel I
13 People from Tavira receive an income to study abroad at the king's behest
Piracy Begins
15 The Pirate raids and the Nuns Panic
17 Hospital of Tavira rejects injured people
The King's Justice
19 The King punishes murderers from Tavira
21 The immunity of the Church
23 Forgiveness granted by the King
25 Conversion to the Catholic Church and the grant of forgiveness
Privilege Letters
27 Privileges for the residents of Tavira
29 The King Honours Rui Martins
About the Title of this magazine
TAVILLA - Name of the city Tavira in a letter of liberation of a prisoner in which the church's immunity was not respected by King Manuel I, on 29/0471956
IANTT, PT/TT/CSSML/M02/000013, retrieved on March 3, 2018 from https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/details?id=6083702