Objective The project P.S. proposes to build up a campaign of systematic collection, edition and historical-linguistic study of personal letters written in the Early Modern Ages (17th to early 19th century) in Portugal and Spain. The documents in question are original epistolary writings made by servants, children, wives, lovers, thieves, soldiers, artisans, priests, political fighters, and many other types of social agents whose paths were crossed by the prosecuting ways of the Inquisition and the civil courts, two institutions that used to seize personal correspondence as instrumental proof. Since the documents are accompanied by the ‘sociological interviews’ carried out by inquisitors and judges, they allow researchers a well-contextualized study of traditional communities in their inter-personal modes of relation. The sources’ texts contain very frequently an (almost) oral rhetoric through which emotions were expressed, commonsense was stated, non-orthodox beliefs were confessed and trivial incidents were narrated. Until now, it has been difficult to discover more than thin samples of this Early Modern ‘popular’ discourse. The P.S. project will not only assemble a large collection of it, but it will also match its philological treatment – an online digital edition following Textual Criticism standards – with the cultural and linguistic study of its contents. Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-AG-SH5 - ERC Advanced Grant - Cultures and cultural production Call for proposal ERC-2011-ADG_20110406 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Coordinator Faculdade de letras da Universidade de Lisboa Address Alameda da reitoria (cidade universitaria) 1600-214 Lisboa Portugal See on map Region Continente Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Principal investigator Maria Rita Braga Marquilhas (Prof.) Administrative Contact Márcia Lameirinhas (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 1 815 857,00 Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Faculdade de letras da Universidade de Lisboa Portugal EU contribution € 1 815 857,00 Address Alameda da reitoria (cidade universitaria) 1600-214 Lisboa See on map Region Continente Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Principal investigator Maria Rita Braga Marquilhas (Prof.) Administrative Contact Márcia Lameirinhas (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA Participation ended Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Alameda da universidade - cidade universitária 1649 004 Lisboa See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Márcia Lameirinhas (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
