ADAO DA FONSECA Luis
Professor in Medieval History
President of the Scientific Council, Research Centre for the Study of Population, Economy and Society
CEPESE - University of Porto
Medieval period
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1945, in Lisbon, Luis Ada da Fonseca completed his full education in Portugal.
Luis Adao da Fonseca was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Porto (1968-2003) and
former Vice-rector of Luisada University at Porto (1996-2003).
Professor Adao da Fonseca has also lectured widely on medieval history at leading global education
institutions including the Navarra University in Spain (1975-1981), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales in Paris (1991), the Sao Paulo University (1997) and Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, USA (1998).
Currently, he is President of the Scientific Council of the CEPESE, the Research Centre for the Study
of Population, Economy and Society at the University of Porto. He is conducting research in the areas
of Portuguese Medieval History and Discoveries and Maritime History of Portugal.
Director of the collection Militarium Ordinum Analecta (Porto, since 1997), he is also Editor-in-chief of
the ‘e-Journal of Portuguese History’ (published by University of Porto, Portugal and Brown University,
USA) and member of the Scientific Council of the journals Acta Historica and Archeologica
Medioevalia (Barcelona); Península. Revista de Estudos Ibéricos (Porto); RiMe – Rivista dell’Istituto di
Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea (Cagliari); Lusitania Sacra (Lisbon).
Luis Adao da Fonseca is a Member of the Academy of Portuguese History and of the Maritime
Portuguese Academy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
He has published texts in Portugal, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and
USA.
Books
He published academically several academic books:
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Navegación y corso en el Mediterraneo Occidental. Los Portugueses a mediados del siglo XV,
Pamplona, EUNSA, 1978.
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La Cristiandad Medieval, "Historia Universal EUNSA", vol. 5, Pamplona, EUNSA, 1984.
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O Essencial sobre o Tratado de Windsor, Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional / Casa da Moeda,1986.
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O Essencial sobre Bartolomeu Dias, Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional / Casa da Moeda, 1987.
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Tratado de Tordesilhas e a diplomacia luso-castelhana no século XV, Lisbon, Edições Inapa,
1991. Bulgarian edition, Sofia, 1993.
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Portugal entre dos mares, Madrid, Editorial Mapfre, 1993.
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Atlântico: a memória de um Oceano. Vol. 1 - Do Imaginário do Atlântico ao Atlântico
Imaginado (edition with JOSÉ ADRIANO DE CARVALHO), Oporto, Banco Português do
Atlântico, 1993
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Corpus Documental del Tratado de Tordesillas. Edition with JOSÉ MANUEL RUIZ ASENSIO,
Valladolid, Sociedad V Centenario del Tratado de Tordesillas - Comissão Nacional para as
Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1995.
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O Atlântico: a memória de um Oceano. Vol. 2 - A descoberta do Oceano: saga e memória
(sec. XI-XVI) Edition with JOSÉ ADRIANO DE CARVALHO), Oporto, Banco Português do
Atlântico, [1996].
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Vasco da Gama. O homem, a viagem, a época, Lisbon, Expo 98 and Comissão de
Coordenação da Região do Alentejo, 1997. Short edition, Lisbon, Expo 98, 1998.
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Dal Mediterraneo all’Atlantico. Le scoperte e la formazione del Mare Oceano nel secoli XIVXIV, Pisa-Cagliari, Edizioni ETS-Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, 2004.
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Pedro Álvares Cabral. Uma viagem, Lisbon, Edições INAPA, 1999.
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De Vasco a Cabral, Bauru [São Paulo], EDUSC, 2001.
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D. João II, Lisbon, Círculo de Leitores, 2005. Republication in Lisbon, Temas e Debates,
2007.
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História das Ínclitas Cavalarias de Cristo, Santiago e Avis de Fr. Jerónimo Román (ed.
COSTA, Paula Pinto), Militarium Ordinum Analecta, vol. 10, Oporto, CEPESE and Fundação
Eng. António de Almeida, 2008 (with COSTA, Paula Pinto; PIMENTA, Maria Cristina; SILVA,
Isabel Morgado S. Silva; MATA, Joel)
Papers and articles
He has also published more than 135 papers and articles in journals and conference proceedings.