Itinereries on the correspondence between Oliveira Lima and Fidelino de Figueiredo (1912-1928)

Abstract

This article intends analyse the correspondence exchanged between by M. de Oliveira Lima and Fidelino de Figueiredo, as part of the intellectual sociabilities build throw the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Históricos, between 1912 and 1928. The concepts of generation, itinerary and project had been used based on the P. Bourdieu and J.F. Sirinelli contributions in the analysis of the intellectual field, where these authors were insert. It signifies a system ruled by specific relations, with particular instances of selection and consecration. In this way, we consider as relative the intellectual field autonomy, it means, affected not only by specific relations, but also by the political, economic and social pressures that interfere on the creative project, since its proposition to the instances of its author consecration. The mainly historiographical project analyzed was the works D.Pedro e D. Miguel, and D.Miguel no trono, written by M. de Oliveira Lima.