Fernanda Olival

Fernanda Olival teaches Early Modern History and methodology at the Department of History of University of Évora since 1991. She was also Director of CIDEHUS (a research Center specialized on societal changes in the Mediterranean area and in the South). between 2013-2019. She is co-responsible for the Portuguese node of Red Columnaria, an interuniversitary international network that brings together researchers interested in the history of the Iberian Monarchies. She had been coordinator of various research projects. Her most important three books are: As Ordens Militares e o Estado Moderno: honra, mercê e venalidade em Portugal (1641-1789), Lisboa, Estar, 2001; D. Filipe II de cognome “O Pio”, reed. corrigida, Rio de Mouro, Círculo de Leitores, CEP/CEP, Temas e Debates, 2008; The Military Orders and the Portuguese Expansion (15th-17th centuries), Peterborough: BayWolf Press, 2018.