Nuno Vila-Santa

RUTTER Project
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences, FCUL

Research interests

History of the Portuguese Empire
History of Europe
History of Culture
History of Knowledge
History of Science

Projects

2013-2016 - Participation in the project Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900 (CMR 1900);
2010-2012 – Participation in the project De Todas as Partes do Mundo, O Património do 5º Duque de Bragança, D. Teodósio I – All his wordly possessions: the Estate of D. Teodósio I, 5th duke of Braganza;
2008-2017 - Participation in the project Virtual Encyclopedia of the Portuguese Expansion.

Publications (selection)

"Between Ottomans and Gujaratis: D. Diogo de Noronha, the Repositioning of Diu in the Indian Ocean, and the Creation of the Northern Province (1548–1560)", Asian Review of World Histories, Volume 8 (2020): Issue 2 (Jul 2020), pp. 207-233.
“Between Renaissance and Counter-Reformation: shapping the historical memory of D. Francisco Coutinho, 3rd earl of Redondo (1546-1564)”, Hispania Sacra, vol. LXXI, nº 144 (Julio-Decembre 2019), pp. 465-479.
“Counter-reformist policies versus Geostrategic politics in the “Estado da Índia”: the case of governor Francisco Barreto” (1555-1558)”, Journal of Asian History, vol. 51, nº 2 (2017), pp. 189-222.
Diogo do Couto orador. Discursos oficiais proferidos na Câmara de Goa, edition by Maria Augusta Lima Cruz, Rui Manuel Loureiro and Nuno Vila-Santa, Portimão, Arandis/ISMAT, 2016.
“Between Mission and Conquest: a review on Francisco Barreto´s expedition to Mutapa (1569-1573)”, Portuguese Studies Review, nº 24, 1 (2016), pp. 51-90.
Entre o Reino e o Império: A carreira político-militar de D. Luís de Ataíde (1516-1581), Lisboa, ICS/Câmara Municipal de Peniche, 2015.
“A Coroa e o Estado da Índia nos reinados de D. Sebastião e D. Henrique: Política ou Políticas?. Lusitania Sacra, nº 29 (Janeiro-.Junho de 2014), pp. 41-68.
"O Vice-Reinado de D. Antão de Noronha (1564-1568) no contexto da crise do Estado da Índia de 1565-1575", Anais de História de Além-Mar, vol. XI, Lisboa/Ponta Delgada, 2010, pp. 63-101.