This journey was marked by the restoration of the pure monarchy, the only legitimate one, in the person of D. Miguel, which ended with the Convention of Évora Monte. This was the end of the 1 st Bragança dynasty and the beginning of the 2 nd , with the reign of D. Pedro, the constitutional king, which would be marked by well-known instability and deserved the historian ’ s sharpest criticism. It should be noted that he distinguishe d between the 1 st and 2 nd dynasties based on purely ideological criteria. And it was undoubtedly these that led him to present the Estado Novo with favour due to its anti-liberal and anti-democratic principles, as well as its organic conception of society, valuing the family as a factor and expression of continuity, and in which a strong, if not sole, power guaranteed the peace and prosperity of the social whole. Whilst he accepted that the principles enunciated by the constitutional monarchy had reached their apogee in the republic, he also admitted that in their moderate form , they had not yet made the monarchy viable in his day and age, either in its pure form or in its constitutional parliamentary form. And História breve de Portugal [Brief History of Portugal] , by bringing this ‘committed’ perspective to the attention of its readers, conveyed to them a conception of History far removed from the criteria of objectivity and documentary substantiation once enunciated by its author. In any case, he was recognised as a historian of merit. Elected a member (chair 28) of the recently re-established Academia Portuguesa da História and awarded the Alexandre Herculano prize, he was pleased to see his commitment as a historian honoured.

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