His published historiographical work covers the period between 1917 and 1928. The first work corresponds to the dissertation O Renascimento em Portugal: Clenardo: com a tradução das suas principais cartas [The Renaissance in Portugal: Clenardus : with a translation of his main letters], which he submitted to complete his doctoral examinations, defended on 30 January 1918, and was awarded the highest mark, just two months after his 29 th birthday. The second volume of this work was to be presented in the competition for ordinary professor, which never took place. In addition to the 1917-1918 edition, the book was republished in 1926, 1949 and 1974. This was followed by articles published in Biblos : in 1925, Do valor histórico de Fernão Lopes – Esbôço crítico de “D. Pedro I e a sua época” do Sr. General Moraes Sarmento, Lisbon, 1924 [On the Historical Value of Fernão Lopes – A Critical Outline of “D. Pedro I and His Era” by Mr. General Moraes Sarmento, Lisbon, 1924], which was published in the same year; in 1926 and 1927, Notas Históricas sobre os ordenados dos Lentes da Universidade [Historical Notes on the Salaries of University Lecturers]; in 1927, O conceito de Idade Média [The Concept of the Middle Ages]. This would be published as a volume under the title A Idade Média [The Middle Ages] in 1936, and as A Idade Média na História da Civilização [The Middle Ages in the History of Civilisation] in 1953: the published part had been in print since 1929, but he never finished a substantial part of what he had planned for chapters III and IV, respectively on “Considerations on the role of Christianity in the formation of the European soul” and “The Middle Ages and the Barbarians”.

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