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As an example, the three volumes with which the Revista da Universidade de Coimbra (edited by the Biblioteca Geral) paid tribute to Armando Cortesão (vols. XXVI-XVIII) may be mentioned, perhaps the most important joint repository of articles published in Portugal on this subject; with a more diverse range of themes, his successor at BGUC also prepared three volumes in his honour in the same publication, while he was still alive (vols. XXXV-XXXVII).
His refined sense of ethics in the performance of public positions is not surprising, given his personal profile. In 1974, Luís de Albuquerque began publishing his Estudos de História [History Studies] in the series Acta Universitatis Conimbrigensis published by BGUC (6 vols., 1974-78), a compilation of sparse articles, whose volumes III and IV included Armando Cortesão's contributions to the História da Cartografia Portuguesa. Once volume VI had been published, he suspended the publication of the series to avoid using his position for the publication of his own books.
The 1980s were a period of significant activity: collaboration with institutions outside the University intensified, and he taught at several universities: In the last years of his active academic life immediately after his retirement, he taught at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa [Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon], where he participated in the launch of postgraduate studies in the History of the Discoveries, at the Faculdades de Letras das Universidades de Lisboa e Coimbra [Faculty of Arts of the Universities of Lisbon and Coimbra], and also at the Universidade Autónoma [Autonomous University], besides the numerous seminars and short courses he directed in Portuguese and foreign universities; in short, this was a period of public recognition and great projection of his work during which publications abounded. From a scientific point of view, this was also a period marked by the clear assumption of a pedagogical role in the dissemination of the History of the Discoveries and Navigation above the History of Nautical Science and Cartography, targeting a wider audience than the reader of scientific writings. Thus, collections of studies and the publication of books and articles followed in appreciable numbers, triggered by the combination of several factors.
