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Queirós Veloso was concerned in his studies with going beyond the historiographical context which said that this period marked the start of the country's "decline". He himself did not express such a definition of the age so emphatically. He did not allow himself to be influenced by political or teleological motives nor by fin-de-siècle pessimism; instead he believed that the country's deterioration began after the death of Filipe II and the decline of Spanish political and maritime hegemony, which made Portugal vulnerable to those who opposed the Catholic monarchy. Thus, he sought to rehabilitate historically such controversial figures as D. Catarina of Austria and Cardinal D. Henrique by affirming the concern of these Portuguese historical figures with national issues at a time when the nationalizing ideal was gaining ground (História de Portugal, dir. Damião Peres, 1933).
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