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One of Jean Delumeau's first disciples, Cândido dos Santos was, as an assistant at the start of his career, one of the systematic didacts of the Economic and Social History of the 16th-19th centuries; but as a historian, and apart from an initial phase in which he cultivated Historical Demography, he has essentially been a scholar of the religious life of Ancien Régime Portugal and of the University of Porto (and the teaching institutions that preceded it). In the first of these fields, he produced a degree thesis (1969, published later) on the diocese and episcopacy of Porto on the eve of the Council of Trent, a doctoral thesis (1977, with two later editions in print) on the Order of Saint Jerome and multiple studies on various aspects of religiosity in the 16th-19th centuries, with an emphasis, in recent times, on Jansenism or the figure of Fr. António Pereira de Figueiredo. As far as higher education in Porto is concerned, he has already given us an initial thorough overview of the UP's past (two editions and an English version between 1996 and 2011) and the beginning of the publication of the University Senate Minutes (1911-1929; with interpretation and transcription by Flávio Miranda, 2011).
Another of Delumeau's disciples, Eugénio dos Santos, worked for some time on the Congregation of the Oratory in Porto and the North of Portugal (undergraduate and doctoral theses between 1968 and 1977). A later phase saw him dedicated to domestic missions in Portugal during the Ancien Régime. More publicist and less erudite in later phases, and highly focused on the problem of Luso-Brazilian relations, he would gain prominence as a collaborator of the History of Portugal, dir. João Medina, and author of the biography of King Peter IV in the collection already mentioned regarding other authors.
The third disciple of the author of Naissance et affirmation de la Réforme was, as mentioned above, João Francisco Marques. A scholar of homiletics in the Philippine period (degree thesis, UC, 1970, supervised by Manuel Lopes de Almeida [1900-1980]) and the Restoration (doctoral thesis, UP, 1984), this author rapidly became the greatest national expert on the subject and one of the most prominent names in the ecclesiastical history of our country in the modern era, including studies - which he produced or supervised - on Protestantism among us. At the age of 83, he is undoubtedly a young spirit in Portuguese historiography.
