In the field of medieval and Renaissance literature and philology, critical editions of historical sources and documents have been published, mainly of an epistolary nature, including, among other titles, the minutes and books of municipal councils in Braga and its surroundings. The commemorations of municipal and Braga events in the 1950s and 1960s, including those of a civic and religious nature, have not been forgotten, and we also find numerous Roman, Suevi, Visigoth, Muslim and Portuguese numismatic sketches, etc. As if it were a perfect miscellany, we then find reflections of a pedagogical and didactic nature alongside extremely important works on the Restoration (1640-1668), which are extremely useful. This list of subjects includes articles on diplomacy since the dawn of Portuguese identity, not forgetting a wide range of socio-economic studies, bibliographic reviews on demographic dynamics and art history, with important additions to the historical understanding of national painting and music, whose origins are difficult to explore.

Nevertheless, readers and researchers will find other works devoted to the Early Middle Ages – where the figures of St. Damasus (305-384), Paul Orsius (c. 385-c. 420), St. Martin of Dume (c. 510/5-c. 579/580) and St. Frutuoso de Braga (c. 595-c. 665), among other biographical references – to the formation and consolidation of nationality, without neglecting the paths of the Modern Age up to the 20 th century, addressing an indiscriminate universe between Social History, Political History and Religious History, among other historiographical “topos”. Within the scope of its general historiographical guidelines, although this was not previously stipulated, a fundamentally positive “writing” of history was practised, of a documentary and factual nature, with a criticism of sources close to Methodical History, essentially descriptive and not so much interpretative – in this sense, see, among others, the articles “A História: função do espaço e tempo humanos” [History: function of human space and time], by Vitorino de Sousa Alves ( Bracara Augusta , vols. XIV-XV, nos. 1-2, January-December 1963, pp. 27-28); or “A História e o Método Experimental” [History and the Experimental Method], by Duque Vieira ( Bracara Augusta , vols. XVIII-XIX, nos. 41-42, January-December 1965, pp. 408-411). All volumes of Bracara Augusta are, therefore, an extraordinary repository of Braga’s historical experience, an excellence enhanced by the heuristic impulse of the Municipal Archive of Braga and other scientific organisations.

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