When Brotéria was reformulated in 1925, the subscription cost for this cultural series was 50 escudos, a figure that progressively increased until, in the mid-1970s, it reached 230$ (30$ per issue), 10 USD in Spain and Brazil, and 15 USD in "other countries." At the turn of the 1990s, subscription costs and geographical groupings were as follows: 1,900$ in Portugal (200$ per issue), 13$ in Spain and "Portuguese-speaking African countries," and 30$ in "other countries." By 2012, a subscription to Brotéria cost €55 in Portugal (€6 per issue), €90 in the rest of the European Union, and €95 in "other countries."

These geographical references indicate a two-way exchange: on one hand, they highlight Brotéria 's reach beyond national borders; on the other, they reflect the contributions it received from authors and publishers, including those from Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal. These contributions, identified in the "Works received by the Editorial Office" section, were instrumental in building the Brotéria library, which has been open to the public since 1995. The library houses, in addition to a collection of over 200 periodicals, a set of monographs totalling around 160,000.

This is part of a broader framework of cultural intervention, aimed at a relatively diverse audience, as evidenced by the subscription costs and confirmed by the solid content of the articles. It is within this context that the presence of historiography in the pages of Brotéria can be appreciated, articulated around three main axes: the space given to articles with a historiographical focus; the work of historians of the Society of Jesus, both Portuguese and foreign; and the prominent position reserved for the history of the Society of Jesus in relation to key events and figures in the history of Portugal, particularly its overseas expansion and its consequences.

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