He is an emeritus professor at the University of Coimbra School of Arts and Humanities. He has a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from the University of Coimbra and a PhD Honoris Causa from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. He coordinates the research group ""Rethinking the Art of the Historian” in the Centre for History of Society and Culture at the University of Coimbra. He was director of the ""Journal of the History of Ideas”. He does research work in the areas of Republicanism, Secularisation, Historical Memory, the Theory of History, Historiography, the History of Ideas and Cultural History.

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