Shields and Castles: Signs of Portugal
No. 39 MAY 2019
Portuguese citizens certainly know the visual symbols of their country: the dark green and red flag, the separation of the two colours, and the shield with its castles and smaller shields set in the middle of an armillary sphere. But how many can explain them and trace their history?
How did we get here? How were they formed, from bygone medieval times, these identifying visual signs of the Portuguese political community, still in use today? And, above all, how were these signs understood, appropriated and disseminated by the agents of political power or by their observers, users, recipients or interpreters?
This portrait looks into how a diversity of visual signs that served to identify the Portuguese political community was built, from the beginning to the present day,. Looking for its function and its weight in national collective memory.
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan.
Portuguese citizens certainly know the visual symbols of their country: the dark green and red flag, the separation of the two colours, and the shield with its castles and smaller shields set in the middle of an armillary sphere. But how many can explain them and trace their history?
How did we get here? How were they formed, from bygone medieval times, these identifying visual signs of the Portuguese political community, still in use today? And, above all, how were these signs understood, appropriated and disseminated by the agents of political power or by their observers, users, recipients or interpreters?
This portrait looks into how a diversity of visual signs that served to identify the Portuguese political community was built, from the beginning to the present day,. Looking for its function and its weight in national collective memory.
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan.
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Dimensions
10 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-8943-56-9
Book available only in Portuguese
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