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Fire it is a natural element of the ecosystems, but with social and economical negative impacts. To analyse fire impacts on the landscape, Geostatistical and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques are often used. In this work we aim to identify with the mentioned tools, the spatial correlation and pattern of fire occurrences in Portugal and in Natura 2000 areas during the years of 2010 and 2011. The results showed that the number of fires was high in 2011, but the burned area was high in 2010. The spatial correlation and pattern were different and in 2010, the fires were more concentrated in the northwest part of Portugal, meanwhile in 2011, were majority observed in the north and more distributed across the territory. During the studied years, fire affected especially the Nature 2000 areas located in the north of Portugal. In the global context, the number of fires and burned area were not significant in Natura 2000 areas. However, in the surroundings of these areas, there is a high fire activity, that if carried out during the summer season and criminally, can represent a serious threat to nature management and conservation.

Preliminary Material /François Soyer -- Introduction /François Soyer -- Gender Stereotypes and Sexual Transgressions in Early Modern Spain and Portugal /François Soyer -- Inquisitors and Hermaphrodites /François Soyer -- "A Woman Married as a Man": The Trial of Francisco Roca (1649–1650) /François Soyer -- "Father Paula": The Trial of Father Pedro Furtado (1698–1701) /François Soyer -- The "She-Man" of Ervedal: The Trial of Joseph "Josepha" Martins (1725) /François Soyer -- Sister Maria's Secret Penis: The Trial of Maria Duran (1741–1744) /François Soyer -- Conclusion /François Soyer -- Appendix /François Soyer -- Bibliography /François Soyer -- Index /François Soyer.

In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego's work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego's art.

Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist's work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego's personal history as well as Portugal's (and indeed other nations') stories, and reveals the interrelationship between political significance and the raw emotion that lies at the heart of Rego's uncompromising iconographic style. Fundamental to Lisboa's analysis is an understanding that apparent opposites – male and female, sacred and profane, aggression and submissiveness – often co-exist in Rego's work in a way that is both disturbing and destabilising.

This collection of essays brings together both unpublished and previously published work to make a significant contribution to scholarship about Paula Rego. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of contemporary painting, Portuguese and British feminist art, and the political and ideological aspects of the visual arts.

In this paper I analyse the reasons that lead Portugual to send a Jesuit Patriarch to Ethiopia. Such a mission represented a radical break from the tolerant attitude the Lusitans had been showing vis à vis this African Church; the embassies that for decades flowed between Ethiopia and Portugal were suddenly replaced by a one-way attempt of conversion that deeply affected Ethiopian Christian society for more than a century. This mission is placed at the crossroads of both a process of spiritualization that the Portuguese court, under the influence of the Jesuit fathers and the cardinal infantes, endured, and of the political stagnation of the Indian colonial project. But the Catholic Patriarchate would only come to the fore, I contend, at the outcome of the Bermudez affair. This episode, which has largely been underestimated by historiography, was crucial for pushing forward the King João III, the Pope and the Jesuits in the Patriarchal adventure.

In this paper I analyse the reasons that lead Portugual to send a Jesuit Patriarch to Ethiopia. Such a mission represented a radical break from the tolerant attitude the Lusitans had been showing vis à vis this African Church; the embassies that for decades flowed between Ethiopia and Portugal were suddenly replaced by a one-way attempt of conversion that deeply affected Ethiopian Christian society for more than a century. This mission is placed at the crossroads of both a process of spiritualization that the Portuguese court, under the influence of the Jesuit fathers and the cardinal infantes, endured, and of the political stagnation of the Indian colonial project. But the Catholic Patriarchate would only come to the fore, I contend, at the outcome of the Bermudez affair. This episode, which has largely been underestimated by historiography, was crucial for pushing forward the King João III, the Pope and the Jesuits in the Patriarchal adventure.

Las cartas visibles e "invisibles" de una mujer política: Violante de Aragón (1236-1300) reina y madre / María Jesús Fuente -- Cartas de Isabel de Portugal (la Reina Santa) a Jaime II, privacidad y comunicación políticas / Ángelas Muñoz Fernández -- La correspondencia de Constanza de Portugual con Jaime II de Aragón (1302-1313) / Patricia Rochwert-Zuili -- La conservación de las cartas de las reinas de Aragón del siglo XIV / Alexandra Beauchamp -- Las amenazas de una reina: la relación epistolar entre Violante de Bar y el arzobispo de Tarragona / Eduard Juncosa Bonet -- Las cartas y el ejercicio del poder: el caso de Catalina de Lancáster / Óscar Villarroel González -- La documentación epistolar de Blanca de Évreux, reina de Sicilia y de Navarra (c. 1385-1441) conservada en el Archivo de la Corona de Aragón / María Narbona Cárceles -- Parentesco, observancia y privanza regia: las cartas de Isabel la Católica al monasterio de Santo Domingo el Real de Toledo (1475-1503) / Francisco de Paula Cañas Gálvez -- Hildegarde de Bingen: lettres, médiation et féminité / Myriam White-Le Goff -- "Yo la e escripta de mi mano siellada con mi siello secreto i de part de la Infanta Dona Blanca": las cartas de las infantas María y Blanca de Aragón (1299-1348) / Hélène Thieulin-Pardo -- De reinas a monjas en la Castilla bajomedieval: las cartas de Catalina de Lancaster y su familia con Teresa de Ayala y su hija María / Gregoria Cavero Domínguez -- La muerte de la infanta Catalina (1439) en las cartas de su hermana María de Castilla, reina de Aragón / María del Carmen García Herrero -- Diventare donne: reflessi e motivi dell'educazione femminile nei carteggi delle corti italiane del Quattrocento / Monica Ferrari -- "Avanzandomi tempo ho imparato un poco de scrivere": caratterizzazione di genere nelle lettere dei figli degli Sforza durante gli anni della formazione / Federico Piseri -- Una cuestión de género: las cartas de la reina Urraca en la Historia Compostellana / Maria Joana Gomes -- La plume en tant qu'épée: les lettres de Leonor Teles dans la Crónica de D. João I de Fernão Lopes / Maria do Rosário Ferreira -- "E tomó tinta e papel, e fizo una carta para su padre en esta guisa": tres cartas de la Caba en la Crónica sarracina de Pedro de Corral, sus modelos e influencias / Frédéric Alchalbabi -- "Como si fuerta una reliquia muy reverenciada": sobre una carta ficticia de Juana de Arco a D. Álvaro de Luna / Jean-Pierre Jardin -- Huellas epistolares de Isabel I en la Crónica de Enrique IV de Alonso de Palencia / María del Pilar Rábade Obradó -- "Femmes entre elles": échanges épistolaires féminins dans la littérature française de la fin de Moyen Âge / Sylvie Lefèvre -- Conclusiones: cartas que hablan, cartas que callan / José Manuel Nieto Soria