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This text focuses on the ecclesiastical tax transfers in favour of the Portuguese Crown in the late medieval period, through an analysis of the typology of taxes, the chronology of its granting and the justifications presented for its perception. While the justifications given by the monarchy remain framed by the legitimacy conferred by canon law, the clerics’ resistance to its payment reveal an argument based on reality and on the good will to satisfy the fiscal needs of the Portuguese monarchs.

This article aims at the biographical study of a Portuguese physician of the fifteenth century, still insufficiently known by the Portuguese historiography. Based on known and unpublished facts, it proposes a perspective into his public life, shared between the University, the service of the Great and the ecclesiastical environment, thus constituting a case of institutional and geographical mobility of a physician at the end of the Middle Ages.

[fr] La poursuite des affaires de la Couronne portugaise à la curie d’Avignon a amené la constitution de deux types de représentation. L’une, de caractère formelle, constituée par des ambassadeurs choisies ad casu au profil varié. L’autre, agencée autour des clercs séjournant de forme permanente à la curie. Les uns comme les autres intervinrent dans la concrétisation des demandes gracieuses ou fiscales au nom du roi ou de bénéfices pour eux et leurs clientèles.

Pretende-se estudar neste texto a orgânica e a composição social do Cabido da Sé de Lisboa no período que medeia entre 1277 e 1377, insistindo num primeiro tempo sobre a variedade e escopo de funções dos cargos beneficiais existentes na instituição e posteriormente sobre a componente humana desses mesmos cargos, mediante a análise dos níveis de inserção geo-sociais a partir de um estudo prosopográfico efectuado no decurso de uma dissertação de Mestrado.