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e-Journal of Portuguese History

On-line version ISSN 1645-6432

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VALDEZ, Maria Ana T.. Rethinking the Fifth Empire: António Vieira and the Clavis Prophetarum. e-JPH [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.2, pp.58-75. ISSN 1645-6432.

It is this paper’s purpose to introduce António Vieira’s model of the Fifth Empire and to contextualize it within the biblical exegesis tendencies of his time. Vieira’s conceptualization is of utmost importance for understanding the intellectual and religious environment of seventeenth-century Portugal: a disturbed time, during which people searched for answers in biblical prophecies to explain the reasons behind so much suffering. Vieira’s systematization, however, was first viewed as a possible heresy by the Portuguese Inquisition and was only later, and in part, rehabilitated by Antonio Casnedi. The Clavis prophetarum is also an expression of an eschatological hope common to the Iberian world, although it focuses mostly on Portugal.

Keywords : António Vieira; Clavis prophetarum; Fifth Empire; Apocalyptic Literature; Portugal.

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