Pedro Amaral de Azevedo Teixeira

Email: pedroaateixeira@outlook.com

Pedro Amaral de Azevedo Teixeira is an Early Modern History master’s student at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. There, he obtained his bachelor’s in History with a minor in Social and Cultural Anthropology. A collaborator at the Center for the History of Society and Culture, he won a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation “Novos Talentos 2023/2024” and was awarded the “Prémio Curricular Feijó 2022/2023.” He currently holds a Fulbright and a Luso-American Foundation scholarship and is a visiting scholar in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He researches the Portuguese Inquisition’s auto da fé, travel literature, and the court system during the Ancien Régime. His interdisciplinary studies combine History, Anthropology, Ethnography, and the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Main interests and research topics: Anthropological History; Ethnographical History; auto da fé; Portuguese Inquisition; Traveler’s accounts.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9993-5628

Ciência ID: B011-426F-5876