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Pedro Sebastião

Pedro Sebastião holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Master’s degrees in Medieval History and in the Teaching of History (for the third cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Medieval History at the same institution. He is a member of the Iberian Association of Military History. His research has focused on Military History, particularly on the transition from the medieval to the early modern period, with a specific emphasis on pyroballistics. He has been awarded the Feijó Prize (2014, 2015, and 2016) by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, as well as the National Defence Prize (2019) by the Portuguese Commission of Military History. He is currently the recipient of a doctoral scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (2025.02442.BD), with the project entitled Firearms in the Western Mediterranean: A Military Revolution? – The Cases of Portugal, Castile, and Morocco (1411–1541).

Main interests and research topics: Military History; European Medieval History; Early Modern History; Firearms.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1592-8832

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/AF1D-E539-6F65

Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/PedroSebastião

Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities