Table of contents
1. An overview of cultural theater in Portugal in the first quarter of the seventeenth century: the leitmotif of the events and the reasons for a historical-juridical research on the State-Church relations - 2. The method of historiographical investigation. Relativity of generalizing descriptive formulas – 3. Specialties of Lusitanian law. The historical-juridical sources: the works of the moderns and the places of memory. The conceptual identification of the language of the law for the understanding of the mental habits of power - 4. The Portuguese authors between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The legal culture of jurisprudence and their contemporary doctrine - 5. The characters: powers, entities and subjects of the seventeenth-century Portuguese organization chart. A complex network of interrelationships between civil and religious subjects - 6. The forms and places of explicitation of absolute power. Temporal absolutism and spiritual absolutism - 7. The confrontation between powers: the exasperation of the compromise logic. Concordats, Concordats, laws, and customs according to the synthetic formula of the «estylo do Reino» in the Philippine Royal Charters – 8. Originality of the descriptive formula «Portuguese jurisdictionalism». Confirmations, additions and corrections on the adherence of descriptive concepts to individual historical experiences