O artigo procura mapear, com base na vida e na trajetória política de D. Antônio, Prior do Crato, algumas questões para o estudo da história política e cultural ibérica na virada do século XVI para o XVII. Personagem controvertido, inquieto e ambicioso, esteve envolvido diretamente na disputa sucessória que antecedeu a União Ibérica e liderou o mais forte partido contra Felipe II. Depois de se autocoroar rei de Portugal, foi perseguido pelo duque de Alba, refugiou-se em cortes europeias inimigas do soberano espanhol e morreu pobre e solitário em Paris, em 1595. A numerosa produção historiográfica já dedicada a D. Antônio, bem como a documentação já localizada e catalogada sobre sua trajetória na corte e o breve e conturbado reinado permitem novas aproximações com o tempo, os projetos, as alianças e os insucessos que conheceu, seja para uma análise macro-histórica do período, seja para o estudo do personagem em suas várias dimensões e perspectivas.

The article focuses the lineage of D. Antônio, called as Prior do Crato, his role amidst the iberian courts and, mainly, his desire to become the king of Portugal in 1580. He was a sun of D. Luís, one of the most nobleman at this time, so he was received into the courts. However, considering the successory fight in Portugal after the royal defeat in Alcacer Quibir battle, the bastard origin of D. Antônio was the major obstacle to his ambition. The portuguese nobility was profoundly divided in those years. Altough fought, the antonista project had several followers, partly composed by those who were loyal to D. Luís, the father of D. Antônio. This group was sheltered in others european courts where they adopted and spread the so-called sebastianism. Considered part of the large bibligraphy related to d. Antônio and his dream, this paper tries to offer some issues to be discussed or searched on this "rejected king".

O texto apresenta algumas possibilidades analíticas para a decisão tardia de aclamar d. João VI no Brasil, tendo o rei assumido o título monárquico desde a morte de sua mãe, d. Maria I, em 20 de março de 1816. A decisão pela aclamação e a forma grandiosa da cerimônia, quase dois anos depois, deve ser analisada à luz da mudança do contexto europeu após a derrota de Napoleão, da restauração das forças monárquicas impressas nos tratados do Congresso de Viena, e, no Brasil, considerando os novos perfis dos ministros de d. João nos últimos anos de sua permanência na América

The article presents some analytical possibilities for the delayed decision to acclaim d. João VI in Brazil, though the King had assumed the title of monarch following the death of his mother, the Queen d. Maria I, on 20 March 1816. The decision to hold the acclamation and the grandiose form of the ceremony almost two years later have to be analyzed in light of the changed in the European context after the defeat of Napoleon, the restoration of monarchical forces through the treaties of the Congress of Vienna, and in Brazil by taking into account the new profiles of d. João's ministers in the final years of his stay in America

The article presents some analytical possibilities for the delayed decision to acclaim D. João VI in Brazil, though the King had assumed the title of monarch following the death of his mother, the Queen D. Maria I, on 20 March 1816. The decision to hold the acclamation and the grandiose form of the ceremony almost two years later have to be analyzed in light of the changed in the European context after the defeat of Napoleon, the restoration of monarchical forces through the treaties of the Congress of Vienna, and in Brazil by taking into account the new profiles of D. João's ministers in the final years of his stay in America.

O artigo analisa a sobrevivência do sebastianismo em Portugal no início do século XIX, a partir dos escritos que provocaram a chamada "guerra sebástica", travada paralelamente às guerras contras as tropas de Napoleão Bonaparte.

The article analyses the survival of "sebastianismo"in Portugal on the beginning of the XIXth Century, based on the writings responsible for the "sebástica war", held in parallel to the wars against Napoleon's troops