Estrangeirado

Estrangeirado

Estrangeirado

17th and 18th century Portuguese intellectuals


Estrangeirados (Portuguese pronunciation: [iʃtɾɐ̃ʒɐjˈɾaðuʃ]) were, in the history of Portugal, Portuguese intellectuals who, in the late 17th century and particularly in the 18th century, strove to introduce the ideas of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, as well as other foreign ideas to Portugal.

Etymology

Estrangeirado (meaning "admirer, cultivator of what is foreign")[1] comes from the Portuguese estrangeiro, meaning foreign. This is because the ideas these people tried to inculcate in Portuguese society were, for the most part, foreign in origin.

Estrangeirados


References

  1. Franco Venturi (14 July 2014). The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, Part I: The Great States of the West. Princeton University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-4008-6190-3.

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