An Introduction to Portugal: Its Culture, Influence and Civilization

Abstract

After twenty-five years of publication, in 1949 the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, in order more truthfully to convey the extended, and extending, areas of its scholarly concerns, altered its name to become the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. In a preface entitled The Next Quarter-century’, which introduced its hundred-and-first number, but the first issue with the name it still carries, the Bulletin’s founder-editor, E. Allison Peers, rightly took care to emphasize that ‘the change in title’ was not [made] to indicate any change of policy, but to make explicit a policy which has been followed by this review almost since its inception and which its former title tended somewhat to obscure.1 It is certainly the case that articles and reviews relating to the language, literature and history of Portugal had been published in the journal since the late 1920s and early 1930s. Scarcely four years after the Bulletin was founded in 1923, William J. Entwistle contributed to the sixteenth Number a piece on Portuguese co...