Abstract
In the framework of erudition of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Royal Academy of Portuguese History, founded under royal protection in 1720, defined the rules of investigation and historical narrative, providing the sociability of intellectuals. Distinguished from the other literary associations of the time, for its purpose and recognition, the link of the monarch to the institution is analyzed through the place where the sessions took place - the Palace of the Dukes of Braganca, in Lisbon -, evidencing the historiographic project, in line of the writing of eighteenth-century history, as well as the ceremonial of the institution in symbolic practices of definition and confraternal relationship. Of royal patronage, in the title and in the affirmation of the image of the monarch, we understand the creation of the institution in the cultural and political strategies of exaltation of the regal sovereignty and of construction and legitimation of the knowledge and the power.
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