Abstract
Summary This article surveys the work of the last decade or so on politics, government and representation in early‐modern Portugal. Traditional views of a ‘precocious’ absolutism are shown to have been modified by a newer understanding of political power as plural and dispersed. Underlying this perception has been the study of ‘political culture’ conceived as a deep and wide‐ranging grammar of political discourse expressed not only in the formal and symbolic, but also in the informal and less ‘visible’ aspects of political behaviour. A final section discusses the new, revisionist historiography of the Cortes, with its de‐mythification of the medieval assembly and the rehabilitation of the early‐modern Cortes as a ritual manifestation of the bond between king and kingdom.
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