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MARQUES (A.H. de Oliveira). PARA A HISTÓRIA DOS SEGUROS EM PORTUGAL: Notas e Documentos. Lisboa. 1977. - MARQUES (A.H. de Oliveira) PARA A HISTÓRIA DOS SEGUROS EM PORTUGAL: Notas e Documentos . Lisboa: Arcádia, 1977. 300 pp.; 195 mm. A pioneering study on the history of insurance in Portugal, resulting from a research grant awarded by the Império Insurance Company. As the author himself clarifies in the preface, the title is not intended to be modest nor to conceal the nature of the content: it consists of notes and documents gathered for the future elaboration of this history, and not the history itself, since that would require more prolonged research in the archives of the 16th to 18th centuries and a deeper understanding of ancient and modern insurance techniques. This work compiles and transcribes archival documentation on insurance practices in Portugal from the Middle Ages – dating back to the royal charter of King Dinis in 1293, which approved a mutual insurance exchange for maritime merchants – to more recent periods, and remains an essential reference and a mandatory starting point for anyone studying the history of the Portuguese insurance industry. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate