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COSTA (Pe. Avelino de Jesus da). O BISPO D. Pedro e a Organização da Diocese de Braga. Coimbra. 1959. - COSTA (Pe. Avelino de Jesus da) O BISPO D. Pedro e a Organização da Diocese de Braga . Coimbra: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, 1959. 2 v.: il.; 255 mm. The author's doctoral thesis, presented and defended at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra in December 1960, received a grade of nineteen out of twenty, and was awarded the Alexandre Herculano Prize by the Portuguese Academy of History in 1962. The two volumes constitute the fundamental study on D. Pedro, the bishop who reorganized the diocese of Braga after the Reconquista and presided over the dedication of the Cathedral in 1089. An indispensable reference work for the ecclesiastical and political history of the Northwest Iberian Peninsula in the 11th and 12th centuries, widely cited in subsequent historiography on the diocesan organization, settlement, and religious institutions of the Braga region. The author himself would later revisit and expand the study decades later, publishing a second, revised and enlarged edition under the title ”Bishop D. Pedro and the Organization of the Archdiocese of Braga” (1997-2000). ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate