Buescu, Ana Isabel2024-07-302024-07-302004-01-010018-2141PURE: 15783447PURE UUID: 54607130-4d36-4730-8426-f1058f4d48c0Scopus: 62249173639http://hdl.handle.net/10362/170162The importance of the Castilian language is undoubtedly a culturally important fact in Early Modern Portugal, particularly between the mid-fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. This essay highlights some aspects of this phenomenon, which, despite inevitable variations in different contexts, received significant expression in a number of fields of Portuguese culture and society - among them, the court, literature and intellectual culture, and politics. The importance of Castilian only began to decline in Portugal from the eighteenth century onwards, a fact that may be accounted for both by the relative loss of Spanish influence over Portugal, and by the ascent of a new cultural paradigm, mainly derived from French culture.262493594spaBilingualismCastilianEarly modern periodLanguagePortugalHistoryjournal article10.3989/hispania.2004.v64.i216.195https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/62249173639