Dr. Odber de Baubeta has published books and articles on medieval Portuguese Literature and Ecclesiastical History. She is also interested in selected aspects of modern Portuguese Literature, and Sociolinguistics.
Portuguese History
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"Some Early English Sources for Portuguese History". Estudos Medievais, 8 (1988), 201-210..
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"Papel da Igreja nos Descobrimentos e na Expansão Colonial no Século XV", II Congresso Luso-Espanhol sobre Descobrimentos e Expansão Colonial. Mare Librum, 10 (1995), 61-65.
Sociolinguistics: the language of advertising
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"Pecado, sedução e tentação: o discurso publicitário actual", Discursos. Estudos de Língua e Cultura Portuguesa. Discursos periféricos, nº 10 (1995), 95-120.
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"Fairy Tale Motifs in Advertising". Estudos de Literatura Oral, 3 (1997), 35-60.
Portuguese literature
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"Dualismo e Polaridad: Forças Opostas na Narrativa de Miguel Torga", Aqui, Neste Lugar e Nesta Hora. Actas do Primeiro Congresso Internacional sobre Miguel Torga, Porto, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 1994, 51-65.
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Igreja, Pecado e Sátira Social na Idade Média Portuguesa, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional/Casa da Moeda, 1997.
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Frank Lough, "National Identity and Historiography in José Saramago's A Jangada de Pedra", Tesserae. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, vol. 8:2 (2002), 153-63.
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Dr Robert Oakley has carried out research and published on a wide range of Portuguese literary and historical topics.
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His translations of selections from the fifteenth-century Crónicas of Fernão Lopes were made jointly with the late Professor Derek Lomax and published under the title of The English in Portugal, 1376-87, Warminster, Aris and Phillips, 1988.
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Dr Oakley has also written on Eça de Queirós' A Cidade e as Serras: ‘Cidades e Serras Queirozianas’, Líttera, 16 (1976), 93-105.