ABSTRACT
It is well known that the Iberian peregrinatio academica was a major movement within the Peninsula, and a much lesser one outside it. Subject to the intervention of the political powers, especially royal power, the Iberian universities were considered mostly as centres of learning for royal court officials. This does not mean that many royal – and even municipal – officials were not educated abroad. This remains an open question. In fact, while we have a fair knowledge, acquired since the late 1980s, of the educational curricula of royal bureaucrats, the same cannot be said of the careers of medieval and early modern Portuguese scholars in the kingdom, which are still in need of systematic attention in terms of a biographical or prosopographical treatment.
