Sobre as causas do martirológio dos (nossos) monumentos

Résumé

The majority of works concerning vandalism against cultural heritage combine two features: the inventory of vandalism cases (e.g. by country, region, or city, over a given period of time), and the inventory of the correspondent causes of destruction. This article has emerged within the scope of an on-going research about the subject of vandalism against cultural heritage in Portugal. This comprises three steps: 1 – to recollect some of the major contributions regarding the study of this topic; 2 – to inquire into the range of causes ascribed to vandalism throughout the nineteenth century in Portugal; 3 – to evoke the hitherto unknown contribution of Luís Chaves in cataloguing these causes.