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From the Dean: Our Work in this Economy.; Interview: Q&A with Paul C. Brophy; Bookshelf: Understanding Assets: Two new books explore the impact of ownership and assets on individuals and communities; Perspectives with Matthew Kreuter: Communication Connections; Building a New Paradigm: Transdisciplinary Research Comes to the Forefront; A Sense of Place: Place-Based Initiatives Help Communities and Students; Notebook: Research: Tutoring Produces Big Gains in Student Learning; Notebook: Research: Free Exercise and Nutrition Program in Brazil Could Serve as Model in United States; Notebook: Research: Growing Problem for Veterans-Domestic Violence; Notebook: Message of Service Drives Surge in Peace Corps Applications; Notebook: Research: Black Newspapers Used as Cancer Education Tool in African American Communities; Notebook: Partnerships: Indian Immersion: 22-day Exchange Offers Insight into Mental Health and Poverty; Notebook: New on the Web: Creating Community: New Online Resources; Notebook: Faculty News; Alumni News and Note

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From the Dean: Make Space for Social Work; Perspectives: In the News: Social Work Faculty and Staff Comment on Civilian Service, Health Care Costs, and Native American Stereotypes; Perspectives: Civic Service Worldwide; Perspectives: The Future of Social Work Research with Enola K. Proctor; Interview: Q&A with Greg Echele; Scattered Image: Leaders in social work education agree that the profession has an image problem but remain at odds on the best way to change it.; Place, Space, & People: Traditionally two disparate fields, architecture and social work are interacting in new ways that involve communities in producing socially innovative design.; Sowing the Seeds of Knowledge: Quality doctoral education is needed to advance the social work knowledge base.; Notebook; Alumni News and Note

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A data de nascimento de Afonso I

Apesar do desafio aliciante que sempre constitui um enigma, a contradição das fontes mais antigas sobre a data de nascimento de Afonso Henriques nunca foi devidamente estudada, por não se considerar o assunto suficientemente relevante para a história, pouco interessada com a averiguação isolada de factos do passado. Não é de estranhar, assim, que este artigo surja à margem da historiografia profissional, apesar de ter sido a recente publicação da biografia de D. Afonso Henriques que veio renovar o interesse pelo facto. Este trabalho propõe-se revisitar as fontes coevas à luz da crítica textual. Pretende-se demonstrar que a Vita Theotonii, sendo a fonte primordial, contém já em si os vestígios do «pecado original» donde procede a confusão acerca da data de nascimento do nosso primeiro rei, que perdurou até aos nossos dias. A finalidade explicitada acaba assim por se tornar um pretexto para uma reflexão mais ampla sobre os problemas da transmissão textual.Despite the challenge that is always an enigma, the contradiction between the sources of the date of birth of Afonso Henriques had never been properly studied because it is not considered a matter of history, little concerned with the investigation of isolated facts from the past. No wonder that this article arise in the margins of professional historiography, despite having been the recent publication of the biography of D. Afonso Henriques, who came to renew the interest in the subject. The aim of this paper is to revisit the coeval sources in light of the problem. We intend to show that “Vita Theotonii” is not only the primary source but also contains within itself the «original sin» upon which was settled the confusion over the date of birth of our first king, which lasted until the present. The explicit purpose eventually had become a plea for a broader discussion of the problems of textual transmission