Arthur Almeida Santos de Carvalho Curvelo is currently a research fellow on Project VINCULUM: Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries)", coordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rosa and funded by the European Research Council. Arthur Curvelo holds a PhD in History from the Programa Interuniversitário de Doutoramento em História, associated with the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (2019). He holds also a Master degree from the Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Universidade de Pernambuco (2014) and a Graduate degree from Universidade Federal de Alagoas (2011). Arthur Curvelo is collaborator on project RESISTANCE: Rebellion and Resistance on the Iberian Empires (16th-19th centuries) and also on project RITUALS: Public Rituals on the Portuguese Empire. His general research interest is the social history of power and institutions of Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World, with specific emphasis on the history of local government institutions; governors and governorships of Portuguese America; relations between local, regional and central arenas of power; and, most recently on information and political communication. His currently researching Entails (morgados and capelas) and Entailment practices on the South Atlantic World during the 16th-17th centuries.