Portuguese Studies articles from January 1 2001

Portuguese Studies archives from January 1 2001

Formal and informal empire in the history of Portuguese expansion.
January 1, 2001... Portuguese claims to empire during the period of the Discoveries For a long time there has been a problem in finding language which will adequately describe Portuguese overseas expansion and locate its various forms within the paradigms of...

Padre Oliveira's outburst.
January 1, 2001... Charles Boxer's Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825, published in 1969, is regarded as the best one-volume work in English on the subject. To go no further back than Portuguese Studies Review for 1999, Francis Dutra styles it so and Douglas...

Ecclesiastes de Salamam: an unknown biblical translation by Damiao de Gois.
January 1, 2001... The sixteenth century was one of the great ages of biblical translation in the Christian West. The invention of printing, the growth of humanistic scholarship, and dissension within the Church all stimulated the production of a vast number of...

Ottomans as 'Rumes' in Portuguese sources in the sixteenth century.
January 1, 2001... Muytas vezes perguntava [...] a algum soldado branco se era Turco, e respondia que nao, senao que era Rume; e a outras perguntava se erao Turcos. Garcia da Orta (1563) (1) Before the advent of Ottoman rule in the Yemen in 1517, there...

Aceh, Melaka and the Hystoria dos cercos de Malaca of Jorge de Lemos.
January 1, 2001... Melaka's principal enemy for most of the 130 years that it was a Portuguese possession was the north Sumatran sultanate of Aceh. By 1585, the year in which Jorge de Lemos published his Hystoria dos cercos... de Malaca, an account of the series...

Camoes, China and Macau.
January 1, 2001... In Macau, on a wooded hill, overlooking the Old Protestant Cemetery and the offices of the Fundacao Oriente, lie gardens that from the nineteenth century have been known as the gruta de Camoes. Westward there are sweeping views across the Inner...

Hindu medical practice in sixteenth-century western India: evidence from Portuguese sources.
January 1, 2001... There are many studies of ayurvedic medical practice in India in the period before the arrival of Europeans, but most of these are based on normative texts, such as those of Susruta and Caraka. (1) These tell us quite a lot about what healers...

From Viceroy of India to Viceroy of Brazil? The Count of Linhares at court (1636-39).
January 1, 2001... On 15 December 1636 a battered Portuguese Indiaman, the Nossa Senhora de Saude, limped into the port of Malaga after a long and difficult voyage from Goa. On board was D. Miguel de Noronha, fourth Count of Linhares, who was returning to Europe...

To the new world and back: another source for Antonio Jose da Silva's Labirinto de Creta.
January 1, 2001... During 1736, with the publication of the second volume of Bernardo Gomes de Brito's Historia Tragico-Maritima, Lisbon's reading public was vicariously reliving the tragic fate of shipwreck victims of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (1)...

An Asian presence in the Atlantic bullion carrying trade, 1710-50.
January 1, 2001... The eighteenth century saw the consummation of the shift in importance from East to West in the Portuguese empire. From the perspective of the centre, namely Lisbon, one periphery was replaced by another in terms of its importance to the...

The spark: Pombal, the Amazon and the Jesuits.
January 1, 2001... For the past two decades, historians--or many of them--have been downgrading the role of events and of personalities. There has also been a tendency to reject the history of ideas, or at least any easy cause-and-effect interaction between ideas...

Safeguarding Portugal's colonial legacies: Pernambuco's 1848.
January 1, 2001... This article explores economic, social and political relations in the Brazilian northeastern province of Pernambuco during the 1840s. The onset of Liberal rule in the country and in the province in 1843 resulted in massive dismissals of civil...

The presence of East Asia in Some modern Portuguese poets.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... In a fine obituary in The Independent, Professor Russell-Wood spoke of 'a typical Boxer letter' beginning 'I am just back from India and leave for America next week', and going on to give advice about research. My wife and I have both had such...

Angola and Mozambique: the weight of history.
January 1, 2001... In trying to explain the civil conflicts which have ravaged Angola and Mozambique, most observers have focused their attention on the specificities of each case. This article will consider whether a more comparative approach would help to shed...

The controversy over Charles Boxer's Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire 1415-1825.
January 1, 2001... It is the object of [my] book to show that race relations in the old Portuguese colonial empire did not invariably present a picture of harmonious integration. C. R. Boxer The purpose of [Boxer's] book is to demonstrate that the...

The Charles Boxer bibliography.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2001... In 1984 S. George West compiled, with the unacknowledged assistance of Carlos Estorninho, A List of the Writings of Charles Ralph Boxer published between 1926 and 1984. (London: Tamesis Books, 1984). The following is that bibliography, with a...

Bibliographic and research information.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2001... The following pages comprise a list of publications and theses, in English, relating to the Portuguese-speaking world. For the most part the items were published in 1999-2000. Where known, the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is...

Introductory note.(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... This volume of Portuguese Studies is a homage to Charles Boxer, who died in April 2000 at the age of ninety-six. Our focus is not biographical: a recent, massive biography by Dauril Alden, Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Man, provides a detailed...