Portuguese Studies articles from January 1 2005

Portuguese Studies archives from January 1 2005

Body, baths and cloth: Muslim and Christian perceptions in medieval Portugal.
January 1, 2005... The coexistence of three religions in medieval Portugal entailed different cosmological perspectives which determined the cultural boundaries dividing the different ethnic-religious groups. These boundaries were, however, neither firm nor...

Spirituality and women's monastic life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Portugal.
January 1, 2005... In 1739 the Jesuit father Hippolyto Moreyra preached a sermon in the convent of Santa Martha in Lisbon, at the profession ceremony of sister Joaquina Egidia Benta da Natividade, who belonged to a Portuguese noble family. Moreyra's speech is...

Portugal e Brasil em 1875: duas cronicas esquecidas de Oliveira Martins.
January 1, 2005... No tempo relativamente curto da sua vida (1845-1894), Oliveira Martins produziu uma vasta e diversificada obra de historiador, economista, antropologo, critico social e politico, sempre atento a realidade social do seu tempo. Embora muito se...

Critics to enthusiasts: the Hollands discover Portugal.(Lord and Lady Holland )(Henry Richard Vassall)
January 1, 2005... When Lord and Lady Holland arrived in Portugal towards the end of 1808 --their second visit to the Peninsula--they found a country depressed and apathetic. The nation was divided, devastated by the recent French invasion and occupation, and...

The voices of the East Timorese women: after war, before peace.
January 1, 2005... The overthrow of Portugal's Estado Novo regime by the democratic revolution of 25 April 1974 paved the way for the negotiations that led to the independence of its five former African colonies. The same process was initiated in East Timor, the...

From voice to silence: Orpheus and the epitaph in Garcilaso and Camoes.
January 1, 2005... The Spanish poet, Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536), who was to have such a profound and lasting influence on Luis Vaz de Camoes, is a fascinating example of how a Renaissance poet dealt with the twin goals of imitatio and aemulatio, and how, in...

Saintly physician, diabolical doctor, medieval saint: exploring the reputation of Gil de Santarem in Medieval and renaissance Portugal.(Biography)
January 1, 2005... In the National Library of Medicine in the United States can be found a large compilation of herbal recipes entitled Remedies for various illnesses, which was translated from Catalan into Italian in Perpignan on 24 May 1463. The translator...

The rhetoric of empire: gender representations in Portuguese India.
January 1, 2005... The reason I can do English stuff or even sometimes French stuff is not my personal acumen. It's the history of postcolonial peoples. Our access into universality was to learn Western discourse. I call us the wild anthropologists. (Gayatri...

Some notes on the Cortes Polyticas de Appolo by Agostinho Manuel de Vasconcelos.
January 1, 2005... Agostinho Manuel de Vasconcelos wrote a discourse entitled Cortes Polyticas de Appolo. Celebradas neste anno de 1628 na villa de Cintra. Resumidas, e divulgadas por mandado de S. Majestade clarissima pello excelentissimo Mercurio, embaixador, e...

Uma poetica da falta: apresentacao de em seu lugar: poemas reunidos de Felipe Fortuna.
January 1, 2005... Alguns poderiam dizer que e muito cedo para que um poeta de 40 anos publique uma obra reunida. (1) Nao me lembro que idade tinha Drummond quando publicou uma coletanea chamada Fazendeiro do ar & Poesia ate agora, mas a ideia de juntar num livro...

Charles Boxer's use of literary sources for the study of race relations in colonial Brazil and the Maranhao.(Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... Forty years have elapsed since the publication of Charles Boxer's Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825. My purpose here is to discuss Boxer's use of literary sources for the chapter on 'Brazil and the Maranhao'. Boxer's...

Catholic saints, African Gods, black masks and white heads: tracing the history of some religious festivals in Bahia.(Brazil)
January 1, 2005... The festivals of Bonfim in Salvador de Bahia and Boa Morte in Cachoeira have undergone substantial changes in the last century. Originally popular Catholic celebrations, in recent decades they have become publicly associated with Afro-Brazilian...

'A tradition of empire': Fernando Pessoa and Germany.
January 1, 2005... Let us start with what is apparently the most obvious. Alvaro de Campos's invective against Germany in his 'Ultimatum' of 1917 is well known and scarcely needs quotation: Tu, cultura alema, Sparta podre com azeite de cristismo e vinagre de...

Diante do espelho: refracao e iluminacao em Bernardo Carvalho.
January 1, 2005... Ao inves, as linhas que atravessam a profundidade do quadro sao incompletas; falta-lhes a todas uma parte do seu trajecto. Esta lacuna e devida a ausencia do rei--ausencia que e um artificio do pintor. (1) Bernardo Carvalho e, sem duvida,...

Introductory note.
January 1, 2005... If twenty-one years may still be considered a coming-of-age, then this, the inaugural volume of the second series of Portuguese Studies is certainly launched in that spirit--a spirit of confident optimism grounded in two decades of solid...