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The Dream of Christian Nagasaki
Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The Jesuits had come to convert the Japanese. After baptizing a Japanese lord or daimyo of the area, they established Nagasaki in 1571 to provide the Portuguese a safe harbor in his domain. Profits for the daimyo and the Japanese who converted to Christianity soon followed. This book is the first comprehensive history in any language of the rise and fall of Christian Nagasaki (1560-1640). The author provides a narrative of the city's early years from both the European and Japanese perspectives.
Gender and the Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia
This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700. Using the life-stage framework popular in texts of the period and drawing on a broad spectrum of materials including conduct guidebooks, treatises and conventual rules, this book examines the constraints imposed by gender-related social structures through microhistories of nuns, married, and unmarried women. The text spans class boundaries in its analysis of the work of painters, engravers, and sculptors, many of whom have until now eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications. An extensive bibliography promotes new avenues of inquiry into women’s contributions to the visual arts of the period. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, women’s history, early modern Iberian studies, and Renaissance studies.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Race to the New World
The final decade of the fifteenth century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a fellow Italian explorer for hire, John Cabot, set off on his own journey, under England's flag. Here, Douglas Hunter tells the fascinating tale of how, during this expedition, Columbus gained a rival. In the space of a few critical years, these two men engaged in a high-stakes race that threatened the precarious diplomatic balance of Europe-to exploit what they believed was a shortcut to staggering wealth. Instead, they found a New World that neither was looking for. Hunter provides a revelatory look at how the lives of Columbus and Cabot were interconnected, and how neither explorer can be understood properly without understanding both. Together, Cabot and Columbus provide a novel and important perspective on the first years of European experience of the New World.
A biblioteca particular de Calvet de Magalhães
Num quadro, em que se tecem perspectivas diferentes e múltiplas estratégias de abordagem, muitas questões de ordem sistémica se levantam. Que livros possuía? O que lia Calvet de Magalhães? Qual a sua relação com os livros? Quais as suas preferências intelectuais? Qual o seu universo intelectual? Assim, os livros que compõem a BpCM constituem um manancial rico de informações e revelam-se um testemunho importante da formação do pensamento de um dos principais protagonistas da aproximação portuguesa aos movimentos de cooperação económica europeia do pós II Guerra Mundial e da articulação portuguesa com a Europa e com o Atlântico. Na verdade, a BpCM fixa o seu olhar, o seu pensamento, a sua análise do mundo, bem como regista algumas linhas de força que pautaram toda a sua vida. Disto é exemplo a necessidade de uma acção constante, concreta e eficaz, sempre ancorada na utopia que em Calvet de Magalhães se apresentava como fruto da História e da Filosofia, daí ser sempre realizável.
