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Envoys of a Human God
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 453

Envoys of a Human God

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Envoys of A Human God Andreu Martínez offers a comprehensive study of the religious mission led by the Society of Jesus in Christian Ethiopia. The mission to Ethiopia was one of the most challenging undertakings carried out by the Catholic Church in early modern times. The book examines the period of early Portuguese contacts with the Ethiopian monarchy, the mission’s main developments and its aftermath, with the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries. The study profits from both an intense reading of the historical record and the fruits of recent archaeological research. Long-held historiographical assumptions are challenged and the importance of cultural and socio-political factors in the attraction and ultimate estrangement between European Catholics and Ethiopian Christians is highlighted.

The Italian Gothic and Fantastic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

The Italian Gothic and Fantastic

Meanwhile, by assimilating the Other into our own modes of representation of reality and imagination, twentieth-century female writers of the fantastic show how alternative identities can be shaped and social constituencies can be challenged."--BOOK JACKET.

The Evolution of the Portuguese Atlantic: Essays in Honour of Ursula Lamb
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

The Evolution of the Portuguese Atlantic: Essays in Honour of Ursula Lamb

This special issue volume of the Portuguese Studies Review in honor of Ursula Lamb (1914-1996) presents studies by Timothy Coates, A.J.R. Russell-Wood, Ivana Elbl, Alberto Vieira, Martin Malcolm Elbl, Gerardo A. Lorenzino, César Braga-Pinto, Geraldo Pieroni, Janaína Amado, Mark Cooper Emerson, Ernst Pijning, and Kirsten Shultz. The studies explore the themes of settlement, colonization, ethnogenesis, banishment and exile, the intellectual and political construction of colonial identities, cross-cultural urbanism, and regulation of commerce. The volume also includes a bibliography of Ursula Lamb's works.

Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World

During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding services to the Crown. Membership in these military orders was highly prized as status symbols and because of the orders' "purity of blood" statutes, these knighthoods were more highly esteemed than mere patents of nobility, especially since such knighthoods automatically ennobled. Francis A. Dutra has written widely on the Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis - a topic generally neglected by students of early modern Portugal. This volume brings together a selection of his pioneering essays. Based extensively on archival research, they reflect his special interest in social mobility and use of the knighthoods for patronage, while particular sections focus on the role of the orders in the Portuguese maritime expansion and in India and Brazil, and on the medical profession. The collection includes English translations of four studies that originally appeared in Portuguese, as well as a detailed index, in itself a useful research tool.

Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese

Combines theme and genre analysis in a study of the Italian author, from her first literary writings in the 1930s to her novels in the 1990s.

Meu Próprio Negócio
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 92

Meu Próprio Negócio

Os destaques nesta edição são: oficinas mecânicas, empreendimentos favorecidos pela crise e, a compra de franquias por repasse. Vale conferir. Boa leitura e bons negócios.

Novos olhares sobre as Capitanias do Norte do Estado do Brasil
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 180

Novos olhares sobre as Capitanias do Norte do Estado do Brasil

Coletânea com textos sobre as Capitanias do Norte do Estado do Brasil, abordando aspectos econômicos, políticos e culturais do período colonial na América Portuguesa.

Ensaios sobre a América portuguesa
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 201

Ensaios sobre a América portuguesa

Coletânea com textos abordando aspectos econômicos, políticos e culturais da América Portuguesa.

Diasporas within a Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 624

Diasporas within a Diaspora

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-10-11
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume is concerned with the religious, social and commercial 'networking' methods extending over a large part of the world, ranging from the Near East to South America, used by the western Sephardic Jewish diaspora - and the linked 'New Christian' diaspora (in lands where the Inquisition prevailed)- from the mid sixteenth to the mid eighteenth century. Particular attention is given to the role of these unique diasporas in the functioning of the six great European world maritime empires of the time - the Venetian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French. New material and argument is offered relating to the questions of diaspora formation, Sephardic social practices, crypto-Judaism, religious syncretism, cross-cultural brokerage, and the contribution of diasporas to European expansion.

Gazeta das fabricas
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 478

Gazeta das fabricas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1865
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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