The Portuguese Seaborne Empire: 1415-1825

Visualizing the Portuguese Empire expansion and decline

This paper describes a project that aims to visualize the expansion and decline of the Portuguese Empire. Two distinct forms of visualization were produced, one relating to the expansion and the other to the decline. The first makes use of The Lusiads to extract a general tone for the Portuguese achievements. A series of images were produced displaying the analysis. The second visualization is ...

Mapping Maritime Triumph and the Enchantment of Empire: Portuguese Literature of the Renaissance

461 When the Jesuit António Vieira composed his sermons and visionary tracts in the middle of the seventeenth century, maps great and small emanated like puffs of smoke from his fiery prose. The world was ablaze—or might eventually catch fire if Vieira’s audience did not heed his prophetic warnings—and the map was fodder for the terrestrial conflagration, a tool that could encompass and describ...

How the East was Lost: Institutions and Culture in 16 Century Portuguese Empire

The Obstetric Society of 1825.

In November 1825, the exact date is not recorded, a group of gentlemen met in the Savile Row house of an ambitious young man of Anglo-Italian extraction, Augustus Bozzi Granville, and resolved to form an Obstetric Society to procure, by legislation, the regulation of the obstetric profession, both male and female.1 Man-midwifery was by then an important element of the stock-in-trade of the surg...

The British Empire Exhibition