Chapter 2 Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600

Polónia, Amélia; Capelão, Rosa

doi:10.1515/9781785336102-004

Cooperation and Empire 2022

DOI: 10.1515/9781785336102-004

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Chapter 2 Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600

Amélia Polónia¹,

Rosa Capelão²

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“…This totally misrepresented the rigorous analysis of the actual practices and their implications, abundantly proven by hundreds of documents, many of which had been published for decades. The population of local maritime communities in Portugal was totally neglected, together with the role of local, autochthonous populations, whether in Asia, Africa or Brazil (Polónia 2007;Polónia and Capelão 2017).…”

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Iconoclasm versus Apologetics. How the Salazar Regime Dealt with Portuguese Overseas Expansion

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Historical interpretation of Portuguese Overseas Expansion has changed considerably from the late nineteenth century to the present. Ideological appropriations of historical events are commonplace. The propaganda of the regime of Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar extensively used the topic of Portuguese Overseas Expansion as a founding myth for justifying its own colonialism, even in times when decolonization processes were the common trend. Damnatio memoriae, on the one hand, and apologetics, on the other, were strategies spread from primary school textbooks to university programmes. They were responsible for the exclusion and even persecution of many Portuguese scholars, who had to ask for refuge in other European Universities. It created myths, for example around Henry the Navigator or the Nautical School of Sagres. Key-personalities, such as Magellan, were long defamed as anti-heroes. This article will show how these myths and twisted interpretations are still commonplace today. Even now, many Portuguese feel that, in times of crises, these fictions are used to create a sense of national identity and self-confidence.

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Iconoclasm versus Apologetics. How the Salazar Regime Dealt with Portuguese Overseas Expansion

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2022

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Chapter 2 Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600

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