scholarly journals Cagle, Hugh. Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700. Cambridge UP, 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josiah Blackmore
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Tropics

Assembling the Tropics studies the creation of the idea of the "tropics" as a coherent global region in early modern Portuguese empire, using writings on fever, medicine, natural history, plants and drugs, and disease as the basis of analysis.

Quest for Permanence in the Tropics: Portuguese Bioprospecting in Asia (16th-18th Centuries)

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines G. Županov ◽  
Ângela Barreto Xavier
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
The People ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
British Experience ◽  
The Tropics

The history of agricultural, botanical, pharmacological, and medical exchanges is one of the most fascinating chapters in early modern natural history. Until recently, however, historiography has been dominated by the British experience from the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, with Kew Gardens at the center of the “green imperialism.” In this article we address the hard-won knowledge acquired by those who participated in early modern Portuguese imperial bioprospecting in Asia. The Portuguese were the first to transplant important economic plants from one continent to another, on their imposing colonial chessboard. In spite of this, the history of Portuguese bioprospecting is still fragmentary, especially with respect to India and the Indian Ocean. We argue not only that the Portuguese—imperial officials, missionaries, and the people connected with them, all living and working under the banner of the Portuguese empire—were interested in gathering knowledge but also that the results of their endeavors were relevant for the development of natural history in the early modern period and that they were important actors within the larger community of naturalists.

The Russian Holy Synod and the Greeks

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 72-98
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Chrissidis
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Greek History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

Abstract The article first surveys Greek interpretations of the creation of the Russian Holy Synod by Peter the Great. It provides a critical assessment of the historiographical paradigm offered by N.F. Kapterev for the analysis of Greek-Russian relations in the early modern period. Finally, it proposes that scholars should focus on a Greek history of Greek-Russian relations as a complement and possibly corrective to the Kapterev paradigm.

A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State.

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Thomas Kuehn ◽  
Giovanna Benadusi
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The State ◽  
The Creation

The Casa da Índia and the Emergence of a Science of Administration in the Portuguese Empire

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 327-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ângela Barreto Xavier
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Critical Dimension ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
And Storage ◽  
At Home

Abstract The role played by archives in the making of a Portuguese science of imperial administration is scarcely known. Systematic research is still lacking on what literature suggests was a critical dimension in the management of the empire. By focusing on the Casa da Índia’s activities of production, record-keeping and retrieving of information and knowledge, this study intends to contribute to a better understanding of the links between empire and Portuguese early-modern archival experiences. For more than a century, the Casa da Índia was the institution responsible for the circulation and storage of commodities, information and people within the Portuguese empire, as well as the payment of duties and taxes. What challenges did territorial expansion entail for the Portuguese monarchy, and, in particular, for its archival organization and practices? How did the Casa da Índia register these imperial dynamics? Did its archive materialize the Empire at home? Finally, was its archive relevant to the emergence of a Portuguese science of imperial administration?

A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
R. Burr Litchfield ◽  
Giovanna Benadusi
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The State ◽  
The Creation

scholarly journals Circulation of images and graphic practices in Renaissance natural history: the example of Conrad Gessner

Gesnerus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-72
Author(s):  
Florike Egmond ◽  
Sachiko Kusukawa
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Actual Mechanism ◽  
Multiple Copies ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

Conrad Gessner’s Historia animalium is a compilation of information from a variety of sources: friends, correspondents, books, broadsides, drawings, as well as his own experience. The recent discovery of a cache of drawings at Amsterdam originally belonging to Gessner has added a new dimension for research into the role of images in Gessner’s study of nature. In this paper, we examine the drawings that were the basis of the images in the volume of fishes. We uncovered several cases where there were multiple copies of the same drawing of a fish (rather than multiple drawings of the same fish), which problematizes the notion of unique “original” copies and their copies. While we still know very little about the actual mechanism of, or people involved in, commissioning or generating copies of drawings, their very existence suggests that the images functioned as an important medium in the circulation of knowledge in the early modern period.

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