The Cape Route and the Silk Roads /

The Cape Route and the Silk Roads /

Did you know that the fan, which was used in Japan by men, became transformed into a female European accessory when it was adopted by the Portuguese Queen in Lisbon? The Cape Route was opened in 1499 to bring spices to Europe, but the Portuguese vessels also brought other products from the lands of...

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Other Authors: Mendes, Carmen Amado (Editor), e Costa, João Paulo Oliveira (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes ; 11.
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Asian Studies.
Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Call Number: DS1 .A4915

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Tables and Maps
  • Introduction
  • João Paulo Oliveira e Costa and Carmen Amado Mendes
  • 1 Why the Cape Route Should Be Considered Part of the Silk Roads
  • João Paulo Oliveira e Costa and Isabel Gomes de Almeida
  • 2 Lisbon, the Hub of the Silk Roads in the 16th Century
  • João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, Sara Ferreira, André Teixeira and José Bettencourt
  • 3 China at Home: Chinese Silks in Portuguese Households during the Early Modern Period
  • Maria João Ferreira
  • 4 A Global Ship: the Case of the Nossa Senhora da Luz (Faial Island, Azores, 1615)
  • José Bettencourt
  • 5 The Sea of the Azores within the Silk Routes
  • Avelino de Freitas de Meneses
  • 6 The Azores and the Legacies of the Silk Roads
  • Susana Goulart Costa, Rute Dias Gregório and Isabel Soares de Albergaria
  • 7 From China to Europe by Sea: a Maritime Silk Route
  • André Murteira
  • 8 The Naval Logistic Networks of the Cape Route in the Indian Ocean (159-164) and the Ancient Silk Roads: Rupture or Continuity?
  • Patrícia Carvalho
  • 9 The Silk Roads from the Perspective of the Carreira da Índia Ships: East Asian Goods in Portugal in the 16th and 17th Centuries
  • Marco Oliveira Borges
  • 1 Travelling by Land and Sea: Portuguese Adventurers along Eurasian Routes
  • Carolina Subtil Pereira
  • 11 António Telo de Meneses, a Portuguese Nobleman on the Silk Roads
  • Teresa Lacerda
  • 12 A Jesuit in Transit in the Seventeenth Century: the Travels of Álvaro Semedo in Europe and Asia
  • Isabel Murta Pina
  • 13 Macau and the Cape Route
  • Rui Manuel Loureiro
  • Index.