Echoes Across Oceans: The Portuguese Global Footprint
IOIBD AGM meeting, 19-22 March 2026 PORTO
Amélia Polónia-University of Porto
The priority of the Portuguese Overseas Expansion
A.
The footprint of POE
B.
New Representations of the World
B.1
Building a global world: transnational, transcultural and transimperial networks
B.1
Contents
Global gendered empires: The role of women in the Portuguese overseas expansion
C.
Transference of Medical Knowledge
D.
How to understand the Portuguese priority in “conquering the oceans”?
- Portugal was a small kingdom, located on the western margin of Europe.
- The crown lacked financial sustainability and real institutional, bureaucratic and administrative apparatus needed to govern an overseas empire.
Lisbon, Portugal
How to understand the Portuguese priority in “conquering the oceans”?
Population Distribution (1527-1532)
- Portugal had a very fragile demographic expression (around one million inhabitants in the second half of the 15th Century).
- It had a territory of less than 100.000 km² and few urban centres except Lisbon with about 60.000 inhabitants in the beginning of the 16th century, followed by Porto (14.000).
Source: Mattoso, III, 232, 238
Portuguese overseas expansion
- Began in the 15th Century.
- Was based on maritime dynamics.
- Established regular maritime runs (the Africa run; the Cape run; the Brazil run; the Terra Nova run).
- Opened a European trend of overseas colonial settlements and colonization processes.
- Contributed to a different conception of the world.
- Contributed to the building of the First Global Age (1400-1800).
- Started dynamics of confrontation as well as of transference of cultural patterns on a large and worldwide scale.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_maritime_exploration
Source: http://www.eurail.com/images/eurail/maps/
Building a worlwide overseas empire through interoceanic routes
A world of men. Discoveries monument (Lisbon, Belém)
A world of men. Discoveries monument (Lisbon, Belém)
Knowledge
Technology
Overseas maritime enterprise
Financial means
Human Resources
Knowledge - The Sagres School – the myth
Source: Advertising image for holidays in Algarve
http://algarveferias.net/sagres/
“The school of Sagres was the 15th
Century NASA” - Portuguese politician, 1987
Source: Allegory to Sagres School. Tile panel (Navy Museum, Lisbon) http://sites.google.com/site/escolaantiga
Main Portuguese SeaportsPopulation Distribution (1527-1532)
Distribution of seafaring communities in 1620
Source: Mattoso, III, 232, 238
Building a global world: new representations of the world
Old and new representations of the world
Building a global world: transnational, transcultural and transimperial networks
Technical flows between continents
- Nautical knowledge: The Toledo School (Muslims, Jewish, Christian)
- Nautical tools:
- The Caravela – a syncretic model (Mediteranean and North Sea).- Astrolabe – the Arabian heritage.- Compass (Chinese/Arabian/Italian /Portuguese).
- Gunpowder (China/ Europe/ East and Far East).
European flows - Co-operators and/or cheaters?
- The discoverers: Genoese, Venetian and Milanese in Portuguese and Spanish overseas expansion: Luís de Cadamosto; Antonio da Noli; Christopher Columbus; Amerigo Vespucci...
- The Portuguese in Spanish expansion: Magellan; Estevão Gomes (Magellan’s pilot); João Dias de Sólis (River Plate discoverer); shipbuilders, seafarers, pilots…
- Cartographers and architects (Filipe Tércio).
- Legal and illegal emigrants in Portuguese and Spanish Overseas empires.
- Travellers: Tavernier; Pyrard de Laval; Mandelslo; Linschoten, …
Crossing Frontiers/Crossing Empires
A Portuguese Crossing the Oceans… at the service of Spain
Source: Fernandus Magallanis Lusitanis (Giovanni Stradano – Paris, Biblioteca Nacional) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viennahttps://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernão_de_Magalhães
Human flows between continents
- Multinational armies (multi-national European mercenaries in overseas armies).
- Multinational crews (Arab, Guajarati, Javanese and Malay pilots present on Portuguese voyages from Malabar to Ceylon, Melaka, the Sunda Islands, Java, the Maluku islands, Sumatra and Siam).
- International labour markets.
- Legal and illegal spontaneous migration between continents and empires.
Making the world global
“Deep down, where the continents end, Iberian navigators found passages to consolidate their empires under construction, plying the seas. The Portuguese reached the Cape of Good Hope, through which they accessed the rich and fascinating East of spices. The Castilians were given Magellan's passage, the Strait, access to the South Seas. It was the culmination of a ‘race’ for the same goals: direct connection to the Eastern worlds and the endless riches they offered. The story of Magellan, whom they called the “captain of the end of the world,” was a story of maritime exploration. It was a search for western access to those areas that the Portuguese had begun to explore from the Indian Ocean. The arrival at the Spice Islands, the Moluccas, where Francisco Serrão, a relative of the captain, was traveling, motivated the voyage that changed the world. The circumnavigation. Long and uncertain; amid advances, setbacks, calms, and mutinies, its protagonists progressed to southern latitudes never before traveled by Europeans, found access through South America, and discovered the vastness of the Pacific”.
The “Adam’s will” – the division of the world
(A. Polónia, A. Barros, 2024)
Overseas Expansion
Global Impact
Migrations beetween worlds
Mercantile economy
Ecological Impact
World Economy
Comunication on a global scale
Structural consequences
Material cultural - a new dimension
New values
New representations (Literature/ Cartography)
New scientific and technological patterns
New economic
order and
geography
Gendered Empires
Portuguese Overseas Expansion
Emigration
Trade
Navigation
Male absences
Socio economic context
Labour market
Family context
Demographic context
“Women who stay” - higher social protagonism
Gendering Empires
Women on the move
Autochthone women
Women as brokers and go-betweens
Different models of family and sexuality
Women’s resistance
Women's performances overseas
Women as colonisers
Women on board
Women as colonisers
Women’s roles in colonial contexts. Africa, Asia, and Brazil.
- Pivot of the family.
- Agents of social self-control.
- Economic partners.
- Administrative and political agents.
- Family roots.
- Essential element for the growth of the Portuguese population.
- Strategic element in the definition of political and economic oligarchies through family alliances.
Source: Mujer portuguesa en palanquin. Goa. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codice_Casanatense_Portuguese_Noblewoman_on_a_Palanquin.png
The importance of mixed-race women
Women as go-betweens
Source: 1. Goa, Ilustração de Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Itinerario, gravura a cor
de Johannes Baptisra van Doetechum, o jovem, c. 1579-1592
In Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert de Jan Huygen van Linschoten, 1596.
2. Portuguese Traders in Hormuz, Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, circa 1540.
3. Europe supported by Africa and America, Wiiliam Blake, 1796
Women as go-betweens
- Women as empire builders. Intermingled marriages - the Portuguese casados and casadas.
- Women as economic agents.
- Connecting worlds. Women in dialogue in intercultural setups.
- Knowledge transferences. Medical practices and medical knowledge.
Fernão Mendes Pinto - Peregrinação
Miniatura de Fernão Mendes Pinto, Séc. XIX,
“To understand why this message was sent by a woman rather than a man, one must realise that it has always been a very ancient custom among the kings of these kingdoms, from the very beginning, to deal with matters of great importance - and those requiring peace and harmony - through women; and this applies not only to private messages which lords send to their vassals, as is the case here, but also to public and general matters which some kings discuss with others through their embassies; and they give as the reason for this that to women, by the gentleness of their nature, God has given greater affability, authority and other qualities so that they may be more respected than men, for men are harsh and, therefore, less agreeable to the party to whom they are sent” .
Women as Messengers and Diplomats
Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinação, publ. Amélia Polónia, Rosa Capelão, coord., Primera obra de aventura y contactos intercivilizacionales, José Eduardo Franco, Carlos Fiolhais, dir., Obras pioneras de la cultura portuguesa, 19, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2018, p. 603.
Detalhe, Biombo Namban
Bibi Juliyana
Horsewomen
Transference of Medical Knowledge
- Production and circulation of knowledge in the Early Modern Age under the premises of colonialism.
- Modern science is understood as global while being the result of intricate local processes.
- Against a diffusionist model : polycentric and local production of knowledge is potentiated, through negotiation processes, by its global circulation.
Transference of knowledge within and between multicultural worlds
- The Early Modern colonial empires connected a wide variety of peoples and cultural complexes all over the world.
- The focus is on the relation between local processes of knowledge production and its connection with wider contexts, as the local and global levels became vital in this context.
- Local factors, processes of exchange, negotiation and reconfiguration are paramount in this analysis, as is the role of brokers and go-betweens – intermediaries between different worlds, eventually asynchronic, but synchronically connected by the contingencies of colonialism (K. Raj).
- This also applies to women as go-betweens in this area of research (see Polónia & Capelão).
Transference of knowledge within and between multicultural worlds: Results
- While in the last years historiographical revisions have occurred both in colonial studies and the history of sciences, those tend to progress along two parallel lines, without effective communication or reciprocal understanding.
- Knowledge production would no longer be related only with “scientific knowledge”, as upheld by traditional works in the field of history of sciences.
- This process also involves wide-ranging practical knowledge and its global circulation, allowing knowledge production mechanisms to be understood as a more complex system.
Transference of knowledge within and between multicultural worlds: Results
“The first Moor whom I forbade to performe his solemn circumcision was a noble and honourable Moor from Quirimba, named Maçuco, a great friend of mine and brother of an elderly Moorish woman named Manâsùa, a great teacher, who had cured me of the fever she had given me with great care, for which I was very grateful to her”.
Practices of medicine
João dos Santos, Ethiopia Oriental, e Varia historia de cousas, notáveis do Oriente, e da Christandade que os Religiosos da Ordem dos Pregadores nelle fizeram, 2 vols (Évora: Manoel de Lira, 1608-1609), vol. 2, p. 77.
Arab and Ethiopian inhabitants of Goa, Indiae Orientallis, Frankfurt, 1599. Theodor de Bry.
“and this one from Java [galangal] has leaves like a large spear, and bears white flowers; it produces seeds, but is not sown with them, although in this land it is sown in vegetable gardens in small quantities, namely, that which is used in the country in salads and in the remedies of the Indian people, mainly those who come from Java, who are midwives (whom they call daias) and have the role of physicians here”.
Garcia da Orta, Coloquios dos Simples e drogas da India. Edição Publicada pela Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, Vol. 1 (Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1891), p. 354.
Alpinia Galanga, 1813
Norm & resistance
“that no Christian woman in labour should call upon an infidel midwife, on pain of whatever punishment the Prelate may deem fit”
Diocesan Council of Goa, 1567, APO, fascicle 4, p. 25
“no Christian woman shall call upon a daya, or an infidel midwife, during childbirth, nor shall she have infidel wet nurses without the Prelate’s permission, on pain of whatever punishment he may deem fit”.
Diocesan Constitutions of Goa, 1585, APO, fascicle 4, p. 133
In-between worlds.The norm and resistance
“No Christian woman shall avail herself of an infidel midwife for her care or childbirth, except where there is no Christian midwife, for in this case she may avail herself of the infidel, provided that two honest Christian women are always present during her care and childbirth, so as not to allow any superstitions”.
Provincial Council of Goa, 1606, APO, fascicle 4, pp. 263–264
“No one shall take a Gentile wet nurse to nurse their children, on pain of a fine of fifty pardáos; and if she is a Moorish woman, in addition to the same penalty, she shall incur a major excommunication, since it is certain that children adopt the customs of those who raise them and continue to follow them once they have been raised”.
In-between worlds.
The norm and resistance
Concílio ProvincQuarta. Decreto 8. APO,ial de Goa, 1606. Acção fascículo 4, pp. 263-264. J.H. da Cunha Rivara, Archivo Portuguez Oriental, 6 vols. (Nova-Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1857-1876), Fasc. 4, 25, 263-264.
Gujarai Women, Biblioteca Casanatense, circa 1540
«In the Kingdom of Siam (Thailand), the locals spent much of their time indulging in pleasures and vices. The women devised the ‘shameful’ (disgraceful) practice of using rattles, which the men would insert into their genitals.”
Different sexualities and relationships with the body
João de Barros, Década Terceira da Asia, 1628.
Couple from the Kingdom of Pegu (Bago) in Bruma. Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, circa 1540.
From the East to Africa. From the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic: Forms of resistance among indigenous women
”And there ought to be not even fewer [white men] on the galleys, for many reasons, because they are of little use in this land, and one black man is worth more for rowing than two of them. And because they are almost always ill, and a burden on the infirmary, and what is incomparably worse, because many of them are living with black women, who are known to cause miscarriages, either by killing the babies after birth or by inducing abortions, which is proven by the fact that whilst living with them, and their bellies swell, there is not a single mulatto in the whole village, though there would be so many if the black women gave birth in safety”.
António Brásio, Monumenta Missionaria Africana. África Ocidental (1570-1599), Vol. III, (Lisboa: Agencia Geral do Ultramar, 1953), pp. 90-91.
Europe supported by Africa and America, Wiiliam Blake, 1796
… the one million-dollar question
- Did the contact with African and Eastern cultures - and their models of family and femininity - have a significant impact on the early modern and Christian image of women?
- How might the status of these other women have influenced - whether as a model or as an aberration - the status of European women?
- Although there is no shortage of sources, ranging from travel accounts to missionaries’ letters, nothing has been studied from this perspective.
This would indeed be another echo of the POE
Thank you for bearing with me in this rather brief and incomplete reflection on some of the echoes of the Portuguese Overseas Expansion
The Magellan adventure – Storytelling of an (un)successful plan
Source: Fernandus Magallanis Lusitanis (Giovanni Stradano – Paris, Biblioteca Nacional) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viennahttps://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernão_de_Magalhães
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Echoes Across Oceans: The Portuguese Global Footprint
IOIBD AGM meeting, 19-22 March 2026 PORTO
Amélia Polónia-University of Porto
The priority of the Portuguese Overseas Expansion
A.
The footprint of POE
B.
New Representations of the World
B.1
Building a global world: transnational, transcultural and transimperial networks
B.1
Contents
Global gendered empires: The role of women in the Portuguese overseas expansion
C.
Transference of Medical Knowledge
D.
How to understand the Portuguese priority in “conquering the oceans”?
Lisbon, Portugal
How to understand the Portuguese priority in “conquering the oceans”?
Population Distribution (1527-1532)
Source: Mattoso, III, 232, 238
Portuguese overseas expansion
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_maritime_exploration
Source: http://www.eurail.com/images/eurail/maps/
Building a worlwide overseas empire through interoceanic routes
A world of men. Discoveries monument (Lisbon, Belém)
A world of men. Discoveries monument (Lisbon, Belém)
Knowledge
Technology
Overseas maritime enterprise
Financial means
Human Resources
Knowledge - The Sagres School – the myth
Source: Advertising image for holidays in Algarve http://algarveferias.net/sagres/
“The school of Sagres was the 15th Century NASA” - Portuguese politician, 1987
Source: Allegory to Sagres School. Tile panel (Navy Museum, Lisbon) http://sites.google.com/site/escolaantiga
Main Portuguese SeaportsPopulation Distribution (1527-1532)
Distribution of seafaring communities in 1620
Source: Mattoso, III, 232, 238
Building a global world: new representations of the world
Old and new representations of the world
Building a global world: transnational, transcultural and transimperial networks
Technical flows between continents
- Nautical knowledge: The Toledo School (Muslims, Jewish, Christian)
- Nautical tools:
- The Caravela – a syncretic model (Mediteranean and North Sea).- Astrolabe – the Arabian heritage.- Compass (Chinese/Arabian/Italian /Portuguese).European flows - Co-operators and/or cheaters?
Crossing Frontiers/Crossing Empires
A Portuguese Crossing the Oceans… at the service of Spain
Source: Fernandus Magallanis Lusitanis (Giovanni Stradano – Paris, Biblioteca Nacional) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viennahttps://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernão_de_Magalhães
Human flows between continents
Making the world global
“Deep down, where the continents end, Iberian navigators found passages to consolidate their empires under construction, plying the seas. The Portuguese reached the Cape of Good Hope, through which they accessed the rich and fascinating East of spices. The Castilians were given Magellan's passage, the Strait, access to the South Seas. It was the culmination of a ‘race’ for the same goals: direct connection to the Eastern worlds and the endless riches they offered. The story of Magellan, whom they called the “captain of the end of the world,” was a story of maritime exploration. It was a search for western access to those areas that the Portuguese had begun to explore from the Indian Ocean. The arrival at the Spice Islands, the Moluccas, where Francisco Serrão, a relative of the captain, was traveling, motivated the voyage that changed the world. The circumnavigation. Long and uncertain; amid advances, setbacks, calms, and mutinies, its protagonists progressed to southern latitudes never before traveled by Europeans, found access through South America, and discovered the vastness of the Pacific”.
The “Adam’s will” – the division of the world
(A. Polónia, A. Barros, 2024)
Overseas Expansion Global Impact
Migrations beetween worlds
Mercantile economy
Ecological Impact
World Economy
Comunication on a global scale
Structural consequences
Material cultural - a new dimension
New values
New representations (Literature/ Cartography)
New scientific and technological patterns
New economic order and geography
Gendered Empires
Portuguese Overseas Expansion
Emigration
Trade
Navigation
Male absences
Socio economic context
Labour market
Family context
Demographic context
“Women who stay” - higher social protagonism
Gendering Empires
Women on the move
Autochthone women
Women as brokers and go-betweens
Different models of family and sexuality
Women’s resistance
Women's performances overseas
Women as colonisers
Women on board
Women as colonisers
Women’s roles in colonial contexts. Africa, Asia, and Brazil.
Source: Mujer portuguesa en palanquin. Goa. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codice_Casanatense_Portuguese_Noblewoman_on_a_Palanquin.png
The importance of mixed-race women
Women as go-betweens
Source: 1. Goa, Ilustração de Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Itinerario, gravura a cor de Johannes Baptisra van Doetechum, o jovem, c. 1579-1592 In Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert de Jan Huygen van Linschoten, 1596. 2. Portuguese Traders in Hormuz, Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, circa 1540. 3. Europe supported by Africa and America, Wiiliam Blake, 1796
Women as go-betweens
Fernão Mendes Pinto - Peregrinação
Miniatura de Fernão Mendes Pinto, Séc. XIX,
“To understand why this message was sent by a woman rather than a man, one must realise that it has always been a very ancient custom among the kings of these kingdoms, from the very beginning, to deal with matters of great importance - and those requiring peace and harmony - through women; and this applies not only to private messages which lords send to their vassals, as is the case here, but also to public and general matters which some kings discuss with others through their embassies; and they give as the reason for this that to women, by the gentleness of their nature, God has given greater affability, authority and other qualities so that they may be more respected than men, for men are harsh and, therefore, less agreeable to the party to whom they are sent” .
Women as Messengers and Diplomats
Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinação, publ. Amélia Polónia, Rosa Capelão, coord., Primera obra de aventura y contactos intercivilizacionales, José Eduardo Franco, Carlos Fiolhais, dir., Obras pioneras de la cultura portuguesa, 19, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2018, p. 603.
Detalhe, Biombo Namban
Bibi Juliyana
Horsewomen
Transference of Medical Knowledge
Transference of knowledge within and between multicultural worlds
Transference of knowledge within and between multicultural worlds: Results
Transference of knowledge within and between multicultural worlds: Results
“The first Moor whom I forbade to performe his solemn circumcision was a noble and honourable Moor from Quirimba, named Maçuco, a great friend of mine and brother of an elderly Moorish woman named Manâsùa, a great teacher, who had cured me of the fever she had given me with great care, for which I was very grateful to her”.
Practices of medicine
João dos Santos, Ethiopia Oriental, e Varia historia de cousas, notáveis do Oriente, e da Christandade que os Religiosos da Ordem dos Pregadores nelle fizeram, 2 vols (Évora: Manoel de Lira, 1608-1609), vol. 2, p. 77.
Arab and Ethiopian inhabitants of Goa, Indiae Orientallis, Frankfurt, 1599. Theodor de Bry.
“and this one from Java [galangal] has leaves like a large spear, and bears white flowers; it produces seeds, but is not sown with them, although in this land it is sown in vegetable gardens in small quantities, namely, that which is used in the country in salads and in the remedies of the Indian people, mainly those who come from Java, who are midwives (whom they call daias) and have the role of physicians here”.
Garcia da Orta, Coloquios dos Simples e drogas da India. Edição Publicada pela Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, Vol. 1 (Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1891), p. 354.
Alpinia Galanga, 1813
Norm & resistance
“that no Christian woman in labour should call upon an infidel midwife, on pain of whatever punishment the Prelate may deem fit”
Diocesan Council of Goa, 1567, APO, fascicle 4, p. 25
“no Christian woman shall call upon a daya, or an infidel midwife, during childbirth, nor shall she have infidel wet nurses without the Prelate’s permission, on pain of whatever punishment he may deem fit”.
Diocesan Constitutions of Goa, 1585, APO, fascicle 4, p. 133
In-between worlds.The norm and resistance
“No Christian woman shall avail herself of an infidel midwife for her care or childbirth, except where there is no Christian midwife, for in this case she may avail herself of the infidel, provided that two honest Christian women are always present during her care and childbirth, so as not to allow any superstitions”.
Provincial Council of Goa, 1606, APO, fascicle 4, pp. 263–264
“No one shall take a Gentile wet nurse to nurse their children, on pain of a fine of fifty pardáos; and if she is a Moorish woman, in addition to the same penalty, she shall incur a major excommunication, since it is certain that children adopt the customs of those who raise them and continue to follow them once they have been raised”.
In-between worlds. The norm and resistance
Concílio ProvincQuarta. Decreto 8. APO,ial de Goa, 1606. Acção fascículo 4, pp. 263-264. J.H. da Cunha Rivara, Archivo Portuguez Oriental, 6 vols. (Nova-Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1857-1876), Fasc. 4, 25, 263-264.
Gujarai Women, Biblioteca Casanatense, circa 1540
«In the Kingdom of Siam (Thailand), the locals spent much of their time indulging in pleasures and vices. The women devised the ‘shameful’ (disgraceful) practice of using rattles, which the men would insert into their genitals.”
Different sexualities and relationships with the body
João de Barros, Década Terceira da Asia, 1628.
Couple from the Kingdom of Pegu (Bago) in Bruma. Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, circa 1540.
From the East to Africa. From the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic: Forms of resistance among indigenous women
”And there ought to be not even fewer [white men] on the galleys, for many reasons, because they are of little use in this land, and one black man is worth more for rowing than two of them. And because they are almost always ill, and a burden on the infirmary, and what is incomparably worse, because many of them are living with black women, who are known to cause miscarriages, either by killing the babies after birth or by inducing abortions, which is proven by the fact that whilst living with them, and their bellies swell, there is not a single mulatto in the whole village, though there would be so many if the black women gave birth in safety”.
António Brásio, Monumenta Missionaria Africana. África Ocidental (1570-1599), Vol. III, (Lisboa: Agencia Geral do Ultramar, 1953), pp. 90-91.
Europe supported by Africa and America, Wiiliam Blake, 1796
… the one million-dollar question
This would indeed be another echo of the POE
Thank you for bearing with me in this rather brief and incomplete reflection on some of the echoes of the Portuguese Overseas Expansion
The Magellan adventure – Storytelling of an (un)successful plan
Source: Fernandus Magallanis Lusitanis (Giovanni Stradano – Paris, Biblioteca Nacional) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viennahttps://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernão_de_Magalhães
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