A GRANDE AVENTURA DE FERNÃO DE MAGALHÃES NA CRONÍSTICA PORTUGUESA DO SÉCULO XVI16世紀葡國編年史中的麥哲倫冒險之旅
This article analyzes the reception of Fernão de Magalhães’s “great adventure” in sixteenth-century Portuguese chronicle writing, arguing that the narrative construction of the episode results not only from documentary gaps, but from representational choices that condition the attribution of politic...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
January 2006
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40017/3776 |
| Summary: | This article analyzes the reception of Fernão de Magalhães’s “great adventure” in sixteenth-century Portuguese chronicle writing, arguing that the narrative construction of the episode results not only from documentary gaps, but from representational choices that condition the attribution of political and moral meaning to the voyage. Through a comparative reading of Portuguese chroniclers—with particular emphasis on Fernão Lopes de Castanheda and the humanist mediation of later traditions—the author examines how categories such as “treason,” “grievance,” and “breach of faith” were mobilized to frame Magalhães’s departure from the Manueline order and his eventual alignment with the monarchy of Charles V. Methodologically, the study reconstructs the “memorial order” of chronicle discourses, confronting the narration with the way it incorporates (or silences) memories and interrogations of participants involved in networks of power and commerce in Southeast Asia. The conclusion is that the Portuguese chronicles function simultaneously as testimony and as an interpretive device: by reorganizing facts, they reveal access to official archives and, above all, produce categories that reconfigure the consequences of the expedition in Luso-Iberian political and commercial circulation, including the role of private agents in the Moluccan spice trade. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |