A VIAGEM DE FERNÃO DE MAGALHÃES E A CONTRA-VIAGEM MANUELINA (1519-1522) NOVOS PROBLEMAS, PERSPECTIVAS E DEBATES麥哲倫之航與馬努埃爾之對向航行 (1519 - 1522)：新問題，透視與辦論
The article proposes a critical recontextualization of the voyage of Fernão de Magalhães (1519–1522) and the so-called “Manueline counter-voyage”, arguing that the enterprise should not be read primarily as an intended circumnavigation, but as a project aimed at reaching the Moluccas via a western r...
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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/40017/3773 |
| Summary: | The article proposes a critical recontextualization of the voyage of Fernão de Magalhães (1519–1522) and the so-called “Manueline counter-voyage”, arguing that the enterprise should not be read primarily as an intended circumnavigation, but as a project aimed at reaching the Moluccas via a western route not previously traversed. The author frames the endeavor within the Iberian competition in Southeast Asia, highlighting that the Luso-Spanish demarcation of the world, inspired by the Treaty of Tordesillas, generated relevant negotiations and restrictions, including the prohibition of sailing through areas of the Indian Ocean considered under Portuguese influence. Methodologically, the text articulates historiographical analysis and comparative reading, revisiting sixteenth-century Portuguese productions and contrasting them with contemporary approaches, especially from the end of the nineteenth century, in order to overcome panegyric limitations and critically reconstruct the political-economic context. As results, the tripartite structure of the voyage (southern America, vastness of the Pacific, and Philippine islands) is identified, and its cultural inscription in the European Renaissance is problematized, as it spurred cartography and debates over jurisdiction of the Moluccas. It concludes that Magalhães projects, with particular tenacity, a decisive stage of the first globalization, reconfiguring geographical knowledge and imperial disputes. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |