Francisco Malta Romeiras
Biographic Data
| ID | 1121579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Malta Romeiras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco Malta |
| FAMILY NAME | Romeiras |
| SIGNATURE | ROMEIRAS F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2137-5613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity
The Jesuits’ commitment to paperwork and bureaucracy was a distinctive quality of the Society of Jesus since its foundation in 1540. By examining the catalogues produced in Portugal between 1555 and 1754, we argue that this evaluation of the bodily and spiritual qualities of individual Jesuits, especially of their temperament and ingenuity, left a profound mark in the Jesuits’ way of proceeding and that the compilation of these lists was a means …
Jesuit Astrology
In 1574, the crown endowed the College of Santo Anto (Saint Anthony's) in Lisbon with a generous rent on the spice trade.The royal donation was made in perpetuity and was contingent on the creation of a public course of mathematics.Borrowing its name from John of Sacrobosco's (c.1195Sacrobosco's (c.-c.1256) elementary treatise of astronomy, this course came to be known as "Aula da Esfera" (Class on the sphere).Since there was no fixed schedule no…
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes
In sixteenth-century Lisbon, Aires Vaz and Manuel Rodrigues were summoned to the Inquisition on account of their astrological practices. Records of the trial of Vaz and Rodrigues provide valuable information regarding the training and practice of an astrologer in sixteenth-century Portugal. Prior to this study, however, our knowledge on these matters was scarce and mostly indirect. In this article, we argue that the study of these trial records i…
Defining Nature’s Limits
Journal Article Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science, by Neil Tarrant Get access Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science, by Neil Tarrant (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022; pp. 288. $45). Francisco Malta Romeiras Francisco Malta Romeiras University of Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2137-5613 Search for other works by this…
Res Sinicae
Maximilianus Sandæus, un jésuite entre mystique et symbolique
Maximilianus Sandæus, un jésuite entre mystique et symbolique: Études suivies de l’édition par Mariel Mazzocco des annotations d'Angelus Silesius à la “Pro Theologia Mystica Clavis.” Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, and Clément Duyck, eds. Mystica 13. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019. 398 pp. €52.15. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Brotéria and the Popularization of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Portugal, 1907–24
Brotéria was founded in 1902 as a taxonomy journal of a small Jesuit college in the interior of Portugal. Because the revenue from individual subscriptions was insufficient to cover the costs of publication, Joaquim da Silva Tavares decided to create a magazine in 1907 called Vulgarização científica, which became very popular. Especially designed to make a profit, the journal published more than 450 articles on agriculture, commerce, industry, ch…
Putting the Indices into practice
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Inquisition was the institution most invested in the censorship of printed books in the Portuguese empire. Besides publishing the Indices of Forbidden Books , the Holy Office was also responsible for overseeing their implementation and ensuring their efficacy in preventing the importation, reading, and circulation of banned books. Overall, the sixteenth-century Indices condemned 785 authors and …
The Inquisition and the censorship of science in early modern Europe
Since their decline in the nineteenth century, the early modern Inquisitions have attracted a myriad of scholars. Although it is impossible to reduce this vast production of writings to a single ex
Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and “New Jews”
For the greater credibility
Upon the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858, the Jesuits founded two important colleges that made significant efforts in the promotion of hands-on experimental teaching of the natural sciences. At the Colégio de Campolide (Lisbon, 1858-1910) and the Colégio de São Fiel (Louriçal do Campo, 1863-1910) the Jesuits created modern chemistry and physics laboratories, organized significant botanical, zoological and geological collec…
Guerra aos jesuítas
The Global City
Jesuítas, construtores da globalização
Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck , Entre a caridade e a ciência
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
The Role of Science in the History of Portuguese Anti-Jesuitism
When dealing with the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal and with the building of anti-Jesuitism in the eighteenth century, historians usually focus on their alleged involvement in the attempt to murder king Dom José I and on the complex economical questions related with the foundation of the state trade company in Brazil. However, the Pombaline accusation of obscurantism and scientific illiteracy also played a central role in the history of …
The Inquisition and the censorship of science in early modern Europe
Since their decline in the nineteenth century, the early modern Inquisitions have attracted a myriad of scholars. Although it is impossible to reduce this vast production of writings to a single ex
Guerra aos jesuítas
The Role of Science in the History of Portuguese Anti-Jesuitism
When dealing with the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal and with the building of anti-Jesuitism in the eighteenth century, historians usually focus on their alleged involvement in the attempt to murder king Dom José I and on the complex economical questions related with the foundation of the state trade company in Brazil. However, the Pombaline accusation of obscurantism and scientific illiteracy also played a central role in the history of …
The Role of Science in the History of Portuguese Anti-Jesuitism
When dealing with the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal and with the building of anti-Jesuitism in the eighteenth century, historians usually focus on their alleged involvement in the attempt to murder king Dom José I and on the complex economical questions related with the foundation of the state trade company in Brazil. However, the Pombaline accusation of obscurantism and scientific illiteracy also played a central role in the history of …
Guerra aos jesuítas
The Global City
Jesuítas, construtores da globalização
Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck , Entre a caridade e a ciência
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
For the greater credibility
Upon the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858, the Jesuits founded two important colleges that made significant efforts in the promotion of hands-on experimental teaching of the natural sciences. At the Colégio de Campolide (Lisbon, 1858-1910) and the Colégio de São Fiel (Louriçal do Campo, 1863-1910) the Jesuits created modern chemistry and physics laboratories, organized significant botanical, zoological and geological collec…
Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and “New Jews”
Brotéria and the Popularization of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Portugal, 1907–24
Brotéria was founded in 1902 as a taxonomy journal of a small Jesuit college in the interior of Portugal. Because the revenue from individual subscriptions was insufficient to cover the costs of publication, Joaquim da Silva Tavares decided to create a magazine in 1907 called Vulgarização científica, which became very popular. Especially designed to make a profit, the journal published more than 450 articles on agriculture, commerce, industry, ch…
Putting the Indices into practice
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Inquisition was the institution most invested in the censorship of printed books in the Portuguese empire. Besides publishing the Indices of Forbidden Books , the Holy Office was also responsible for overseeing their implementation and ensuring their efficacy in preventing the importation, reading, and circulation of banned books. Overall, the sixteenth-century Indices condemned 785 authors and …
The Inquisition and the censorship of science in early modern Europe
Since their decline in the nineteenth century, the early modern Inquisitions have attracted a myriad of scholars. Although it is impossible to reduce this vast production of writings to a single ex
Maximilianus Sandæus, un jésuite entre mystique et symbolique
Maximilianus Sandæus, un jésuite entre mystique et symbolique: Études suivies de l’édition par Mariel Mazzocco des annotations d'Angelus Silesius à la “Pro Theologia Mystica Clavis.” Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, and Clément Duyck, eds. Mystica 13. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019. 398 pp. €52.15. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Res Sinicae
Jesuit Astrology
In 1574, the crown endowed the College of Santo Anto (Saint Anthony's) in Lisbon with a generous rent on the spice trade.The royal donation was made in perpetuity and was contingent on the creation of a public course of mathematics.Borrowing its name from John of Sacrobosco's (c.1195Sacrobosco's (c.-c.1256) elementary treatise of astronomy, this course came to be known as "Aula da Esfera" (Class on the sphere).Since there was no fixed schedule no…
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes
In sixteenth-century Lisbon, Aires Vaz and Manuel Rodrigues were summoned to the Inquisition on account of their astrological practices. Records of the trial of Vaz and Rodrigues provide valuable information regarding the training and practice of an astrologer in sixteenth-century Portugal. Prior to this study, however, our knowledge on these matters was scarce and mostly indirect. In this article, we argue that the study of these trial records i…
Defining Nature’s Limits
Journal Article Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science, by Neil Tarrant Get access Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science, by Neil Tarrant (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022; pp. 288. $45). Francisco Malta Romeiras Francisco Malta Romeiras University of Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2137-5613 Search for other works by this…
Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity
The Jesuits’ commitment to paperwork and bureaucracy was a distinctive quality of the Society of Jesus since its foundation in 1540. By examining the catalogues produced in Portugal between 1555 and 1754, we argue that this evaluation of the bodily and spiritual qualities of individual Jesuits, especially of their temperament and ingenuity, left a profound mark in the Jesuits’ way of proceeding and that the compilation of these lists was a means …
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