Jorge Flores
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jorge Flores |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jorge |
| FAMILY NAME | Flores |
| SIGNATURE | FLORES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4895-1759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
There is something at first sight misplaced and yet intriguing about a forum on ‘Iberian Asia’ in a journal called Colonial Latin American Review [CLAR]. The possibility itself stems from the fact
Trent'anni di storiografia sull'Inquisizione portoghese. Quesiti aperti, reticenze, prospettive di ricerca (1978-2008)
An imperial formation joins a composite polity
This essay seeks to understand the workings of Portugal's overseas domains between 1580 and 1640, the time when kingdom and empire found themselves under the umbrella of the Hispanic Monarchy and were ultimately ruled from Madrid in lieu of Lisbon. The authors aim to identify what was new or different during this period with regard to the nature of political information on the Portuguese Empire, and the means of its collection, assessment and tra…
Religion and Empire in Portuguese India
Journal Article Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa, by Ângela Barreto Xavier Get access Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa, by Ângela Barreto Xavier (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2022, pp. 432. $95). Jorge Flores Jorge Flores CIUHCT, University of Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Blood and Boundaries
Iberian Theories of Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Starting from the Iberian reaction to Machiavelli's ideas about religion and war, this article compares and connects Spanish and Portuguese theories of empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Writings by Francisco de Vitoria, Martín de Azpilcueta, and Juan de Solórzano Pereira, as well as by less well-known thinkers, are used to trace the main legal and theological debates over empire that developed across the Iberian world. It is argu…
As monarquias ibéricas e os seus impérios
A oportunidade e os limites de uma história global de Portugal
Este artigo de debate reúne três reflexões críticas a propósito de um livro recente, dedicado à história global de Portugal, e de uma variedade de questões que o tema suscita
Philippine Confluence
Assembling the Tropics
The history of science in the early modern Iberian world is a blooming field. The recent decades have provided excellent contributions in English from historians based in both US and European universities and research centers, not to mention myriad studies authored by scholars based in the Iberian Peninsula, who usually publish in their own languages. As in many other areas of history, the Portuguese side of this story is often the poor cousin. T…
Killing Images
The article builds on a succession of visually disturbing events that occurred in Goa—the capital city of Portuguese India—during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the early years of the Portuguese conquest (1510), Goa went through a redefinition of its urban space, which implied the appropriation and re-semantization of buildings and other key sites of the old Muslim city. This process included the spread of images and symbols relate…
Too Much to Rule
In the past two decades, empires have increasingly attracted the attention of historians of the early modern period to the detriment of the traditional focus on states as the default political unit of analysis. The emergence of global history is not alien to this turn. This article maintains that our understanding of configurations of the early modern political map would only benefit from detaching the history of the state from its European traje…
Portuguese Empire
The entry aims to identify the main features of the Portuguese Asian empire and to discuss briefly the major transformations of the empire from 1500 to 2000. This peculiar imperial structure was one of considerable longevity and, varying with epoch and region, managed to exert a sizeable influence over diverse Asian cultural zones. The Portuguese Asian empire began with the creation of the Estado da Índia in 1505, a few years after the arrival of…
Le « Língua » cosmopolite. Le monde social des interprètes hindous de Goa au xviie siècle
Ce texte vise à discuter des pratiques cosmopolites dans l’Asie du Sud de la première modernité en mettant l’accent sur un groupe de brahmanes qui gagnaient leur vie comme interprètes à Goa, la ville-capitale de l’Estado da Índia. Les personnes choisies par les vice-rois et gouverneurs portugais successifs pour travailler comme chefs-interprètes étaient invariablement Shenvi, un sous-groupe de brahmanes Saraswat de la région de Konkan qui étaient…
The Mogor as Venomous Hydra
The present article seeks to discuss the prevailing ideas and practices of frontier among the Mughals. Concurrently, it considers the ways in which the Portuguese Asian Empire perceived this expanding imperial space. The Mughal emperors engaged in a strong universalistic discourse, which ultimately pointed towards the idea of an infinite Timurid India. To be sure, the Portuguese were hit by this imperial rhetoric, but they rested on intriguing me…
Nas Margens do Hindustão
Nascido em 1526 pela mão de Babur, dominando Agra e Deli, oimpério mogol haveria de crescer paulatinamente nos dois séculos que seseguiram. A sua dimensão máxima foi alcançada em 1689, quando chegou a dominarJinji, no extremo sul da Índia. Nesse preciso momento, o espaço político doimpério quase se confundia com a própria geografia física do subcontinente. Oencontro entre portugueses e mogóis representava
The Mughal Padshah
In The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English translation and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11, the Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals reads quite differently than the usual missionary report. Surviving in four different versions, this text reveals intriguin…
Cosmopolitismes en Asie du Sud
Le cosmopolitisme est-il un enfant de la modernité occidentale ou peut-on le trouver en d’autres temps et d’autres lieux ? Cet ouvrage entend apporter une réponse à cette question aujourd’hui vivement débattue en retraçant ses contours en tant que pratique et Weltanschauung dans une région du monde - l’Asie du Sud - pôle majeur de l’espace de circulation de l’Asie musulmane et nœud des flux humains, matériels et immatériels reliant l’Occident à l…
Una década de altas médicas no efectivizadas en un hospital de Lima, Perú
Our aim is to describe the financial implications of no effective in patient discharges from 2001-2010 from a general hospital in lima city. For this purpose we analyzed the total amounts, cancellations and exonarations from the patient accounts with a non effective medical discharge because of hospital “debts”. We found that the number of patients with a non effective medical discharge decreased 70% from 2001 to 2010, the number of days between …
Conscience and Empire
This article presents the first reconstruction of the relationship between conscience and empire in the Portuguese World between 1500 and 1650. It shows to what extent the foundation of the Mesa da Consciência ("Board of Conscience"), a royal council of theologians devoted to issues like war, commerce, conversion, and slavery, shaped the imperial ideology. In this context, "conscience" emerged as a keyword in the political vocabulary, reflecting …
Una década de altas médicas no efectivizadas en un hospital de Lima, Perú
Our aim is to describe the financial implications of no effective in patient discharges from 2001-2010 from a general hospital in lima city. For this purpose we analyzed the total amounts, cancellations and exonarations from the patient accounts with a non effective medical discharge because of hospital "debts". We found that the number of patients with a non effective medical discharge decreased 70% from 2001 to 2010, the number of days between …
The Sea and the World of the Mutasaddi
This article seeks to trace the profile of the governors ( mutasaddi s) of the main port-cities (especially Surat and, to a lesser extent, Cambay) of the Mughal province of Gujarat in the first half of the seventeenth century. My research on the careers of individual mutasaddi s – based mainly (but not exclusively) on existent Portuguese materials – allows us to better understand the social world of those occupying key positions in the ‘waterfron…
Escravos ameríndios e negros africanos
O objetivo do presente artigo é fazer uma incursão na história conectada dos dois grupos mais discriminados do império português da época moderna, dando particular atenção ao caso da sociedade colonial brasileira: os ameríndios e os negros africanos escravizados. Essa história é resultante de uma complexa teia formada por causas de diversas naturezas. Examinamos aqui três delas: o juízo acerca da capacidade de trabalho, a influência do paradigma …
A. R. Disney, The Portuguese in India and Other Studies, 1500-1700
Quem são os historiadores anglo-americanos que, do pós-guerra aos dias de hoje, moldaram verdadeiramente o nosso conhecimento da «Ásia portuguesa» no período moderno? Para além do incontornável Charles Boxer, há um punhado de nomes que importa considerar. Entre eles, seguramente o de Anthony Disney. Treinado em Harvard por J. H. Parry (autor de The Age of Reconnaissance e The Spanish Seaborne Empire), Disney fez toda a sua (longa) carreira na La …
Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka
Conscience and Empire
This article presents the first reconstruction of the relationship between conscience and empire in the Portuguese World between 1500 and 1650. It shows to what extent the foundation of the Mesa da Consciência ("Board of Conscience"), a royal council of theologians devoted to issues like war, commerce, conversion, and slavery, shaped the imperial ideology. In this context, "conscience" emerged as a keyword in the political vocabulary, reflecting …
The Mughal Padshah
In The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English translation and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11, the Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals reads quite differently than the usual missionary report. Surviving in four different versions, this text reveals intriguin…
Escravos ameríndios e negros africanos
O objetivo do presente artigo é fazer uma incursão na história conectada dos dois grupos mais discriminados do império português da época moderna, dando particular atenção ao caso da sociedade colonial brasileira: os ameríndios e os negros africanos escravizados. Essa história é resultante de uma complexa teia formada por causas de diversas naturezas. Examinamos aqui três delas: o juízo acerca da capacidade de trabalho, a influência do paradigma …
Distant Wonders
The Book of Imaginary Beings, by the celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, appeared in 1969. This was the English translation of the revised and expanded second edition of an anthology of fantastical stories he had published two years before in association with Margarita Guerrero (El Libro de los seres imaginarios). According to the author, it was a 'handbook of the strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imaginat…
The Shadow Sultan
This essay explores the problem of imposture in the Mughal empire, through the case of Sultan Dawar Bakhsh, or Bulaqi, who ruled briefly in the late 1620s. Though official Mughal histories had it that he was executed in January 1628 along with several other princes, various persons claiming his identity surfaced, first in India and then in Iran. We examine the views of Mughal, Portuguese, Iranian and other sources on these claimants, and also exp…
Killing Images
The article builds on a succession of visually disturbing events that occurred in Goa—the capital city of Portuguese India—during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the early years of the Portuguese conquest (1510), Goa went through a redefinition of its urban space, which implied the appropriation and re-semantization of buildings and other key sites of the old Muslim city. This process included the spread of images and symbols relate…
Portuguese Empire
The entry aims to identify the main features of the Portuguese Asian empire and to discuss briefly the major transformations of the empire from 1500 to 2000. This peculiar imperial structure was one of considerable longevity and, varying with epoch and region, managed to exert a sizeable influence over diverse Asian cultural zones. The Portuguese Asian empire began with the creation of the Estado da Índia in 1505, a few years after the arrival of…
A oportunidade e os limites de uma história global de Portugal
Este artigo de debate reúne três reflexões críticas a propósito de um livro recente, dedicado à história global de Portugal, e de uma variedade de questões que o tema suscita
The Mogor as Venomous Hydra
The present article seeks to discuss the prevailing ideas and practices of frontier among the Mughals. Concurrently, it considers the ways in which the Portuguese Asian Empire perceived this expanding imperial space. The Mughal emperors engaged in a strong universalistic discourse, which ultimately pointed towards the idea of an infinite Timurid India. To be sure, the Portuguese were hit by this imperial rhetoric, but they rested on intriguing me…
The Sea and the World of the Mutasaddi
This article seeks to trace the profile of the governors ( mutasaddi s) of the main port-cities (especially Surat and, to a lesser extent, Cambay) of the Mughal province of Gujarat in the first half of the seventeenth century. My research on the careers of individual mutasaddi s – based mainly (but not exclusively) on existent Portuguese materials – allows us to better understand the social world of those occupying key positions in the ‘waterfron…
Relic or Springboard? A note on the 'rebirth' of Portuguese Hughli, ca. 1632-1820
Cael Velho", "Calepatanão" and "Punicale". The Portuguese and the Tambraparni Ports in the Sixteenth Century
Cet article examine les diverses sources portugaises disponibles pour l'étude des ports du delta de la Tambraparni et du Golfe de Mannar dans le courant du XVIe siècle. À travers le récit des rapports de YEstado da India avec les souverains de la région, à Kayalpatnam et à Kilakkarai dans un premier temps, puis à Punnaikayal et enfin à Tuticorin, il dresse un tableau de la vie économique de la région et des luttes entre les communautés musulmanes…
Os Portugueses e o Mar de Ceilão
Relic or Springboard? A note on the 'rebirth' of Portuguese Hughli, ca. 1632-1820
The Shadow Sultan
This essay explores the problem of imposture in the Mughal empire, through the case of Sultan Dawar Bakhsh, or Bulaqi, who ruled briefly in the late 1620s. Though official Mughal histories had it that he was executed in January 1628 along with several other princes, various persons claiming his identity surfaced, first in India and then in Iran. We examine the views of Mughal, Portuguese, Iranian and other sources on these claimants, and also exp…
Distant Wonders
The Book of Imaginary Beings, by the celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, appeared in 1969. This was the English translation of the revised and expanded second edition of an anthology of fantastical stories he had published two years before in association with Margarita Guerrero (El Libro de los seres imaginarios). According to the author, it was a 'handbook of the strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imaginat…
Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka
A. R. Disney, The Portuguese in India and Other Studies, 1500-1700
Quem são os historiadores anglo-americanos que, do pós-guerra aos dias de hoje, moldaram verdadeiramente o nosso conhecimento da «Ásia portuguesa» no período moderno? Para além do incontornável Charles Boxer, há um punhado de nomes que importa considerar. Entre eles, seguramente o de Anthony Disney. Treinado em Harvard por J. H. Parry (autor de The Age of Reconnaissance e The Spanish Seaborne Empire), Disney fez toda a sua (longa) carreira na La …
The Sea and the World of the Mutasaddi
This article seeks to trace the profile of the governors ( mutasaddi s) of the main port-cities (especially Surat and, to a lesser extent, Cambay) of the Mughal province of Gujarat in the first half of the seventeenth century. My research on the careers of individual mutasaddi s – based mainly (but not exclusively) on existent Portuguese materials – allows us to better understand the social world of those occupying key positions in the ‘waterfron…
Escravos ameríndios e negros africanos
O objetivo do presente artigo é fazer uma incursão na história conectada dos dois grupos mais discriminados do império português da época moderna, dando particular atenção ao caso da sociedade colonial brasileira: os ameríndios e os negros africanos escravizados. Essa história é resultante de uma complexa teia formada por causas de diversas naturezas. Examinamos aqui três delas: o juízo acerca da capacidade de trabalho, a influência do paradigma …
Una década de altas médicas no efectivizadas en un hospital de Lima, Perú
Our aim is to describe the financial implications of no effective in patient discharges from 2001-2010 from a general hospital in lima city. For this purpose we analyzed the total amounts, cancellations and exonarations from the patient accounts with a non effective medical discharge because of hospital "debts". We found that the number of patients with a non effective medical discharge decreased 70% from 2001 to 2010, the number of days between …
Una década de altas médicas no efectivizadas en un hospital de Lima, Perú
Our aim is to describe the financial implications of no effective in patient discharges from 2001-2010 from a general hospital in lima city. For this purpose we analyzed the total amounts, cancellations and exonarations from the patient accounts with a non effective medical discharge because of hospital “debts”. We found that the number of patients with a non effective medical discharge decreased 70% from 2001 to 2010, the number of days between …
Conscience and Empire
This article presents the first reconstruction of the relationship between conscience and empire in the Portuguese World between 1500 and 1650. It shows to what extent the foundation of the Mesa da Consciência ("Board of Conscience"), a royal council of theologians devoted to issues like war, commerce, conversion, and slavery, shaped the imperial ideology. In this context, "conscience" emerged as a keyword in the political vocabulary, reflecting …
Le « Língua » cosmopolite. Le monde social des interprètes hindous de Goa au xviie siècle
Ce texte vise à discuter des pratiques cosmopolites dans l’Asie du Sud de la première modernité en mettant l’accent sur un groupe de brahmanes qui gagnaient leur vie comme interprètes à Goa, la ville-capitale de l’Estado da Índia. Les personnes choisies par les vice-rois et gouverneurs portugais successifs pour travailler comme chefs-interprètes étaient invariablement Shenvi, un sous-groupe de brahmanes Saraswat de la région de Konkan qui étaient…
The Mogor as Venomous Hydra
The present article seeks to discuss the prevailing ideas and practices of frontier among the Mughals. Concurrently, it considers the ways in which the Portuguese Asian Empire perceived this expanding imperial space. The Mughal emperors engaged in a strong universalistic discourse, which ultimately pointed towards the idea of an infinite Timurid India. To be sure, the Portuguese were hit by this imperial rhetoric, but they rested on intriguing me…
Nas Margens do Hindustão
Nascido em 1526 pela mão de Babur, dominando Agra e Deli, oimpério mogol haveria de crescer paulatinamente nos dois séculos que seseguiram. A sua dimensão máxima foi alcançada em 1689, quando chegou a dominarJinji, no extremo sul da Índia. Nesse preciso momento, o espaço político doimpério quase se confundia com a própria geografia física do subcontinente. Oencontro entre portugueses e mogóis representava
The Mughal Padshah
In The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English translation and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11, the Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals reads quite differently than the usual missionary report. Surviving in four different versions, this text reveals intriguin…
Cosmopolitismes en Asie du Sud
Le cosmopolitisme est-il un enfant de la modernité occidentale ou peut-on le trouver en d’autres temps et d’autres lieux ? Cet ouvrage entend apporter une réponse à cette question aujourd’hui vivement débattue en retraçant ses contours en tant que pratique et Weltanschauung dans une région du monde - l’Asie du Sud - pôle majeur de l’espace de circulation de l’Asie musulmane et nœud des flux humains, matériels et immatériels reliant l’Occident à l…
Too Much to Rule
In the past two decades, empires have increasingly attracted the attention of historians of the early modern period to the detriment of the traditional focus on states as the default political unit of analysis. The emergence of global history is not alien to this turn. This article maintains that our understanding of configurations of the early modern political map would only benefit from detaching the history of the state from its European traje…
Portuguese Empire
The entry aims to identify the main features of the Portuguese Asian empire and to discuss briefly the major transformations of the empire from 1500 to 2000. This peculiar imperial structure was one of considerable longevity and, varying with epoch and region, managed to exert a sizeable influence over diverse Asian cultural zones. The Portuguese Asian empire began with the creation of the Estado da Índia in 1505, a few years after the arrival of…
Killing Images
The article builds on a succession of visually disturbing events that occurred in Goa—the capital city of Portuguese India—during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the early years of the Portuguese conquest (1510), Goa went through a redefinition of its urban space, which implied the appropriation and re-semantization of buildings and other key sites of the old Muslim city. This process included the spread of images and symbols relate…
Philippine Confluence
Assembling the Tropics
The history of science in the early modern Iberian world is a blooming field. The recent decades have provided excellent contributions in English from historians based in both US and European universities and research centers, not to mention myriad studies authored by scholars based in the Iberian Peninsula, who usually publish in their own languages. As in many other areas of history, the Portuguese side of this story is often the poor cousin. T…
As monarquias ibéricas e os seus impérios
A oportunidade e os limites de uma história global de Portugal
Este artigo de debate reúne três reflexões críticas a propósito de um livro recente, dedicado à história global de Portugal, e de uma variedade de questões que o tema suscita
Blood and Boundaries
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