The Cape Route and the Silk Roads / edited by Carmen Amado Mendes and João Paulo Oliveira e Costa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mendes, Carmen Amado, editor.

e Costa, João Paulo Oliveira, editor.

Series:

Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes ; 11.

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes ; 11

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Studies.

Middle East and Islamic Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Did you know that the fan, which was used in Japan by men, became transformed into a female European accessory when it was adopted by the Portuguese Queen in Lisbon? The Cape Route was opened in 1499 to bring spices to Europe, but the Portuguese vessels also brought other products from the lands of Asia, while European technology and science, Christianity and American silver reached every corner of Asia. The Cape Route enabled products and ideas to circulate within the Silk Roads system, involving Eurasia from West to East, and transformed Lisbon into the hub that spread new patterns of consumption and new fashions in Europe. It also introduced new forms of warfare, new scientific knowledge and a new religion throughout Asia.

Contents:

Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Maps

Introduction

João Paulo Oliveira e Costa and Carmen Amado Mendes

1 Why the Cape Route Should Be Considered Part of the Silk Roads

João Paulo Oliveira e Costa and Isabel Gomes de Almeida

2 Lisbon, the Hub of the Silk Roads in the 16th Century

João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, Sara Ferreira, André Teixeira and José Bettencourt

3 China at Home: Chinese Silks in Portuguese Households during the Early Modern Period

Maria João Ferreira

4 A Global Ship: the Case of the Nossa Senhora da Luz (Faial Island, Azores, 1615)

José Bettencourt

5 The Sea of the Azores within the Silk Routes

Avelino de Freitas de Meneses

6 The Azores and the Legacies of the Silk Roads

Susana Goulart Costa, Rute Dias Gregório and Isabel Soares de Albergaria

7 From China to Europe by Sea: a Maritime Silk Route

André Murteira

8 The Naval Logistic Networks of the Cape Route in the Indian Ocean (159–164) and the Ancient Silk Roads: Rupture or Continuity?

Patrícia Carvalho

9 The Silk Roads from the Perspective of the Carreira da Índia Ships: East Asian Goods in Portugal in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Marco Oliveira Borges

1 Travelling by Land and Sea: Portuguese Adventurers along Eurasian Routes

Carolina Subtil Pereira

11 António Telo de Meneses, a Portuguese Nobleman on the Silk Roads

Teresa Lacerda

12 A Jesuit in Transit in the Seventeenth Century: the Travels of Álvaro Semedo in Europe and Asia

Isabel Murta Pina

13 Macau and the Cape Route

Rui Manuel Loureiro

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Amado Mendes, Carmen The Cape Route and the Silk Roads

ISBN:

9789004762060

OCLC:

1600524373

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004762060 DOI