Member Since:
May 15, 2023
Matthew T. Racine
Books
A Pearle for a Prynce: Jerónimo Osório and Early Elizabethan Catholics
by Matthew T. Racine
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 11,340.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 15, 2023
by
Eclectic Esquire Media, LLC.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » Renaissance, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religious history, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Great Britain, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Spain & Portugal, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Blasphemy, Heresy, & Apostasy
In 1562, Jerónimo Osório, a Portuguese Humanist, sent a copy of his Epistola ad Serenissimam Elisabetam Angliae Reginam to Queen Elizabeth of England. This work attempted to persuade Elizabeth to return England to Catholicism and initiated a twenty-year, four-book polemical battle. The Epistola was translated into English in 1565 by exiled English Catholics in Louvain who attempted to spread...
The Capítulos of Gabriel Soares de Sousa: Court Politics, Jesuits, and the Exploration of Brazil
by Matthew T. Racine
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 8,480.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 15, 2023
by
Eclectic Esquire Media, LLC.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » World, Nonfiction » History » South American, Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Spain & Portugal, Nonfiction » History » Expeditions & Discoveries
Gabriel Soares de Sousa is rightly famous for his Descriptive Treatise of Brazil, written in 1587, but few scholars have examined his lesser known work, the Capítulos de Gabriel Soares de Sousa Contra os Padres da Companhia de Jesus que Residem no Brasil. This study examines the contents of the Capítulos, and concludes that the traditional view of Soares as an angry and greedy man levying...