Incidências Cristãs num Naufrágio da Carreira da Índia (1552)

Resumo

In the second half of the sixteenth century, Portuguese carracks sailing along the India Route experienced a succession of shipwrecks, generally occurring on the return voyage to Lisbon, with tragic losses of life and property that gave rise to multiple negative effects on sixteenth-century expansion. While similar events also took place in other European countries, the Portuguese case is of particular interest in that it documents a uniform set of maritime catastrophes, indelibly inscribed in the memory of those who lived through these extreme experiences and recounted them to contemporaries and future generations.