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Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World - The Orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World - The Orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the
three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis
became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding
services to the Crown. Membership in these military orders was
highly prized as status symbols and because of the orders' "purity
of blood" statutes, these knighthoods were more highly esteemed
than mere patents of nobility, especially since such knighthoods
automatically ennobled. Francis A. Dutra has written widely on the
Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis - a topic
generally neglected by students of early modern Portugal. This
volume brings together a selection of his pioneering essays. Based
extensively on archival research, they reflect his special interest
in social mobility and use of the knighthoods for patronage, while
particular sections focus on the role of the orders in the
Portuguese maritime expansion and in India and Brazil, and on the
medical profession. The collection includes English translations of
four studies that originally appeared in Portuguese, as well as a
detailed index, in itself a useful research tool.
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