Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Princess of the Seas, Queen of Empire: Configuring the City and Port of Renaissance Lisbon | Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and Kate Lowe
2. Foreign Descriptions of the Global City: Renaissance Lisbon from the Outside | Kate Lowe
3. The Global Population of Renaissance Lisbon: Diversity and its Entanglements | Kate Lowe
4. Chinese Commodities on the India Route in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries | Rui Manuel Loureiro
5. Saved from the Sea: The Shipwreck of the Bom Jesus (1533) and its Material Culture | Bruno Werz
6. “Aquela grã Rua Nova”: Images of the Rua Nova in Sixteenth-century Portuguese Literature | T.F. Earle
7. Reconstructing the Rua Nova: The Life of a Global Street in Renaissance Lisbon | Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
8. Global Interiors on the Rua Nova in Renaissance Lisbon | Hugo Miguel Crespo
9. Olisipo, emporium nobilissimum: Global Consumption in Renaissance Lisbon | Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
10. Made in Africa: West African Luxury Goods for Lisbon’s Markets | Kate Lowe
11. On the Turkey in Rua Nova dos Mercadores | Shepard Krech III
12. Rock Crystal Carving in Portuguese Asia: An Archaeometric Analysis | Hugo Miguel Crespo
13. The ‘Three Brothers’: Sixteenth-century Lacquered Indo-Muslim Shields or Commodities for Display? | Ulrike Körber
14. Some Notes on the Production of Christian Sculpted Ivories in the Estado da Índia | Carla Alferes Pinto
15. The Rua Nova Paintings, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Victorian Art Dealer George Love: Questions of Provenance | Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
1. Jokes mentioning the Rua Nova
2. A Pilgrim’s Description of Lisbon
3. Description of Global Trade going through Lisbon
4. City Ordinances
5. 1565 Tax Roll of Lisbon Residents
6. Rua Nova Inventories
7. Goa Cargo List of 1630
8. Book of Accounts from the Casa da Guiné
Map of Portuguese Trading Empire in the Sixteenth Century
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Photographic credits