Lisbon, new Rome and emporium: Comparing an early modern imperial capital, 1550-1750
Author
Martínez Bermejo, SaúlEntity
UAM. Departamento de Historia ModernaPublisher
Cambridge University PressDate
2016-09-09Citation
10.1017/S0963926816000481
Urban History 44.4 (2017): 604-621
ISSN
0963-9268 (print); 1469-8706 (online)DOI
10.1017/S0963926816000481Editor's Version
http://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926816000481Subjects
Modern European capitals; Lisbon; Emporium; Imperial commerce; HistoriaRights
© 2016 Cambridge University Press.Abstract
Early modern European capitals competed to demonstrate their imperial status, and contemporary urban praise often drew comparisons between them, situating these cities within a shifting hierarchy. Authors frequently combined actual perceptions of cities with metaphors of a New Rome and other classical motifs. This article explores how various writers asserted Lisbon's greatness and civic identity within this shared comparative European discourse. More particularly, it shows how they defended its changing political status as a capital while also developing a strong commercial discourse that centred on the city as an emporium. Views and descriptions of Lisbon and its port paralleled contemporary descriptions of London in particular, as both cities were increasingly defined as paradigms of imperial commerce.
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