S. 4. 3 – Politics, Science, Religion: New Historical Insights On the Making of Early Modern Thalassocracies

Chair: Fabiano Bracht (FLUP-CITCEM) 

• Nuno Vila-Santa (Universidade de Lisboa) – Spying on the Global Sea: French maritime and cosmographical espionage in Portugal (1557-1561)
• José Maria Moreno Madrid (Universidade de Lisboa) – A life-or-death matter: When a rutter becomes an ‘instruction’
• David Salomoni (Universidade de Lisboa) – Brothers of the World: Notes for a Comparative Reassessment of Missionary Orders in Early Modern European Oceanic Expansion