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Charles Ralph Boxer is one of the foremost historians of early Portuguese history. I will admit from the start that I only read the Asia-related chapters of this work (although it also covers Portuguese colonies in Africa and the Americas), so my comments are limited to those chapters. For anyone seeking information on the role of the church in the Portuguese colonies of Asia, this is the first place to turn, especially Chapters III and X ("Converts and Clergy in Monsoon Asia 1500-1600" and "The Crown Patronage and the Catholic Missions"), which discusses "the indissoluble union of the Cross and the Crown". As Boxer details it, Portuguese rulers were granted Padroado real (royal patronage of the Church overseas) privileges, which gave them the right to be the patron of the Roman Catholic church overseas in part because the Papacy was preoccupied with the "rising tide of Protestantism" on the one hand, and the "Turkish threat in the Mediterranean" on the other. In short, "God was omnipresent as well as Mammon". No one covers this topic better than Boxer, who details the arrival of the first Portuguese missionaries, the arrival of the Jesuits in Goa in 1542 and their subsequent settl

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Author

C. R. Boxer, C.R. Boxer, Boxer, Charles Ralph,

Publisher

Hutchinson, 1977.

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780091310714

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, European History, Humanities

Rating

4.29 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14