Tabla de Contenidos: “…Harrison) / Luis Felipe de Alencastro -- The Portuguese in Africa / John Thornton -- Patterns of settlement in the Portuguese Empire John Russell-Wood -- Political configurations and local powers / Francisco Bethencourt -- Ecclesiastical structures and religious action / Isabel dos Guimarães Sá -- Encounters, negotiations, and interactions / Anthony Disney -- Portuguese imperial and colonial culture / Diogo Ramada Curto -- Language and literature in the Portuguese Empire / Luís de Sousa Rebelo -- The expansion of the arts : transfers, contaminations, innovations / Luís Moura Sobral -- Science and technology in Portuguese navigation : an essay on the idea of experience in the Sixteenth Century (translated by Neil Safier) / Francisco C. …”