Dois Estudos Polémicos [Paperback]

Harold B. Johnson (Author)

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Publication Date: June 1, 2004

Um par de estudos sobre a vida sexual de dois ícones da história portuguesa: para ler, pensar, e discutir.

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About the Author

Harold Johnson nasceu em Hastings, Nebraska, U.S.A. em 1931. Depois de receber o bacharelato e mestrado da University of Cambridge (UK), ele doutorou-se com uma tese sobre a Galícia medieval na University of Chicago em 1963. Depois expandiu os seus conhecimentos da história Luso-Brasileira como um Post-Doctoral Fellow na Universidade de Yale durante os anos 1964-1968 com pesquisas nos arquivos de Brasil e Portugal. Foi bolsista da Social Science Research Council (duas vezes) e da Fundação Ford. Em 1969 entrou na Faculdade de História da University of Virginia onde ensinou cursos da história da Américan Latina e Ibéria. Dirigiu o Latin American Studies Center de 1970 a 1974. Em 1981 mudou para a posição de Scholar-in-Residence para se dedicar exclusivamente a pesquisa histórica. E autor, além de artigos e recenções em muitas revistas, de: From Reconquest to Empire: The Iberian Background to Latin American History (Knopf, 1971); "The Settlement of Brazil, 1500-1580" na The Cambridge History of Latin America, I (London, 1984), 249-286; (com Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva) O Império Luso-Brasileiro, 1500-1620 (vol. VI da Nova História da Expansão Portuguesa) (Lisbon, 1992); Camponeses e Colonizadores (Lisboa: Ed. Estampa, 2002).

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Fenestra Books (June 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587363453
• ISBN-13: 978-1587363450
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars radical new views of two icons of European and world history, August 19, 2004

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This review is from: Dois Estudos Polémicos (Paperback)

Johnson has broken through all the taboos surrounding Henry the Navigator as well as King Sebastian and given us their real selves in a sexual sense. Both were gay although this is more difficult to prove with Henry than Sebastian. Henry was certainly, as Johnson points out, a phallic narcissist, something very fitting for the pioneer who started the whole process of European imperialism. In the case of Sebastian, all the confusing smoke screens created by Portuguese historians to avoid seeing his homosexuality, as well as his sexual abuse at the hands of his tutor and confessor, lift when Johnson uses his knowledge to get to the nitty gritty of things. Sebastianºs story will never be the same, and neither will Henry "the Navigator"'s.