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radical new views of two icons of European and world history,
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.
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Dois Estudos Polémicos by H. B. Johnson (Paperback - June 1, 2004)
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