Centre for the Study of the Portuguese Discoveries

Linacre College, Oxford

Dr T.F. Earle
Chairman
Dr S.R. Parkinson
Treasurer

Last modified 26th September 1997

Index

Electronic Texts
Colloquia
History
Vasco Discussion group
Forthcoming events
WWW Sites

Electronic Texts

João de Barros, Décadas da Ásia Available on disk. Soon to be integrated into the CDROM series of the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses
Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Cronica da Guiné
Garcia da Orta, Coloquios dos Simples

Colloquia

The First Colloquium was held in Oxford in 1992. The proceedings were published as Studies in the Portuguese Discoveries I, ed. T.F. Earle and Stephen Parkinson, Warminster, Aris and Phillips, 1995

History

The Centre for the Study of the Portuguese Discoveries was established in 1988, with funds from the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses.

Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses

Director: Professor Antonio Hespanha Address: Casa dos Bicos, Rua dos Bacalhoeiros, 1100 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Tel: (+351 ) 1 888 48 27 Fax: (+351) 1 887 33 80 Founded in 1988 to promote research and publication on the Portuguese Voyages of Discovery, leading up to the 1998 celebrations of the Quincentenary of the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India (1498), and Expo 98. Publications: Oceanos

Vasco Discussion group

A discussion list for exchanging ideas and information about the Portuguese Discoveries
VASCO is part of the Mailbase listserver system.
To subscribe to VASCO, send a message of the form
mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
consisting of the single line

join history-vasco firstname(s) lastname
.
You will then be sent full details of how to use the list, and how to access other lists run by the mailbase listserver.
For further information contact
Stephen Parkinson
Vasco List Manager
email vasco@ermine.ox.ac.uk

Forthcoming events

Under development

WWW Sites

Portuguese Literature
Portuguese History
Discoveries History