Portuguese Malacca

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Fernao Mendes Pinto 4: The Aceh Sultanate and Further Suffering at Sea

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Aceh in the 18th century - (Wikimedia)

Fernao Mendes Pinto recovers from shipwreck and captivity, neither his first nor his last, and returns to the story of the Aceh Sultanate.

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Sources:

  • The Travels of Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz. University of Chicago Press, 1989.

  • Aceh Sultanate: State, Society, Religion and Trade (2 vols.): The Dutch Sources, 1636-1661, edited by Takeshi Ito. Brill, 2015.

  • Göksoy, İsmail Hakkı. "Ottoman-Aceh relations as documented in Turkish sources," in Mapping the Acehnese Past, edited by R. Michael Feener, Patrick Daly, and Anthony Reed. Brill, 2011.

  • Pinto, Paulo Jorge De Sousa. The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619: Power, Trade and Diplomacy. NUS Press, 2012.

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Fernao Mendes Pinto 3: Melaka and the Embarrassed Envoy

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16-century Malacca as drawn by Gaspar Correia

Our 16th-century traveller, among so many other things, arrives in Malacca (Melaka). From there he is sent out as envoy, leading to misadventure, near death, and criticism of the Portuguese Empire.

If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here.

Sources:

  • The Travels of Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz. University of Chicago Press, 1989.

  • The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India, translated by Walter de Gray Birch. Hakluyt, 1875.

  • Boxer, C.R. The Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415-1825. Carcanet, 1991.

  • Diffie, Bailey Wallys. Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580. University of Minnesota Press, 1977.

  • Newitt, Malyn. A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400–1668. Routledge, 2004.

  • Paine, Lincoln. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World. Knopf Doubleday, 2015.