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Vasco Da Gama’S Voyages To India: Messianism, Mercantilism, And Sacred Exploits, S. M. Ghazanfar Dec 2018

Vasco Da Gama’S Voyages To India: Messianism, Mercantilism, And Sacred Exploits, S. M. Ghazanfar

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

The Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), was the first European to sail from Portugal to India. Accolades for this achievement have long obscured the messianic motivation for the 1498 voyage, “to invade, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and other enemies of Christ; to reduce them to perpetual slavery; to convert them to Christianity; [and] to acquire great wealth by force of arms from the Infidels,” as sanctified by various Papal Bulls, together called “the Doctrine of Discovery” (Dum Diversas, 1452; Romanus Pontifex, 1455; Inter Caetera, 1493). The other key motive in …


Gold & Blue, Fall 2018, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas Oct 2018

Gold & Blue, Fall 2018, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Fall 2018 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.


Welcome To The Neighborhood, Adèle!, Eric F. Spina Aug 2018

Welcome To The Neighborhood, Adèle!, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

Although the Adèle Center still needed some finishing touches when I toured it a few weeks ago, it’s not going to take long for the new kid on the block to gain respect as it welcomes its first student residents this week.