Portuguese Studies Review, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Summer 2022) -- Round Anniversary Issue (Thirty Years)
New Series (SHIPPED 15/06/2023; full DIGITAL ACCESS is available to all LSA members [LSA Member Login Area, which is part of the LSA membership package])

EDITORIAL

Nemo ~ Μήτις (or Ούτις)
(Homer, Odyssey, 9: 405-414, "Cave of Polyphemus") (i.e. Wisdom, Skill, Craft, NoOne, 'Depersoned', 'Cancelled', 'Silent' [Homer, Iliad, 23: 313-325], etc.) ("... It is with mētis that a helmsman ... / 317 / steers his swift ship ... / 318 / ...", " ... It is with mētis rather than force [biē] that a woodcutter is better ... " [Iliad, 23: 313-325] (our Bronze Age warrior is back, by request)

ARTICLES

Wilson A. Paiva (PSR Board)
“Saudade: A Quintessential Portuguese Feeling"

Ivana Elbl (LSA& PSR Boards)
"Friendship, Disasters, and Social Capital: The Silva Meneses, 1415-1481"

Annemarie Jordan Gschwend (Centro de Humanidades (CHAM), Lisbon, Portugal and Zurich, Switzerland)
“The Queen’s Gambit ~ Infanta Maria of Portugal the Duchess of Viseu, the Court Painter Anthonis Mor, and Fake News at the Lisbon Court" (with appended unpublished documents relating to Philip II's expected marriage to the Infanta, and his sudden subsequent marriage to Mary Tudor, Queen of England)

Ricardo Fernando Gomes Pinto e Chaves (APH [Associação de Professores de História])
“ ' When the Desire (and the Obligation) Refuses to Work'. The Sexualisation of the Prince’s Power in the Context of Consolidation of the Dynastic States of Modernity”

Martin Malcolm Elbl (LSA & PSR Boards)
“Through ‘Deplorable’ Eyes: Barlow in Lisbon (1661) ~ Elite Theatrics, King Afonso VI of Portugal, Bullfights, and a Common English Seaman”

Martin Malcolm Elbl (LSA & PSR Boards)
“Tunnels Below (Dar Zero ~ Tangier): Urban Myths, a German 'Baron' from Maryland, and a Very Real Portuguese Citadel" (with appended unpublished documents, plans, and maps)

Jesse Pyles (Independent Scholar)
“Counterpoints to Anglocentric Narratives about the Portuguese during the Peninsular War"

João Carlos Vitorino Pereira (Université Lumière – Lyon 2 )
“D’errance en dérive : l’obsession du perfectionnement humain dans Redenção, utopie naturaliste et hygiéniste d’Amílcar de Sousa" (added, with apprectiation; the article balances out the collection and adds valuable dimensions [topical ref. Amílcar Augusto Queirós de Sousa, 1876–1940])

Fabio Lanza (LSA Board) and Ilídio Fernando and Luis Gustavo Patrocino
“As Organizações da Sociedade Civil-Religiosa (OSC-R) em Moçambique"

DATA RELEASE

Ivana Elbl (LSA & PSR Boards)
“Sand and Dreams: Daily Slave Purchases at the Portuguese Coastal Outpost of Arguim (Mauritania) (1519-1520) ~ Full Raw Serialized Data plus Archival Analysis Annotations”

This raw data release (previously unpublished data) is appearing in the PSR by inter-editor agreement, as an indispensable companion to Ivana Elbl, “The Slave Trade Logistics in Arguim, 1492-1519,” in Manuel F. Fernández Chaves & Rafael M. Pérez García, eds., El desarrollo del tráfico esclavista en la modernidad. Siglos XV-XIX (Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, expected 2023). "The Slave Trade Logistics" chapter features analysis / conclusions plus condensed evidence, but there was no space at all for an integral annotated raw dataset as a permanent record.

It is now PSR policy to make raw data available wherever possible, whenever an author agreees, in parallel with graphed / modelled / homogenized / processed data. We deem that the use of summary data that cannot be readily cross-checked against underlying raw data does disservice to research. Releasing raw fundamental 'data-of-record' is always 'in the interest of the public' and of the community of scholars. Once an analysis / discussion has been published (this shields the priority interests of the author), the underlying raw data should be made available, in due course. We espouse this stance in order to contribute to all similar efforts that seek to mitigate the risks that scholarship might be distorted through non-obvious 'politically correct' adjustments to essential historical 'data-of-record'. Impartial verification MUST ALWAYS be protected. Typical (non)arguments like "but, no one is really interested in the raw data" very obviouosly will not wash.