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Lus Filipe Silvrio Lima, Ph.D. (2005, University of So Paulo),

teaches Early Modern History at Federal University of So
Paulo. He has published extensively on the Portuguese Empire,
and prophetism, including Imprio dos sonhos: narrativas
profticas, sebastianismo e messianismo brigantino (2010).
Ana Paula Torres Megiani, Ph.D (2001, University of So Paulo),
teaches Iberian History at University of So Paulo. Topics that
she has extensively published on include D. Sebastio of Portugal, and the Habsburg influence in Portugal, Spain and their
Empires between 15801650.

Contributors are: Cristina Pompa, Eduardo Natalino dos Santos,

Francisco Moreno Carvalho, Jacqueline Hermann, Joo Carlos
Gonalves Serafim, Marcos Antonio Lopes Veiga, Marcus De
Martini, Maria Ana T. Valdez, Mark Cooper Emerson, and
Stefania Pastore.

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issn 2213-9141
isbn 978-90-04-31077-3
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Visions, Prophecies and Divinations

The ten chapters range from the analysis of Mesoamerican

and South American indigenous prophetical beliefs to the
intellectual history of the Luso-Brazilian Jesuit Antnio
Vieira and his project of a Fifth Empire, passing through
new approaches to the long-lasting Sebastianist belief
and its political implications.

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Lus Filipe Silvrio Lima and Ana Paula Torres Megiani (Eds.)

Visions, Prophecies and Divinations is an introduction to the

vast and complex phenomena of prophecy and vision in the
Spanish and Portuguese Empires. One of the first collections
of essays on the subject to be published in English, this book
is dedicated to the study of the millenarian and messianic
movements in the early modern Iberian world.

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Visions, Prophecies
and Divinations
Early Modern Messianism and
Millenarianism in Iberian America,
Spain and Portugal
Edited by
Lus Filipe Silvrio Lima
and Ana Paula Torres Megiani

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