'The Friendship of Kings was in the Ambassadors': Portuguese Diplomatic Embassies in Asia and Africa during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Looks back at the realm of Portuguese diplomatic embassies in Asia and Africa during the 16th and 17th centuries. Ambiguities of a diplomacy balanced between the language of trade and religious proselytizing; Tasks of diplomacy in the Age of Encounters; Protocol in formal Portuguese embassies.