Abstract
No início do século XVI, com a abertura da Rota do Cabo à Índia, o comércio luso-alemão intensificou-se consideravelmente. Poderosas casas comerciais de Augsburgo e de Nuremberga, atraídas pelas especiarias e outras riquezas orientais, estabeleceram-se em Lisboa. Os mercadores-banqueiros alemães tinham uma relevância especial para a Coroa de Portugal porque detinham, na Europa, um papel dominante como fornecedores de prata e de cobre, dois metais que eram imprescindíveis para efectuar as trocas comerciais no Espaço Índico. Todavia, existiram inicialmente barreiras alfandegárias, nomeadamente nos Países Baixos, que dificultaram a exportação da prata alemã para Portugal, como mostra a carta de Anton Welser.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, as a consequence of the opening of the Cape Route to India, the Portuguese-German trade reaches increased considerably. Attracted by spices and other oriental riches, several powerful trading houses from Augsburg and Nuremberg settled in Lisbon. The German merchant-bankers had special relevance to the Crown of Portugal because they occupied a dominant role in
Europe as suppliers of silver and copper, two metals that were irreplaceable for trade in the Indian Ocean. However, there were initially customs barriers, namely in the Netherlands, which made it difficult to export German silver to Portugal, as the letter by Anton Welser shows.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, as a consequence of the opening of the Cape Route to India, the Portuguese-German trade reaches increased considerably. Attracted by spices and other oriental riches, several powerful trading houses from Augsburg and Nuremberg settled in Lisbon. The German merchant-bankers had special relevance to the Crown of Portugal because they occupied a dominant role in
Europe as suppliers of silver and copper, two metals that were irreplaceable for trade in the Indian Ocean. However, there were initially customs barriers, namely in the Netherlands, which made it difficult to export German silver to Portugal, as the letter by Anton Welser shows.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 37-52 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Anais de História de Além-Mar |
Volume | 19 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Comércio luso-alemão
- Expansão Portuguesa
- Exportação de prata
- Casas comerciais da Alta Alemanha
- Portuguese-German trade
- Portuguese overseas expansion
- Silver exports
- Upper German trade houses