João Vicente Melo
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (Peer-Reviewed)
2017: Melo, João Vicente. Review of Molesky, Mark. This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, Or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015). Luso-Brazilian Review. 54:2, E13-E14. ISSN: 0024-7413, e-ISSN: 1548-9957
2017: Melo, João Vicente. Review of Flores, Jorge. The Mughal Padshah: A Jesuit Treatise on Emperor Jahangir’s Court and Household (Leiden: Brill, 2015). Journal of Jesuit Studies, 4: 3 (2017), Brill. ISSN: 2214-1324 E-ISSN: 2214-1332. DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00403007-14
2016: Melo, João Vicente. “Akbar” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. Volume 11 eds. David Thomas and John Chatsworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 34-37. ISBN: 978-90-04-32683-5. E-ISBN: 978-90-04-33558-5. DOI: 10.1163/9789004335585
2016: Melo, João Vicente. “Farmans about Portuguese-Mughal relations, Akbar’s letter to Philip II (Philip I of Portugal)” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. Volume 11 eds. David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 37-52. ISBN: 978-90-04-32683-5. E - ISBN : 978-90-04-33558-5. DOI: 10.1163/9789004335585
2016: Melo, João Vicente. “In Search of a Shared Language: The Goan diplomatic protocol”, Journal of Early Modern History, 20: 4 (2016), pp. 390-407. Brill. ISSN: 1385-3783. E-ISSN: 1570-0658. DOI: 10.1163/15700658-12342504
Open-access publications
2018: TIDE: Keywords essays ed. Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, Haig Smith, and Lauren Working, available at: http://www.tideproject.uk/keywords-home/
"Seeking Prestige and Survival - Gift-exchange practices between the Portuguese Estado da Índia and Asian rulers", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 56, 2013. pp. 672-695.
"Ouro & Preces: a procissão joanina de Corpus Christi", Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 89, Issue 2, 2012, pp. 193-206."Respect and Superiority: the ceremonial rules of Goan diplomacy and the survival of the Estado da Índia, 1707-1750",Portuguese Studies, Vol. 28, Issue 2, September. 2012, pp. 143-158.
"'The Most revered and feared king': the construction of the public image of the viceroys of the Portuguese State of India, c. 1700-1750" in Halikowski-Smith, Stefan (ed.), Looking into the Indian Ocean: World. Essays in Honour of Prof. K.N. Chaudhuri(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), pp. 232-54.