In some parts of Portugal, this meant risking dispossession, torture and even death. But in other areas, and especially where converted Jews had a major role in trade, local authorities and the ...

It included unpublished information on Portuguese trade routes and the ongoing discovery ... Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on ...

It was brought further afield to the Mediterranean around the 15th Century, most likely by Italian or Portuguese ... trade in crafted leather bags. Queen Elizabeth I received a wristwatch in the ...