> I study Genealogy, and I've read many Portuguese church records
from XVI and XVII centuries. At this time Arhurian characters were
very popular in Portugal, we can find children baptizes as
Lanc,arote (Lancelot), Trista~o (Tristan), Genoveva/Genebra
(Guinevere), Iseu (Isolde), Galas (Galahad), Viviana/Bibiana
(Vivianne), Heitor (Hector - homonym of the Homeric character, but
also present in Round Table legends).
There's a question I've been wondering about for some time that you
might be able to answer. Unfortunately it's completely OT, but I
promise I won't come back to it. It's this:
Do you think the Baroque style of Eurpoe was an invention of the new
world, in particular a mixture of European and native South and
Central American styles (of religious buildings)?
Relevant facts:
It appeared in Europe first in Portugal and Spain.
There was a lot of mission church building going on in the New World.
Some of the architects were native to theland (I recall one story of
a famous crippled church architect of Brasil).
The Baroque style has no obvious predecessors in Europe.
Torsten