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RESUMEN: La historia militar y la imagen imperial de. Agradezco a las compañeras y compañeros del Fórum Postdoc del CHAM sus múltiples indicaciones -especialmente a Edval de Souza Barros, que hizo una lectura profunda y numerosas sugerencias de mejora del texto-y a James Amelang, que también leyó y comentó atentamente la primera versión del mismo.

ABSTRACT:Early modern European capitals competed to demonstrate their imperial status, and contemporary urban praise often drew comparisons between them, situating these cities within a shifting hierarchy. Authors frequently combined actual perceptions of cities with metaphors of a New Rome and other classical motifs. This article explores how various writers asserted Lisbon's greatness and civic identity within this shared comparative European discourse. More particularly, it shows how they defended its changing political status as a capital while also developing a strong commercial discourse that centred on the city as an emporium. Views and descriptions of Lisbon and its port paralleled contemporary descriptions of London in particular, as both cities were increasingly defined as paradigms of imperial commerce.

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