{"id":120489,"date":"2023-08-31T17:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=120489"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:33:19","slug":"placing-valentijns-book-in-its-context-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/placing-valentijns-book-in-its-context-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Placing Valentijn\u2019s Book in Its Context-by Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Placing Valentijn\u2019s Book in Its Context-<span style=\"color: #333399;\">by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88737\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Roberts\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/08\/31\/placing-valentijns-book-in-its-context\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Chandra R De Silva<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">We should welcome the efforts of Thiru Arumugam to draw attention to the\u00a0<em>Description of Ceylon<\/em>\u00a0by Fran\u00e7ois Valentijn \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u00a0 (see \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/08\/27\/francois-valentijns-description-of-ceylon\/#more-74805\">https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/08\/27\/francois-valentijns-description-of-ceylon\/#more-74805<\/a>).\u00a0 That work is a valuable source of Sri Lankan history,\u00a0 and as Sinnappah Arasaratnam has pointed out, his work has been used by many subsequent writers. However,\u00a0<strong>Valentijn\u2019s work needs to be used with caution.<\/strong>\u00a0When Arasaratnam writes that \u2018Valentijn\u2019s is one of the most accurate accounts of the pre-European period of Ceylon history up to his time\u2019 (p. 33), he is comparing Valentijn\u2019s work only to those of other Europeans.\u00a0<strong>Despite their defects, Sinhalese and Pali historical works written before Valentijn<\/strong>\u00a0(from which European writers drew information)\u00a0<strong>were certainly more comprehensive on that subject<\/strong>.\u00a0As Arasaratnam himself comments, \u2018it was noted that Valentijn often had only partially published his source and that he was not always the best judge of what was important. . .\u2019 (p. 43).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/08\/31\/placing-valentijns-book-in-its-context\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/330px-Valentijn-Francois-1666-172.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"300\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/08\/31\/placing-valentijns-book-in-its-context\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/THIRU-ARUMUGAM.jpg?resize=179%2C179&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"300\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There are\u00a0<strong>a number of historical events on which Valentijn\u2019s account has been questioned.<\/strong>\u00a0I will mention just two of them. The first is the date of the initial arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka. In 1906, Donald Ferguson suggested that it was likely to have been 1506 and not 1505, as several European chroniclers had suggested. That suggestion of 1506 has been further supported in recent times in works that I have authored (see the reference in\u00a0<em>thuppahi.com<\/em>\u00a0below). Secondly, Valentijn\u2019s assertion (derived from Couto) that the ruler of Kotte agreed to pay tribute in a treaty agreed to on that first visit, is now questioned because we have evidence that the Portuguese failed to obtain cinnamon directly from Sri Lanka in 1508 and did not protest about any lack of payment. It is also suggested by the fact that, when Lopo Soares de Albergaria appeared in Colombo with a large fleet in 1518, he did not ask for vassalage or tribute, but only permission to build a fort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Nevertheless, Thiru Arumugam\u2019s efforts to draw attention to Valentijn\u2019s work should be appreciated<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>REFERENCES<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>Fran\u00e7ois Valentijn\u2019s Description of Ceylon,\u00a0<\/em>S. Arasaratnam, ed., Hakluyt Society, 1978.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">C. R. de Silva, \u201cSri Lanka in the Early Sixteenth Century: Political Conditions,\u00a0<em>University of Peradeniya, History of Sri Lanka,<\/em>\u00a0Vol. II, ed. by K. M. de Silva, Peradeniya: University of Peradeniya, 1995, pp. 11-36.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">C. R. De Silva: \u201cPortugal and Sri Lanka: The Historiography Today,\u201d 20 April 2021,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/04\/20\/portugal-and-sri-lanka-the-historiography-today\/\">https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/04\/20\/portugal-and-sri-lanka-the-historiography-today\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placing Valentijn\u2019s Book in Its Context-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Chandra R De Silva We should welcome the efforts of Thiru Arumugam to draw attention to the\u00a0Description of Ceylon\u00a0by Fran\u00e7ois Valentijn \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u00a0 (see \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/08\/27\/francois-valentijns-description-of-ceylon\/#more-74805).\u00a0 That work is a valuable source of Sri Lankan history,\u00a0 and as Sinnappah Arasaratnam has pointed out, his work has been used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,42710],"tags":[55176,28549],"class_list":{"0":"post-120489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-michael-roberts","9":"tag-francois-valentijns-description-of-ceylon","10":"tag-university-of-peradeniya","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Placing Valentijn\u2019s Book in Its Context-by Michael Roberts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We should welcome the efforts of Thiru Arumugam to draw attention to the\u00a0Description of Ceylon\u00a0by Fran\u00e7ois Valentijn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, 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