Beyond The Pale

By Rui Batista

The world was not empty. It was declared so.

1502. A Portuguese fleet arrives at Calicut with instructions to secure the Eastern trade routes. An unnamed officer is assigned to record what follows: the negotiations, the demonstrations of force, the documents that transform acts into policy.

Calicut has courts. It has customs. It has governance.

But the fleet has a papal grant, and the grant concerns territories that lack Christian dominion. The officer watches his captain interpret the document's limits. He writes the ultimatums. He records the outcomes. He learns that authority does not require truth; only language precise enough to make power appear lawful.

The third volume in the Years of Consequence series, Beyond the Pale examines the mechanism by which certainty is created, boundaries are declared, and violence is made to seem inevitable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQGL1TGW
• ISBN13: 9798249962777
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"