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The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes

Volume 3. The Chronicle of King João I of Portugal, Part I

Shirley Clarke translator Professor Clive Willis translator Professor Iona McCleery translator Dr Francisco Fernandes translator Teresa Amado editor Professor Amélia P Hutchinson editor Juliet Perkins editor Dr Philip Krummrich editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:20th Jun '23

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Volume III of the first complete English translation of the chronicles of Fernão Lopes chronicles the War of Succession (1383-1385), the rise of the House of Avis under João I, and his acclamation by the Cortes in Coimbra. Until now, the chronicles of Fernão Lopes (c.1380-c.1460) have only been available in critical editions or in partial translations. Comparable to the works of Froissart in France or López de Ayala in Spain, the chronicles provide a wealth of detail on late fourteenth-century politics, diplomacy, warfare and economic matters, courtly society, queenship and noble women, as well as more mundane concerns such as food, health and the purchasing power of a fluctuating currency. Lopes had a keen eye for detail and a perspective especially attuned to the common people, and his chronicles provide an invaluable source for the history of Western Europe in the later Middle Ages.

ISBN: 9781855663985

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 790g

432 pages