Portugal, Spain, and the African Atlantic, 1343-1490: Chivalry and Crusade from John of Gaunt to Henry the Navigator

Abstract

Part One Studies relating to the English diplomatic and military interventions in the Iberian peninsula during the hundred years war (1343-1400): Joao Fernandes Andeiro at the court of John of Lancaster 1371-1381 on the sources of Ferno Lopes Fernao Lopes and the text of the treaty of Santarem Portuguese galleys in the service of Richard II 1385-1389 King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Lancester - John of Gaunt's Spanish court medieval Portuguese students at Oxford University una alianza frustrada - las bodas de Pedro I de Castilla y Juana Plantaganet the war in Spain and Portugal archivists as historians - the case of the Portuguese 15th-century royal chroniclers the Nessus-shirt of Spanish history. Part 2 Studies relating to Prince Henry the Navigator and to the 15th-century maritime expansion of Portugal: Prince Henry the Navigator Castilian documentary sources for the history of the Portuguese expansion in Guinea, in the last years of the reign of Dom Afonso V new light on the text of Eustache de la Fosse's Voiaige a la Guinee 1479-1480 some socio-linguistic problems concerning the 15th-century Portuguese discoveries in the African Atlantic Prince Henry the Navigator - the rise and fall of a culture hero white kings on black kings - Rui de Pina and the problem of black African sovereignty Prince Henry and the necessary end.