Volume IV of the first complete English translation of the chronicles of Fernćo Lopes chronicles the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385), which secured the throne for Joćo I, his marriage to Philippa of Lancaster, and his reign up to 1411.
Until now, the chronicles of Fernćo 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.
Introduction
The Chronicle of King Joćo I of Portugal, Part 2, Tiago Viśla de Faria
THE CHRONICLE OF KING JOĆO I OF PORTUGAL, PART 2
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Amélia P. Hutchinson is Senior Lecturer Emerita in Portuguese at the University of Georgia, USA; Director of the Fernćo Lopes Translation Project; and Integrated Research Fellow at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Teresa Amado was a Professor at the Universidade Clįssica de Lisboa, Portugal. Juliet Perkins is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. Philip Krummrich is Professor in Communications, Media & Languages at Morehead State University, Kentucky, USA.
