Portugal: A Companion History

José Hermano Saraiva, Ian Robertson, Ursula Fons, Ian Robertson, Ursula Fons

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781857542110
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847779779
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television series that went with it became a chart-topper. His latest book, produced especially for Carcanet's Aspects of Portugal series, is a history of his country, brief, acute and illuminating, written with scholarly insight and with non-specialist foreign readers specifically in mind. To this main text Ian Robertson, author of the well-known Blue Guide to Portugal, has added a historical gazeteer, brief biographies, chronological tables, maps and other elements which make this an essential Companion, the sort of book that a reader in need of accurate, brief and lucid reference will find useful, and every visitor to Portugal will find rewarding. The book is generously illustrated.

Chronologies

RULERS OF PORTUGAL

Some of the more oft-quoted nicknames are given; dates in brackets indicate the year of marriages.

House of Burgundy (or Afonsin Dynasty)
1128/39–85			Afonso (Henriques) I m. Mafalda of Maurienne and Savoy (1146)
1185–1211			Sancho I m. Dulce of Aragon (1174)
1211–23			Afonso II m. Urraca (1208), daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor Plantagenet
1223–48			Sancho II m. Mécia López de Haro
1248–79			Afonso III m. 1) Matilde, Countess of Boulogne (1235) m. 2) Beatriz de Guillén (1253), daughter of Alfonso X of Castile
1279–1325			Dinis, ‘O Lavrador’ (the husbandman) m. Isabel of Aragon (1282)
1325–57			Afonso IV m. Beatriz of Castile (1309), daughter of Sancho IV of Castile
1357–67			Pedro I (the Justiciero) m. 1) Blanca of Castile (1328) m. 2) Constanza of Castile (1340) m. 3) Inês de Castro (1354?)
1367–83			Fernando m. Leonor Teles (1372)
1383–5			(Interregnum)

...

House of Avis
1385–1433			João I m. Philippa of Lancaster (1387)
1433–8			Duarte (Edward) m. Leonor of Aragón (1428)
1438–81			Afonso V (the African) m. Isabel of Portugal (1441)
1481–95

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• I The Ancient Roots
• II The Founding of Portugal
• III The Century of the Discoveries
• IV The Armillary Sphere
• V Faith and Defeat
• VI Portugal Restored
• VII The Reforms of the Eighteenth Century
• VIII The End of the Old Regime
• IX Monarchical Constitutionalism
• X The Three Republics
• MAPS
• Chronologies
• Historical gazetteer
• Brief Biographies
• Selective bibliography
• Glossary
• Index
• Copyright