Prince Henry "the Navigator": A LifeYale University Press, 01/01/2000 - 448 páginas Henry the Navigator is a legendary, almost mythical, figure in late medieval history. Together with Columbus he was considered one of the progenitors of 'modernity', a man who dared to challenge the scientific assumptions of his age and by so doing was responsible for liberating Europeans from the geographical constraints which had bound them since the collapse of the Roman Empire. His image as imperialist and, above all, maritime, mathematical, and navigational pioneer has been slow to die. Yet there has been no English life of this 'hero of both science and of action' since Beazley's of 1895. This book, therefore, represents the first re-evaluation of his life in over a century. Peter Russell has made use of much recently published documentary evidence to provide an eloquent, sophisticated and highly readable account of Henry's life. While full attention is given to all aspects of his voyages of discovery in the African Atlantic, including their economic and cultural consequences and the difficult questions of international law and papal jurisdiction, Russell also examines in detail the other spheres of activity which contributed to his fame, or sometimes brought it into question |
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... crown , often in the form of letters patent the collector of the crown's taxes in a specified locality variable measure of weight nominally the equiva- lent of 32 lbs ( English ) a small square - rigged ship capable of being rowed in ...
... crown , often in the form of letters patent the collector of the crown's taxes in a specified locality variable measure of weight nominally the equiva- lent of 32 lbs ( English ) a small square - rigged ship capable of being rowed in ...
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... crown on all imports by sea - Span . dobla the generic name for gold coins minted in Muslim North Africa or in Granada and , in imitation of the gold coinage of those countries , in Castile . No gold coins were minted in Portugal in the ...
... crown on all imports by sea - Span . dobla the generic name for gold coins minted in Muslim North Africa or in Granada and , in imitation of the gold coinage of those countries , in Castile . No gold coins were minted in Portugal in the ...
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... crown of any booty taken by force of arms coin of silver and copper first launched in 1415 and then reckoned to be worth 35 libras lands belonging to and administered by the crown directive ; in a Henrican context ' sailing orders ' any ...
... crown of any booty taken by force of arms coin of silver and copper first launched in 1415 and then reckoned to be worth 35 libras lands belonging to and administered by the crown directive ; in a Henrican context ' sailing orders ' any ...
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... crown to the Prince for his lifetime was a personal one . As a consequence most everyday documents relating to Guinea did not pass through the royal chancery except on the rare occasions when prerogatives that 9 Introduction.
... crown to the Prince for his lifetime was a personal one . As a consequence most everyday documents relating to Guinea did not pass through the royal chancery except on the rare occasions when prerogatives that 9 Introduction.
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... crown were involved . They were dealt with by Henry's personal chancery , the contents of which have been almost entirely lost . There are some grounds for believing that , after Henry's death in 1460 , routine records relating to the ...
... crown were involved . They were dealt with by Henry's personal chancery , the contents of which have been almost entirely lost . There are some grounds for believing that , after Henry's death in 1460 , routine records relating to the ...
Índice
Matters of Nativity | 13 |
The Force of Destiny Ceuta | 29 |
The Crusader as Administrator Kings Lieutenant for the Affairs of Ceuta and Governor of the Order of Christ | 59 |
Lord of the Isles | 81 |
Beyond the Cape of No Return | 109 |
A Just War? Prince Henrys Ambitions in the Sultanate of Morocco | 135 |
Debacle at Tangier | 167 |
Discovery Resumed The Portuguese Sahara | 195 |
IV | 291 |
V | 316 |
VI | 327 |
VII | 345 |
VIII | 365 |
IX | 370 |
Notes | 372 |
X | 373 |
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Página vi - What mankind has lost and gained by the genius and designs of this prince, it would be long to compare, and very difficult to estimate. Much knowledge has been acquired, and much cruelty been committed; the belief of religion has been very little propagated, and its laws have been outrageously and enormously violated.
Página xiii - ... were the effects of the patience, wisdom, intellectual labor, and example of one man, backed by the pluck of a race of sailors, who, when we consider the means at their disposal, have been unsurpassed as adventurers in any country or in any age.
Página v - Henry was the true foundation of the Greatnesse, not of Portugall alone, but of the whole Christian World, in Marine Affaires, and especially of these Heroike endevours of the English (whose flesh and bloud hee was) which this ensuing Historic shall pre* See Dam.
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Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire Josiah Blackmore Pré-visualização limitada - 2002 |
Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration Felipe Fernández-Armesto Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |