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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... never have passed beyond the draft stage had it not been for his skill in information technology . Dr Bruce Taylor , from California , kindly devoted much time and patience to checking and improving the Bibliography and to pursuing ...
... never have passed beyond the draft stage had it not been for his skill in information technology . Dr Bruce Taylor , from California , kindly devoted much time and patience to checking and improving the Bibliography and to pursuing ...
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... never failed to find time to investigate and promptly to produce answers to questions or requests for information with which I have troubled him . Others who have always generously responded to my claims on their expertise are Professor ...
... never failed to find time to investigate and promptly to produce answers to questions or requests for information with which I have troubled him . Others who have always generously responded to my claims on their expertise are Professor ...
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... never supposed that he should present Henry objectively , warts and all . He believed that , as chronicler - royal , what was expected of him when he wrote his Chronicle of the Capture of Ceuta ( c . 1450 ; revised after 1460 ) and his ...
... never supposed that he should present Henry objectively , warts and all . He believed that , as chronicler - royal , what was expected of him when he wrote his Chronicle of the Capture of Ceuta ( c . 1450 ; revised after 1460 ) and his ...
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... never questioned in his own country or outside it at the time . There was one exception . At the time of the high tide of Henry's sixteenth - century fame in Portugal , the Spanish friar Bartolomé de Las Casas denounced him root and ...
... never questioned in his own country or outside it at the time . There was one exception . At the time of the high tide of Henry's sixteenth - century fame in Portugal , the Spanish friar Bartolomé de Las Casas denounced him root and ...
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... never- theless concluded that there was enough to demonstrate that he was ' a hero , both of science and action'.17 When it came to describing the Prince's personality , Beazley did not hesitate to offer his readers a more or less ...
... never- theless concluded that there was enough to demonstrate that he was ' a hero , both of science and action'.17 When it came to describing the Prince's personality , Beazley did not hesitate to offer his readers a more or less ...
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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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
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.
Referências a este livro
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 |