Discover this online and free access research tool for the work of Fernão Lopes. This presentation takes us through the history, virtual dimensions and practical functions of this website, at a time when it is integrating the set of digital research tools already produced and made available by the IEM.

This ambitious project focused on Fernão Lopes began in 2009. Coordinated by Amélia Hutchinson and, until her passing away, by Professor Teresa Amado, the project culminates in 2021 with the publication of the full English language version of the Chronicles. The project results from the extensive collaboration of a diverse team, composed of experts in literary studies, translators, linguists, historians and computer scientists.

As a complement to this edition of the Chronicles, a website was designed by Amélia Hutchinson and developed at the University of Georgia to help readers browse the numerous references (onomastic, topographical and others) in the works of Fernão Lopes. Thus, this authentic database is an essential tool for the contextualised reading and interpretation of the author.

About to celebrate a decade of existence, the website now has a new address at the IEM / NOVA-FCSH coupled with a renewed vocation: to be an educational entrance to the cultural universe surrounding one of the greatest authors in Portuguese Literature – and, simultaneously, one of the great European “historians” of his time …