OVERVIEW

This training course aims to provide an overview of the House of Avis through a set of traditional sources — contemporary chronicles — reinterpreted and analysed from an updated historiographical perspective, allowing for broad pedagogical use.

The scheduled presentations focus on five major figures of Portuguese chronicle writing from the 15th and 16th centuries, beginning, naturally, with Fernão Lopes, followed by Gomes Eanes de Zurara and Rui de Pina, and concluding with Garcia de Resende and Damião de Góis. Each of these chroniclers will be analysed in terms of the importance of their work for the construction of Portuguese collective memory, whether through the development of a discourse legitimising the House of Avis and the political and social realities it established, through the composition of an overseas epic, or through the incorporation of new Renaissance cultural models.

PROGRAMME

9:30 am – Welcome

9:45 am – Opening Session

10:00 am – João Gouveia Monteiro (CHSC – FLUC), Fernão Lopes and the Construction of a Royal Memory of the Past

11:00 am – Break

11:30 am – João Paulo Oliveira e Costa (NOVA FCSH – CHAM), African Deeds: Gomes Eanes de Zurara

12:30 pm – Lunch

2:30 pm – Filipe Alves Moreira (UAb; IELT – NOVA FCSH), Under the Sign of King João II and King Manuel I: Rui de Pina

3:30 pm – Break

4:30 pm – António Camões Gouveia (CHAM – NOVA FCSH; UCP – CEHR), Two Kings, Two Chroniclers, One and the Same Service: Garcia de Resende and Damião de Góis

5:00 pm – Closing

REGISTRATION

Registration period: 16 February to 5 March

Mandatory registration (subject to the number of available places)

Accredited teachers:

Prior registration is required in the “Other actions” section of the CFRCA platform, via the direct link:
https://cf.ccems.pt/acao/detail/965

Information: cfrca@ccems.pt | +351 244 766 244

Other participants (without accreditation):

se.mbatalha@museusemonumentos.pt (Rita Miguel)

Additional information by phone: +351 244 765 497

Fees*

€15 – General public and teachers not seeking accreditation

€7.50 – Students

*Exempt (subject to registration): IEM researchers, staff of Batalha Monastery, and teachers attending the accredited course.

Organisation

Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM – NOVA FCSH), Centre for Training of the Cooperation and Learning Network (CFRCA), and Batalha Monastery – Museus e Monumentos de Portugal, E.P.

Coordination

Amélia Aguiar Andrade, António Rodrigues, João Luís Fontes, Miguel Metelo de Seixas, Clara Moura Soares.