Revival: Conquests and Discoveries of Henry the Navigator: Being the Chronicl...
Taylor & Francis
Revival: Conquests and Discoveries of Henry the Navigator: Being the Chronicles of Azurara (1936)Being the Chronicles of Azurara\nAuthor(s): Virginia De Castro E Almeida, Bernard Miall\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138565258, 978-1138565258\nSynopsis\nA preface from the pen of the late Marshal Lyautey introduces this book, which is an abridged translation of the Chronicales of Gomes Eannes de Azura, recording the siege and capture of Ceuta by the Portuguese, and the discovery of Guinea. Ceuta was captured because of the sons of John I--who had married the daughter of John of Gaunt--were ripe for knighthood , and rebelled against the bourgeois notion of receivingthe acolade during a series of State banquets. Nothing less than the taking of a city from the Infidels would serve their turn; their knighthood must be truly earned and so Portugal became posessed of Ceuta. The second part of the book deals with the d.
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