IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 313: Images of Henry the Navigator in the Portuguese Literature
Monday 12 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camoniano (CIEC) / Universidade de Coimbra |
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| Organiser: | José Carlos Seabra Pereira, Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camoniano (CIEC), Universidade de Coimbra |
| Moderator/Chair: | Maria Teresa Nascimento, Departamento de Estudos Romanísticos, Universidade da Madeira / Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camonianos, Universidade de Coimbra |
| Paper 313-a | The Heroic Image of the Prince Henry in the Portuguese Medieval Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Military History, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 313-b | The 'portentous, resolute, wise, fair and brave' Infante: Representations of Henry, the Navigator, in the Portuguese Epic Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Mentalities, Rhetoric |
| Paper 313-c | Literary and Civic Reconfigurations of the Henrician Myth (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The literary portrait of Prince Henry the Navigator has suffered a considerable change along the centuries according to literary periods, historical conditions, political interests, and the taste of every epoch. The three papers to be presented in this session intend to show how this figure inspired writers since his own time, starting with the medieval chronicles, going then to the posterior epic tradition and finally to the recreation of his mythical figure by modern and contemporary Portuguese writers. |