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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 513: Between the Sea and the Kingdom: Travel as Construction of Power in the Era of Avis - 15th and 16th Centuries

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Organiser:Sínval Carlos de Melo Gonçalves, Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Moderator/Chair:Vânia Leite Fróes, Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro
Paper 513-aTravels in the Humanistic Formation of Damião de Gois
(Language: English)
Márcio Paes Selles, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro
Index terms: Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 513-bNiña era la infanta: The Travel to Saboia
(Language: English)
Lenora Pinto Mendes, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro
Index terms: Mentalities, Music, Social History
Abstract

Sea travel is in the center of the consolidation of monarchic power in Portugal in the Avis dynasty era. The sea is conceived as part of the Portuguese territory and eligible for travel and conversion of gentiles. The image of the Kingdom is constructed around this 'divine mission' through which is woven a political discourse that is produced in the Royal Palace and carried, in the form of one of its main branches of thought, to the travels. The propaganda of the Kingdom and its glories is done through chronicles, theatre, and music, which are herein analysed.