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 |
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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-a | Travels in the Humanistic Formation of Damião de Gois (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 513-b | Niña era la infanta: The Travel to Saboia (Language: English) 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. |