Pilgrims Of Eternity | Medieval Iberian Chronicles (How The Dynasty That Launched Portugal Into The World Was Born)

"In my first encounter with the book [Peregrinos da Eternidade], and induced by the title, I thought it was a work of fiction. However, as I began reading the first page... I couldn't stop. Indeed, it is not a historical novel, but rather a set of interpretations drawn from Portuguese and Spanish chronicles. Yet, it has the great virtue of being as captivating to read as a novel. Or rather, as engaging as a very well-written novel! It is a work of mature, critical reflection, maintaining a balanced distance from a range of subjects that have often been approached without the necessary questioning and doubts posed by the sources, and above all, without the humanism that seems fundamental to me. This work has all of that. Its literary form does not detract from its scientific value; on the contrary, it frames it and reaches out to the public, stimulating them — it's a pleasure to read."

CARLA VARELA FERNANDES

(Historian and University Professor, 2003)

INDEX

Introduction

PART ONE - THE SIAMESE OF IBERIA

1st Chronicle - Approaching a Royal Portrait

2nd Chronicle - Bewitched Loves

3rd Chronicle - The War of the Women

4th Chronicle - The Word of Allah

5th Chronicle - Allah in Hispania

6th Chronicle - Last Stronghold in Granada

7th Chronicle - Alfonso XI Against Islam

8th Chronicle - Ladies in Their Places

9th Chronicle - Salado - The Vespers

10th Chronicle - Salado - The Massacre

PART TWO - PASSIONS OF PERDITION

11th Chronicle - Inês de Castro

12th Chronicle - Ancient Hatreds of Afonso IV

13th Chronicle - The Ghosts of Albuquerque

14th Chronicle - The End of El Onceno

15th Chronicle - The Hour of the Humiliated

16th Chronicle - The Revenge of Maria of Portugal

17th Chronicle - A Taste of Power and Blood

18th Chronicle - Maria de Padilla

19th Chronicle - A Troubled Favorite

PART THREE - THE DAYS OF JUDGMENT

20th Chronicle - Castilian Rebels in Portugal

21st Chronicle - Inês in the Storm

22nd Chronicle - All for Blanche of Bourbon

23rd Chronicle - The King and the Phantom Captain

24th Chronicle - A Fallen Heron by the Banks of the Mondego

25th Chronicle - Pedro and the Dead Queen

26th Chronicle - The Falcon's Dive

27th Chronicle - King-Beast

28th Chronicle - Struggle for a Crown

29th Chronicle - From Montiel to Alcobaça

PART FOUR - THE NEW GENERATION

30th Chronicle - A Beautiful and Gentle Heir

31st Chronicle - Portuguese Adventure in Castile

32nd Chronicle - Fernando in the Web of Leonor Teles

33rd Chronicle - Leonor and the Magic Throne

34th Chronicle - The English Partner

35th Chronicle - New Portuguese-Castilian War

36th Chronicle - The Crime of João de Castro

PART FIVE - TIMES OF REVOLUTION

37th Chronicle - Foreigners in Iberia

38th Chronicle - War and Comedy

39th Chronicle - Leonor's Bad Reputation

40th Chronicle - The Scare of João de Avis

41st Chronicle - Changing Partners

42nd Chronicle - Hand in Hand with Castile

43rd Chronicle - Throne Without a King

44th Chronicle - Death Sentence

45th Chronicle - Once Upon a Time, the Count Andeiro

46th Chronicle - João de Avis among Bourgeoisie and Baldheads

PART SIX - BIRTH OF A DYNASTY

47th Chronicle - The Visit of Juan I of Castile

48th Chronicle - Abdication and Rebellion

49th Chronicle - Leonor to the End

50th Chronicle - A Kingdom on the Razor's Edge

51st Chronicle - Nun'Álvares and the Barking Beast

52nd Chronicle - The Siege of Lisbon

53rd Chronicle - João de Avis, King

54th Chronicle - Nuno at the Gates of Eternity

55th Chronicle - Aljubarrota

EPILOGUE - DESTINIES AND DESCENDANTS

Notes to the Text

Dynasties of Portugal

The Iberian Peninsula in the 14th Century (Map)

Bibliography