Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

List of Illustrations

pp xi-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xviii

Acknowledgements

pp xix-xxiii

Sponsors

pp xxiv-xxiv

Translators’ Note

pp xxv-xxviii

Abbreviations

pp xxix-xxix

Introduction

pp 1-2

1 - Fernão Lopes: The Father of Portuguese Historiography

pp 3-10

2 - Fernão Lopes and the Writing of a Late Medieval Portuguese History

pp 11-53

3 - The Chronicle of King Pedro of Portugal: Historical Context

pp 54-66

The Chronicle of King Pedro of Portugal

pp 67-68

Prologue

pp 69-70

Chapter 1 - Concerning the reign of King Pedro, the eighth king of Portugal, and about the qualities that he possessed

pp 71-73

Chapter 2 - How the King of Castile sent for the body of Queen Maria, his mother, and concerning the letter he sent to the King of Portugal, his uncle

pp 73-74

Chapter 3 - Concerning the letters that the Pope and the King of Aragon sent to the King of Portugal upon the death of the king his father

pp 75-76

Chapter 4 - How King Pedro dealt with judicial decisions in his house

pp 77-79

Chapter 5 - Concerning some of the things King Pedro ordered for the good of justice and for the benefit of his people

pp 79-81

Chapter 6 - How the king had two of his criados beheaded for robbing and killing a Jew

pp 81-83

Chapter 7 - How the king had wanted to subject a bishop to torture for sleeping with a married woman

pp 83-84

Chapter 8 - How the king had one of his squires castrated for sleeping with a married woman

pp 85-86

Chapter 9 - How the king ordered the wife of Afonso André to be burnt, and concerning other acts of justice he ordered to be carried out

pp 86-88

Chapter 10 - How the king had ordered the admiral to be put to death, and concerning the letter which the Doge and the Council of Commoners of Genoa wrote pleading for him

pp 88-89

Chapter 11 - Concerning the coins that King Pedro had minted and the value of gold and silver at that time

pp 89-91

Chapter 12 - How kings went about accumulating wealth and adding to it

pp 92-94

Chapter 13 - How King Pedro of Castile began to amass a vast fortune

pp 94-95

Chapter 14 - How King Pedro of Portugal made João Afonso Telo a count and dubbed him a knight, and the great feast that he gave for him

pp 95-96

Chapter 15 - The pacts that the King of Castile and King Pedro of Portugal signed and how the King of Portugal promised to support him against Aragon

pp 97-99