Chronicles of Fernão Lopes

Volume IV of the first complete English translation of the chronicles of Fernão Lopes chronicles the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) which secured the throne for João I his marriage to Philippa of Lancaster and his reign up to 1411. <p/>Until now the chronicles of Fernão Lopes (c.1380-c.1460) have only been available in critical editions or in partial translations. Comparable to the works of Froissart in France or López de Ayala in Spain the chronicles provide a wealth of detail on late fourteenth-century politics diplomacy warfare and economic matters courtly society queenship and noble women as well as more mundane concerns such as food health and the purchasing power of a fluctuating currency. Lopes had a keen eye for detail and a perspective especially attuned to the common people and his chronicles provide an invaluable source for the history of Western Europe in the later Middle Ages.