The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes

Volume V of the first complete English translation of the chronicles of Fernão Lopes, containing the general bibliography and a comprehensive index containing all people and place names mentioned in the chroniclesUntil 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.

Amélia P. Hutchinson is Senior Lecturer Emerita in Portuguese at the University of Georgia, USA; Director of the Fernão Lopes Translation Project; and Integrated Research Fellow at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Teresa Amado was a Professor at the Universidade Clássica de Lisboa, Portugal. Juliet Perkins is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. Philip Krummrich is Professor in Communications, Media & Languages at Morehead State University, Kentucky, USA.