The Crown, the Court and the Casa Da Índia : Political Centralization in Portugal 1479-1521.

Intro -- The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia: Political Centralization in Portugal 1479-1521 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Names and Currency -- Introduction -- 1: Spin Doctors of the Crown: The Chroniclers and Their Contexts -- Fernao Lopes, (Crónista Mor 1434-54) -- Gomes Eanes de Zurara, (Crónista Mor 1454-74) -- Dr. Vasco Fernandes de Lucena, (Crónista Mor 1474-97) -- Rui de Pina, (Crónista Mor 1497-1522) -- Duarte Galvão -- João de Barros and Damião de Góis -- 2: From Royal Household to Royal Court: Patronage as a Political Strategy -- Political Utility of Large Households -- Limitation of Household Size -- 'New Monarch' or King of the Roads? -- Reorganization and Expansion of the Royal Household -- 3: Inquiry and Reform -- Return of the Exiles -- Expulsion of Jews and Muslims -- The Manueline Reforms -- Bureaucratization and Plural Appointments -- Re-routing the Court: Palaces and Itineraries -- 4: Alms for the King -- Controlling the Episcopacy -- Hospitals and Confraternities -- The Order of Christ and the Conquest of Morocco (1495-1510) -- 5 The Crown and Its Castles -- Castles and Councillors -- Changes to Warfare at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century -- North Africa -- Death of Ferdinand of Aragon -- Estado da Índia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia, Susannah Humble Ferreira re-evaluates the place of the overseas expansion in the policies of the Portuguese Crown in the so-called 'Age of Discoveries'.

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