Morocco and the Atlantic islands: conquest and settlement. (1)

15 Março 2016, 14:00 • José Damião Rodrigues

Morocco and the Atlantic islands: conquest and settlement.

Conquest and settlement: the two paths of Portuguese expansion in the 15th century. Northern Africa as a geographical and political extension of the Iberian Peninsula. Frontier and frontier societies in the Iberian medieval Christian kingdoms. Portuguese expansion into North Africa: from John I to John II. Portuguese settlement in the Atlantic islands.

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WINIUS, George D. (ed.), Portugal, The Pathfinder: Journeys from the Medieval toward the Modern World 1300-ca. 1600, Madison, The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1995.