The History of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
Prince Henry's Voyages, Portuguese Expansion, and the West African Coast in a Medieval ChronicleBy Gomes Eannes de Zurara
Length22h 28m
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Gomes Eannes de Zurara's The History of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea is a foundational fifteenth-century Portuguese chronicle of Atlantic exploration, military expansion, commerce, and Christian mission. Centered on the voyages sponsored by Infante Dom Henrique (Henry the Navigator), it recounts encounters along the West African coast while presenting navigation, diplomacy, raiding, and enslavement within a providential narrative of Portuguese destiny. Its formal blend of annalistic record, heroic exemplum, and courtly praise places the work at the threshold between medieval Christian historiography and the emerging literature of European expansion. The chronicle is therefore both a valuable source for early Atlantic history and a revealing literary construction of empire. Zurara, a royal chronicler and keeper of the Torre do Tombo, wrote in the political and ideological environment of the Portuguese court under Afonso V. His commission continued the national historiographical project associated with Fernão Lopes, but redirected it toward overseas enterprise and the celebration of Henry's leadership. Shaped by court patronage, crusading ideals, and contemporary assumptions about religion, race, and legitimate conquest, the book illuminates as much about Portuguese self-fashioning as about the events it records. Its silences and moral rationalizations are consequently as significant as its descriptions. This book is recommended to readers of medieval and early modern history, Atlantic studies, African history, and colonial literature. It rewards close reading as both documentary testimony and ideological artifact, inviting reflection on how exploration was narrated, justified, and remembered. Scholars will value its evidence and political texture, while general readers will find in it a vivid, indispensable introduction to the origins of Portuguese imperial power and the human consequences of its expansion.
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GenreHistory
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Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XXII.
2Volume 1
27CHAPTER XXIII.
3EDITORS' PREFACE.
28CHAPTER XXIV.
4THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
29CHAPTER XXV.
5CHAPTER I.
30CHAPTER XXVI.
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6CHAPTER II.
31CHAPTER XXVII.
7CHAPTER III.
32CHAPTER XXVIII.
8CHAPTER IV.
33CHAPTER XXIX.
9CHAPTER V.
34CHAPTER XXX.
10CHAPTER VI.
35CHAPTER XXXI.
11CHAPTER VII.
36CHAPTER XXXII.
12CHAPTER VIII.
37CHAPTER XXXIII.
13CHAPTER IX.
38CHAPTER XXXIV.
14CHAPTER X.
39CHAPTER XXXV.
15CHAPTER XI.
40CHAPTER XXXVI.
16CHAPTER XII.
41CHAPTER XXXVII.
17CHAPTER XIII.
42CHAPTER XXXVIII.
18CHAPTER XIV.
43CHAPTER XXXIX.
19CHAPTER XV.
44CHAPTER XL.
20CHAPTER XVI.
45Volume 2
21CHAPTER XVII.
46PREFATORY NOTE.
22CHAPTER XVIII.
47INTRODUCTION. (pt. 1)
23CHAPTER XIX.
48INTRODUCTION. (pt. 2)
24CHAPTER XX.
49CHAPTER XLI. How they took the ten Moors.
25CHAPTER XXI.
50CHAPTER XLII. How Alvaro Vasquez took the thirty-five Moors.
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