Navigations

Malyn Newitt has taught at the universities of Rhodesia and Exeter, and until he retired was the Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s College London. His many books include The Braganzas (Reaktion, 2019).

• Introduction1 Western Europe and the World before the Fifteenth Century2 The Princes of the Avis Dynasty and the Beginning of Portuguese Maritime Exploration3 The Social and Economic History of the Portuguese Atlantic Empire 4 The Portuguese Exploration of the West African Coast in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century: Cão and Dias5 Portuguese Royal Women in the Age of Discovery6 Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral and Renaissance Portugal7 Duarte Pacheco Pereira: Portugal’s Complete Renaissance Man8 Magellan: The Navigator as Epic Hero 9 Understanding the Portuguese Voyages of Discovery: A Long-Term PerspectiveGlossaryThe Avis DynastyReferencesBibliographyAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex

Malyn Newitt writes with the breadth of knowledge that one would expect from a man who was the Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s College . . . Reaktion has issued a series of books on Renaissance lives for which Navigations will make a welcome companion . . . the impact of the voyages undertaken in the hundred years covered by this book fully deserve a detailed, wide-ranging forensic study such as Newitt provides.