Philippa of Lancaster and the Court Culture of Medieval Portugal

Tiago Viúla de Faria is FCT Research Fellow at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais in NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal.

• Introduction.- Locating Court Culture: An Intersected Geography.- Part I — Iberia and the West in Philippa’s Age.- 1. England, Europe and Anglo-Portuguese Relations c. 1360–c. 1415.- 2. The Canterbury Tales and Women Exiles at John of Gaunt’s Castilian Court.- Part II — Philippa of Lancaster.- 3. Historicising Philippa of Lancaster.- 4. 'Smooth' Queenship: Philippa as Lancastrian Aristocrat, Queen of Portugal, and Mother of Princes (1387–1415).- Part III — Culture of the Court.- 5. Astrology and Astronomy in the Court Culture of the Avis Dynasty.- 6. Jews in the Court of João I and Philippa of Lancaster.- 7. The Portuguese Royal Chapel in the Early Fifteenth Century.- 8. Translating Authority: ‘Chaste Readers’ and Queenly Patrons of the Confessio Amantis and O Livro do Amante.- 9. An ‘English’ Tomb for an English Queen: Memory, Presence and ‘Performance’ in the Funerary Commemoration of Philippa of Lancaster.