Publiciting the war in urban context, Portugal – 1319-1324

Resumo

We mean to analyse a narrative source from the Portuguese medieval chronicles in order to understand the ways in which an image of the series of episodes making up the civil war of 1319-1324 was built. The memory then produced told of a conflict that was mostly played out in urban spaces, and which opposed the King, D. Dinis (b.1261, r.1279-1325), and his son and legitimate heir, the prince D. Afonso. The reasons given as having originated the confrontation, and the involvement of a kingdom divided between parties, point to something more than a private conflict, between related parties.