Ex libris, July 2012

SILVÉRIO, Carla Alexandra Serapicos de Brito - Representações da realeza na cronística medieval portuguesa : a dinastia de Borgonha. Lisboa : Colibri, 2004. 178, [1] p.

"Considering the images produced on the Burgundian dynasty in the Portuguese chronicles from the forties of the 13th century until early 16th century by educated laymen, mostly related to the court administrative services, mainly after the creation of the office of chief chronicler of the Kingdom, we seek to analyse them as representative of a political and ideological discourse in which the regal memory of the Kingdom serves as an essential device in the legitimisation of the institution of monarchy itself."

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