Del «Diario de a bordo» a la biografía: Las campañas marítimas (1407 y 1410) en la Crónica de Juan II de Alvar García de Santa María y la doble redacción de El Victorial

Authors

  • Rafael Beltrán Llevador

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.1990.v20.1147

Abstract


The medieval biography of Don Pero Niño, count of Buelna, called El Victorial, in its two thirds contains the account of the events that took place during only two years of his life. These years correspond to 1404-1406, a period when Pero Niño as a captain led a number of maritime and war expeditions along the Atlantic European coasts as well as across the Mediterranean. The linguistic and literary resources used in the extremely accurate account of these campaigns in El Victorial are compared with other similar maritime «log-books», only very recently published, in the Crónica de Juan II. This comparison leads us to the conclusion that somebody very close to the count was writing a detailed (

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Published

1990-12-30

How to Cite

Beltrán Llevador, R. (1990). Del «Diario de a bordo» a la biografía: Las campañas marítimas (1407 y 1410) en la Crónica de Juan II de Alvar García de Santa María y la doble redacción de El Victorial. Anuario De Estudios Medievales, 20(1), 171–209. https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.1990.v20.1147

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Miscelaneous Studies