António Oliveira, also known as Anton Stark is a PhD student at the University of Coimbra, where he is studying late medieval Portuguese arms and armour. He’s a working on a project titled ‘The Harness in Portugal: 1370-1495’ and recently presented a part of his work on jousting in Lisbon at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. In this episode, we discuss his findings on the Rua Nova in Lisbon and its implications for 15th century jousting in Portugal - including an exciting theory regarding the birth of the tilt or barrier for jousting in this unique street.
Instagram: @sirantonstark
Additional Show Notes:
Rua Nova in Lisbon
- Possible anonymous Flemish painting of the Rua Nova prior to the 1755 earthquake/fire was discovered in 2009 in Kelmscott Manor in England.
- Further Reading: The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon, Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and K.J.P. Lowe, eds. London: Paul Holberton, 2015
- Related Blog Post: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/46280
- Further Reading on the Earthquake of 1755
- Shrady, Nicholas. The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755. (ISBN 9781440637438).
Gutierre Diaz de Gamez’s Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pero Nino (mid 15th c)
- 4 surviving manuscripts
- English translation available by Joan Evans, Cambridge Ontario 2000
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