Primary Sources: Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Iberia (Spain & Portugual)

narratives from the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world, 1550-1812

or, A genuino relation of the religion, laws, commerce, customs and manners of the country. Written by the Contess of Danois, in a series of letters to a friend at Paris.

with an introduction on Portuguese intercourse with China in the first half of the sixteenth century.

"Mariana Alcoforado, (baptized April 22, 1640 , Beja, Portugal—died July 28, 1723, Beja), Portuguese nun, long believed to have written Lettres portugaise (1669; “Portuguese Letters”), a collection of five love letters, though most modern authorities reject her authorship." See Encyclopaedia Britannica Online for more information.

Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources

Translations and introduction by John Frye ; prólogo by José-María Martínez-Hidalgo.

An Anthology of Sources
Edited and translated