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." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

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