Gomes Eanes de Zurara

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Gomes Eanes de Zurara was a 15th-century Portuguese chronicler best known for documenting the early Portuguese voyages of exploration and the beginnings of the Atlantic slave trade.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 15th-century writer
Portuguese person
chronicler
historian
writer
authorOf Crónica da Guiné
Crónica de D. Pedro de Meneses
surface form: Crónica de D. Duarte de Meneses

Crónica de D. Pedro de Meneses
centuryOfActivity 15th century
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Portugal
documented early Portuguese trading and raiding voyages south of Cape Bojador
raids and captures of enslaved Africans on the West African coast
employer House of Aviz
Portuguese Crown
ethnicGroup Portuguese
genre chronicle
historiography
influencedBy Portuguese royal court
ideology of crusade and Christian expansion
knownFor documenting early Portuguese voyages of exploration
documenting the beginnings of the Atlantic slave trade
early chronicles of Portuguese expansion in West Africa
languageOfWorkOrName Portuguese
nationality Portuguese
notableWork Crónica da Guiné
Crónica de D. Pedro de Meneses
surface form: Crónica de D. Duarte de Meneses

Crónica de D. Pedro de Meneses
occupation chronicler
historian
writer
placeOfActivity Lisbon
Portugal
portrayed Henry the Navigator
surface form: Prince Henry the Navigator in a favorable light

enslavement of Africans as a Christianizing mission
positionHeld Gomes Eanes de Zurara self-linksurface differs
surface form: cronista-mor (chief chronicler) of Portugal

royal chronicler of Portugal
regionOfOrigin Iberian Peninsula
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
sourceFor early history of the Atlantic slave trade
history of Portuguese expansion in Guinea
workSubject Portuguese exploration of the West African coast
Henry the Navigator
surface form: Prince Henry the Navigator

conquest of Ceuta
early Atlantic slave trade
writingStyle panegyrical
royalist

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Jerónimos Monastery containsTombOf Gomes Eanes de Zurara
Gomes Eanes de Zurara positionHeld Gomes Eanes de Zurara self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: cronista-mor (chief chronicler) of Portugal