Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
Besteiros do Conto (Crossbowmen): Organization, Abuses of Power and Irregularities during the Reign of Dom João I (1385-1433)
Title Information (lang="por")
Title
Besteiros do Conto: Organização, Abusos de Poder e Irregularidades durante o Reinado de Dom João I (1385-1433)
Name: Personal (orcid) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/identifiers/orcid.html", valueURI="http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2443-8149")
Name Part
Ferreira, Leandro Filipe Ribeiro
affiliation
Universidade do Porto
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
author
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
articles
Origin Information
Date Issued
June 2014
Date Issued (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
2014-06
Language (usage="primary")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
por
Physical Description
Extent
pp. 67-86
digitalOrigin
born digital
Abstract (lang="eng")
The aim of this paper is to examine an aspect of social life linked to one of the most important and original forms of military organization in the whole of Portuguese history—the besteiros do conto (crossbowmen). This research centers mainly on the royal documents issued under the rule of Dom João I, which made it possible to arrive at a series of perspectives illustrating the constant abuses perpetrated inside this militia, with attention being drawn most notably to the municipal offenses directed against the privileges enjoyed by the crossbowmen, the situations in which these men themselves committed abuses, and, finally, the attempts made to legally escape appointment to this military force.
Abstract (lang="por")
Através deste artigo pretendemos dar a conhecer um aspeto da sociabilidade de uma das formas de organização militar mais importantes e originais de toda a história portuguesa—os besteiros do conto. Esta investigação incidiu principalmente na documentação régia outorgada por D. João I. Através destes acervos documentais conseguimos elaborar um conjunto de perspetivas relacionadas com os constantes abusos praticados no interior desta milícia, destacando-se os casos de gravames concelhios contra os privilégios dos besteiros do conto, as situações em que eram os próprios atiradores com besta a cometer abusos ou, por fim, as tentativas de fugas litigiosas às nomeações de elementos para este corpo militar.
Part
Part Detail: volume
Part Number
12
Part Caption
vol.
Part Detail: issue
Part Number
1
Part Caption
no.
Extent (unit="page")
Start
67
End
86
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Crossbows
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Military history
Geographic
Portugal
Temporal
15th century
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Social history
Related Item: Host
Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
e-Journal of Portuguese History
Part Number
vol. 12, no. 1
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/810f-qa19