O modelo de cavaleiro ideal em Portugal: Galaaz e Nuno Álvares Pereira (século XIII-XV)

Abstract

The present work of the course completion aims to analyze the model existence about the ideal christian knight placed on the middle ages portuguese context. To reach that result, it analyze the chilvary novel The Quest of the Holy Grail, wroted in the XIII century and part of the Matter of Britain, the cycle of the tales about King Arthur and his knights. The set of narratives named arturian was appropriated with several segments of the middle ages society over the time. The work in question was used to insert a behavior model that match with the noble and good christian religious values, especially the chilvary.The main character, Galahad, is a behavior model that it was desired by the middle ages society, although his character is actually hard to imitates in the reality, like his eternal virginity. This can be seen in the portuguese context with Nuno Álvares Pereira who, according to A Crônica do Condestável de Portugal, desired to have the same qualities of the Arthurian knight. In this way, we have a historical portuguese figure who was affected by a literary character, both portrayed with several parallels in the documentation, such as theirs virtues, to the point that the portuguese military commander was canonized in 2009. Therefore, the importance of relationship between Literature and History through a historical knight that sought to copy a literary knight, which, as a consequence, reflected his representation in reality.