THE D. DUARTE LIBRARY (1433-1438) AND ITS BOOKS ON LINGUAGEM

D. Duarte (1433-1438) reigned only five years, but he left an important legacy: the expansion of literacy in Portugal. That was one of the strategies of the Avis Dinasty to to legitimize his court and his lineage as those that would make the kingdom grow in economic, political and cultural importance. In this sense, the spread of the translations was one of the instruments used for the books reached a larger number of people, especially the nobles. This article pretends to show the beginning of the vernacular in Medieval Portugal, focusing mainly on the king D. Duarte, one of the supporters of the production and custody of books in the period, demonstrating the importance of these Works for the consolidation of a new nobility who came to power.