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CHAVES (Maria Adelaide Godinho Arala). FORMAS de Pensamento em Portugal no Séc. XV. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1970. - CHAVES (Maria Adelaide Godinho Arala) FORMAS de Pensamento em Portugal no Séc. XV . Esboço de análise a partir de representações de paisagem nas fontes literárias. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1970. 326, [2] pp.; 220 mm. Paperbound. A study in the history of mentalities examining modes of thought in fifteenth-century Portugal, using an original methodology: the author draws on landscape representations in literary sources to reconstruct the perceptual and mental categories of the period. The Portuguese medievalist Maria Adelaide Godinho Arala Chaves analyses chronicles and other fifteenth-century literary texts to identify the characteristic worldview of late medieval Portugal.