The Battle of Aljubarrota and Its Literary Consequences for Portugal and Castile." LA CHISPA 1985: Selected Proceedings of the Sixth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Ed. Gilbert Paolini. New Orleans: Tulane University, 1985. 191-202 (original) (raw)

tugal. 2 Since 1337, France and England had entered into a conflict which would in time come to be known as the Hundred Years' War. As with all wars, the primary motive was economic, and in the case of France and England, the prize was the lucrative shipping of wine from southern France, and wool, honey, wax, and iron from Spain, along the trade route known as the «Camino de Flandes,» which extended from the mouth of the Guadalquivir at Sanhicar, north to Lisbon, to La Corufia, to San Sebastian, to Bayonne, to Bordeaux, to Rauen, and finally to the markets of Flanders, and principally Bruges.