the Prior: Builder of Kingdom Portugal

In the fourteenth century, Portugal is a structure in peril. D. Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, the powerful Prior of Crato, was no king, but he became the architect of national resistance. Through the Order of the Knights Hospitaller and an iron will, he raised impregnable castles and a lineage of legitimised children who would change the course of history - among them, D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, the future Holy Constable.Graham A. Wexford uses his "narrative geometry" to carve a human and strategic portrait of this master builder of the nation. A vibrant epic about the steel of conviction and the granite of the archives, where the honour of a dynasty is built stone by stone.A researcher of power dynamics and empire building, Graham A. Wexford applies his "narrative geometry" in The Prior. The author of The Viceroy unites the rigour of historical granite with the mortar of imagination, rescuing the foundations of Portugal from the shadows.