CELO INTER MANUS PONTIFICUM TRADIDIT SPIRITUM. THE IDEOLOGY SURROUNDING ROYAL DEATHS IN THE LIGHT OF THE LATIN CASTILIAN-LEONESE CHRONICLES (TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES).
The death of a king in the medieval chronicles is an incomparable historiographical locus from which to examine this phenomenon. Historiographical texts written at the Castilian-Leonese court during the twelfth century and first half of the thirteenth century, in addition to offering first hand info...
| Publicado en: | Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum Vol. 14; pp. 215 - 269 |
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Consolidated Medieval Studies Research Group Space, Power & Culture
2020
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| Sumario: | The death of a king in the medieval chronicles is an incomparable historiographical locus from which to examine this phenomenon. Historiographical texts written at the Castilian-Leonese court during the twelfth century and first half of the thirteenth century, in addition to offering first hand information on royal deaths and the accompanying ceremonies and funeral rites, fully reflect the ideological conceptions and propagandistic constructs surrounding such exceptional events, as will be seen in the first section of this article. In a second section, attention will be paid to the narrative and literary treatment given to the death of a king, as on a formal plane this is also considered to be an event of notable importance. La muerte del rey en las crónicas medievales es un locus historiográfico sin par desde el que estudiar este fenomeno. Los textos historiograficos compuestos en el ambito cortesano castellanoleones durante el siglo XII y la primera mitad del XIII, ademas de ofrecer una information de primera mano sobre las defunciones de la realeza, así como sobre las ceremonias y gestos fúnebres que las acompanan, reflejan muy bien todas las concepciones ideologicas y construcciones propagandísticas que rodeaban este suceso excepcional, como se vera en la primera parte del articulo. En un segundo tiempo se prestara atencion a la articulation narrativa y literaria de la muerte del rey, pues también en el ambito formal supone esta un momento de notable importancia. |
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