POLITICAL RITUALS OF THE SPEAKING: BLESSING AND CURSE IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND LAW OF THE CASTILIAN NOBILITY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY (PART I).

The curse, along with its opposite, the blessing, was not a fictional element, a legend more or less original in Castilian political history. Law and historiography made this topic a key element in his discourses to end up legitimizing one or the other in the struggles for the power of the kingdom i...

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Published in:	Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum Vol. 16; pp. 205 - 240
Main Author:	AsIss-GONZALEZ, FEDERICO J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Consolidated Medieval Studies Research Group Space, Power & Culture 2022
Subjects:	Political oratory Blessing & cursing Nobility (Social class) Historiography Fourteenth century Rites & ceremonies
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