Jó KLANOVICZ, Icles RODRIGUES and Rodrigo Prates de ANDRADE

“Thy Kingdom come”: The Legitimation of the Medieval Court Through Image of the Heavenly Court

“Venha a nós o Vosso reino”: a legitimação da Corte Medieval através da imagem da Corte Celestial

Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Keywords: Church, Court, image, King, Nobility.

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This article studies the medieval court by a perspective of a historiographical readout of the political theology. The idea of an instrument of legitimation of the royal power based in the heavenly court and that mirrored in the earthly court. This conception is very present in the medieval iconography, that will be used in this analysis.