The late medieval Castilian nobility and the king: building and redistribution of power
Cecilia DEVIA
Original title: La nobleza castellana bajomedieval y el rey: construcción y redistribución del poder
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Chronicles, King, Middle Ages, Nobility, Violence.
It discusses the relationships between the nobility and the king in the Chronicle of King Don Pedro by Pero Lopez de Ayala, in light of the model reproductive strategies of the dynastic State developed by Pierre Bourdieu. Emphasis is placed on the rational use of violence that govern the conduct of both the king and the nobles, especially in construction and redistribution of power.
The royal voice into the Vita Wilfrithi of Eddius Stephanus
Alberto ASLA
Original title: La voz real en la Vita Wilfrithi de Eddius Stephanus
Published in Senses and sensibilities in classical and medieval worlds
Keywords: Eddius Stephanus, King, Vita Whilfrithi, Voice.
The history of Anglo-Saxon England is a fruitful field of research for Spanish-speaking historiography, even so, and despite having some works linked to philology and theology, for history is almost nil. In this sense, our work, although small, aims to account for the wealth of this period through an absolutely different and specific approach: history of the senses. And from there, in order to find a medieval soundscape is that our goal will be to trace and analyze the royal “voice” from the dispute between the two traditions of Christianity existing during the seventh century and later its subsequent establishment as a religio licitas.
«Caput et membras». The image of the Castilian king in the rhetoric and iconography
Osvaldo Víctor PEREYRA
Original title: «Caput et membras». La imagen del rey castellano en la retórica y la iconografía
Published in Idea and image of royal power of the monarchies in Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Body, Head, King, Member, image.
The construction of the archetypal image of the Castilian king implies the combination of a set of symbols of royal power during the Middle Ages are being incorporated place as their own manifestations of political-social gravity is reaching the monarchy front of the set of groups and classes privileged kingdom. This paper attempts to highlight some of these elements that involve the symbolic realization of the king's image both in the discursive construction and iconography that accompanies it.
“Thy Kingdom come”: The Legitimation of the Medieval Court Through Image of the Heavenly Court
Jó KLANOVICZ, Icles RODRIGUES and Rodrigo Prates de ANDRADE
Original title: “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: Church, Court, King, Nobility, image.
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.
