Beyond and the marginalized: notes on their relationship on the Castilian hagiographies in the XIII Century
Andréia Cristina Lopes Frazão da SILVA and Thalles Braga Rezende Lins da SILVA
Original title: O Além e os marginalizados: apontamentos sobre sua relação nas hagiografias castelhanas do século XIII
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
Keywords: After-life, Devil, Hagiography, Iberian Peninsula, Marginalized.
In this article, we analyze two hagiographies written in the second half of the XIII century, known as Milagros de Nuestra Señora and Liber Mariae. Both were written in the kingdom of Castile, respectively, by Gonzalo de Berceo and Juan Gil de Zamora, clergy members with university education. However, the last was a Franciscan, who maintained relations with royalty, while the first was a priest with strong links with the monastic life. In their writings, the moral and didactical appeal directed to the Christians believers is also remarkable. Thus, through a comparative perspective and considering the historical context of the period, we will examine the representations of the marginalized present in the selected hagiographies, making some parallels between the place of the miracles, their social situation and their postmortem fate. For a better understanding of the question, we are also resorting to the associations that are made on the texts between the marginalized and the characters of the Virgin and the Devil, justly because they exemplify the models of inclusion or exclusion in these narratives.
Messiah seeds: routes of the Iberian royal messianism (XIV-XVI centuries)
Jacqueline HERMANN
Original title: Sementes do Messias: percursos do messianismo régio ibérico (sécs. XIV-XVI)
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Iberian Peninsula, Judaism, Messianism, Sebastianism.
This paper discusses some of the possible routes of royal messianism in the Iberian world between the XIV and XVI Centuries. Through a vast songbook, poems and texts of various kinds it is possible to identify the roots of royal messianism as emerged in Iberia Peninsula in the Middle Ages, and its development in the Modern Period. The best example of royal messianic expectations, Portuguese Sebastianism, fed upon these sources amongst others, and found fertile ground in the dramatic political context which followed the defeat by the Moors in Alcácer Quibir.
The Organization of the Church in the Iberian Peninsula: the Diocese of Coimbra (11th-12th Centuries)
Mário Jorge da Motta BASTOS
Original title: A estruturação da Igreja na Península Ibérica: a Diocese de Coimbra (sécs. XI-XII)
Published in Society and Culture in Portugal
Keywords: Christianism, Church History, Diocese of Coimbra, Iberian Peninsula.
Is there an object of study concerning the medieval civilization more wide, complex, diverse and controversial than that we use to call Church? Without losing the perspective of the institution in its amplitude, we intend to address, in this article, the structuring process of the portucalense Church in the context of the wars of conquest and the progressive autonomation of the geopolitical space of the formation of the kingdom of Portugal, paying attention to the process of restoration of the dioceses liberated from the Islamic domain and to the trajectory of the diocese of Coimbra in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
The introduction of Humanism in the Iberian Peninsula
Julia BUTIÑÁ JIMÉNEZ
Original title: La introducción del Humanismo en la Península Ibérica
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Catalan Literature, Cultural change of fifteenth century, Humanism, Iberian Peninsula.
Summary statement of the reception of Humanist movement in the Iberian Peninsula, which is introduced by the Crown of Aragon. Apart from a few preconceptions about their appearance, characterization, proccess, and current critical situation, the theme focuses on the main production of Humanistic character in Catalan, highlighting Bernat Metge by its prominence and be receiver the very first impact.
“Quel dan uenga sobre altre que sobre nos”: tolerance and pragmatism in the Llibre dels Feyts of James I of Aragon (1213-1276)
Aline Dias da SILVEIRA; Rodrigo Prates de ANDRADE
Original title: “Quel dan uenga sobre altre que sobre nos”: tolerância e pragmatismo no Llibre dels Feyts de Jaime I de Aragão (1213-1276)
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Iberian Peninsula, James I of Aragon, Llibre dels Feyts, Pragmatism, Tolerance.
The purpose of this article is to undestand the representations about the saracens in the autobiography of James I of Aragon (1208-1276) produced in the 1270 decade, the Llibre dels Feyts. Since the contemporary medieval studies interpret these representations from a preponderance of ethinic and religious aspects or a break caused by the first revolt of Valencia (1244), becomes necessary to analyze the relations between christians and muslims from a medieval concept of tolerance in order to encompass them in their historical complexity and increase the interpretations to the developed time by entering James I in the Iberian context of the XIII century. The analysis of the Llibre dels Feyts exposes the operationalization of a pragmatic policy toward the conquered Muslims populations, to tolerate those who recognize the authority and legitimacy of catalan-aragonese monarch. According to an organic and feudal perspective the saracens were incorporated into Catalan and Aragonese territories, without, however, enjoy a equal status.