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Political rituals of the speaking

Blessing and curse in Historiography and the Law of the Castilian Nobility of the fourteenth century (part II)

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ID21825639
AuthorsFederico J Asiss-González (0000-0003-1427-0872, corresponding author)
Year2024
Issue18
Pages271-308
Publication date2024-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueImago temporis medium Aevum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1888-3931 • E-ISSN: 2340-7778
PublisherUniversitat de Lleida (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.21001/itma.2024.18.12
OpenAlexW4392703432
LanguageEN
Citations received2

The curse along with its opposite, the blessing, were not fictional elements, legends more or less original in the Castilian political history. Law and historiography made these topics key elements in his discourses to legitimize a group or another in the struggles for the power of the kingdom in a long period that comprised from the end of the thirteenth century to the beginning of the fifteenth century. In our first article, we already conceptually analyzed these acts of speaking and their discursive manifestations in the first half of the fourteenth century. In this second part, we will focus especially on how these discourses of intradynastic delegitimization were consolidated as strong political arguments that the king could pronounce in the public space par excellence, the Cortes, or in the international sphere. Thus, we will use historiographic texts, political and juridical understood in the stage that goes from the end of the reign of Alfonso XI to that of Henry III in order to understand how these discourses re-signify fictionally this supernatural ritual of the speaking to build a functional historical truth to his present interests and to enable the establishment of the Trastámara dynasty denying the legitimacy of the paternal blood

Archaeology · Art · Blessing · Curse · Historiography · Literature · Nobility · Political science · Politics · Theology · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · Classics · History · Law · Medieval Iberian Studies · Philosophy

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Citations per year2
Citation span2025 - 2026 (2)
Highly citedNo

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