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Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile

Autor Alun Williams
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 apr 2024
This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the evolution of history writing in León-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It focuses on six Hispano-Latin chronicles, two of which make unusually overt and emphatic use of biblical texts. Of particular importance is the part played by the influence of exegesis that became integral to scriptural and liturgical influence, both in and beyond monastic institutions.Alun Williams provides close analysis of the text and comparisons with biblical typology to demonstrate how these historians from the north of Iberia were variously dependent on a growing corpus of patristic and early medieval interpretation to understand and define their world and their sense of place.Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain sees Williams examine this material as part of a comparative exploration of language and religious allusion, showing how the authors used these biblical-liturgical elements to convey historical context, purpose and interpretation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788314619
ISBN-10: 1788314611
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Reflects on historical context, purpose and interpretations that can be found in these medieval writings

Notă biografică

Alun Williams is Honorary Research Fellow at University of Exeter, UK.

Cuprins

List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Biblical Tests in the Latin West: Integration and Diversity2. The Historia Silense and Pelayo's Chronicle3. Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris: A Biblical Epic4. The Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris and the Literature of Conquest5. Three Thirteenth Century Chroniclers6. The Thirteenth Century and Biblical ConquestPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Alun Williams has an exceptional command of the Biblical texts and the medieval Christian exegesis that shaped and permeated Iberian chroniclers' accounts, allowing us a new prism for understanding the construction of Reconquista ideology.