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Aristocratic neo-Gothicism in fourteenth-century Iberia: the case of Count Pedro of Barcelos
Authors: Queimada e Silva Tiago Joao
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication year: 2021
Journal: Journal of medieval Iberian studies
Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL IBERIAN STUDIES
Journal acronym: J MEDIEV IBER STUD
Number of pages: 23
ISSN: 1754-6559
eISSN: 1754-6567
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2021.1957494
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2021.1957494
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/66925375
One of the main arguments used to legitimise Christian military expansion in medieval Iberia was the location of the origin of the Christian Iberian kingdoms in the ancient Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507-711), which established a notion of political continuity between these entities. The legitimacy of the Visigothic Kingdom was reflected in the polities that emerged out of the process of Christian expansion, enabling military activity against Muslims to be portrayed as the restoration of Gothic Spain. In the present study, I refer to this view of the past, especially in thirteenth-century Castilian royal historiography, as the neo-Gothic myth. The neo-Gothic myth was an asset held by royalty in the cultural enactment of these social struggles. In this article, I inquire into the reaction of the seignorial aristocracy to the royalty's neo-Gothic claims, using the historiographical work by Count Pedro of Barcelos (c. 1285-1354). More specifically, I analyse how Count Pedro adapted the neo-Gothic myth to an aristocratic perspective.
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