Reis e Santos na historiografia dinástica em Leão e Castela (1120-1194)

Abstract

Two of the most importante narrative genres in the Middle Ages, namely hagiography and historiography, maintain a complex relationship of closeness. Some hagiographies have been used as a source by historians and historiography narrates events where saints intervein to a greater or a lesser extent. This paper will look upon on how iberian historiographical texts make use of saints in their narratives. The texts I will be focusing on here are dynastic chronicles written in the twelfth century Iberia: Historia Legionensis, Chronica Pelagiana and Chronica Naierensis. I will try to show that saints are usually evoked in connection to certain kings, queens and/or dynasties and they are used to validate a kingly order in a geography where traditional elements associated to sacred kingship are mostly absent.