From Red to Black: Evidence for a Change in Mentality in Tenth-century Hispanic Medieval Sources
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2020.50.1.08Keywords:
history of mentalities, red, black, white, León, Isaiah 1, 18, Ramiro IIIAbstract
This paper considers some evidence for a change in mentality concerning the perception and symbolic values of the basic colours in certain Christian sources from medieval Spain. A number of interesting differences in the transmission of a specific Biblical quotation –Is 1:18– observed both in the Visigothic Antiphonary of the León Cathedral and in a charter of King Ramiro III point to this change in mentality, underlining the concept of black, and no longer red, as the new colour considered as essentially opposite to white. This change is further examined in the light of some examples from Western Christian literature.
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