Ideología política y crónicas monásticas: la concepción cluniacense de la realeza en la España del siglo XII

Abstract

This article is related to a context of exhaustive research on the concept of Castillan Kingship (XI-XIII centuries) that pays special attention to the political of royal Wisdom, an aspect neglected until now. The analysis of Twelfth Century's Cluniac chronicles brings forward two interesting conclusions on the matter of the political thinking in the kingdoms of Castile and Leon. First, we observe the importance of the role played by the chronicles in the difussion of medieval political ideology, something yet proved by French scholars in another countries. In second place, it is outlined the existence of a counter-model of Kingship, composed by Cluniac monks and relying on the principles of Hierocracy and Feudalism. A counter-model that was hegemonic in Castile all along the Twelfth Century, being an alternative so much to the earlier Isidorian one (Eleventh Century) as to the national statecraft characteristic of the Monarchy in the Thirteenth Century. Related to the shape of this Cluniac countermodel, the offspring of the epic genre in Castile played a significant role.