About Three Clerics and towards a “history from the middle” for Medieval Castile: Miguel de San Nicolás of Toledo, Gíl of Cuenca, and Lanfranc di Palacio of Palencia
This article investigates the careers of three lesser-known clerics from medieval Castile during the reign of Alfonso VIII of Castile (r. 1158–1214). In doing so, it reveals that, while the sources from Castilian archives are too poor to support a more traditional “history from below,” they can supp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Journal of religious history
Year: 2022, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 220-242 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Castile
/ Historiography
/ Clergy
/ Archival materials
/ History 1158-1214
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| RelBib Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KBH Iberian Peninsula RB Church office; congregation |
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| Summary: | This article investigates the careers of three lesser-known clerics from medieval Castile during the reign of Alfonso VIII of Castile (r. 1158–1214). In doing so, it reveals that, while the sources from Castilian archives are too poor to support a more traditional “history from below,” they can support a more modest via media between that approach and paleotradtionalist homo magnus historiography. Drawing on recent work by scholars in queenship and corporate monarchies in the medieval period, the article suggests that using sources concerning clerics of sub-episcopal station, Castilian historians might fill in much of the more local detail that is often missing — and therefore goes undiscussed — from broader surveys of religious and social histories. As case studies, the three clerics studied here show that multicultural, economic, legal, and cultural historical data are recoverable from the sources that mention them and that this data helps fill in many of the lacunae in the medieval history of the Iberian Peninsula by using religious histories as an entry point. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9809 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12831 |