ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

用于使中世纪伊比利亚基督教军事扩张合法化的主要论点之一是基督教伊比利亚王国起源于古代西哥特托莱多王国（507-711），这确立了这些实体之间政治连续性的概念。西哥特王国的合法性反映在基督教扩张过程中出现的政体中，使得针对穆斯林的军事活动被描述为哥特式西班牙的恢复。在目前的研究中，我将这种对过去的看法，尤其是在 13 世纪卡斯蒂利亚皇家史学中，称为新哥特式神话。在这些社会斗争的文化制定过程中，新哥特式神话是皇室持有的资产。在本文中，我使用巴塞洛斯的佩德罗伯爵（约 1285-1354 年）的史学著作，调查领主贵族对皇室新哥特式主张的反应。更具体地说，我分析了佩德罗伯爵如何将新哥特神话改编成贵族视角。