{"id":3277,"date":"2024-06-18T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2024-08-06T06:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:15:26","slug":"narrative-piety-and-polemic-in-medieval-spain-reflections-from-a-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2024\/06\/18\/narrative-piety-and-polemic-in-medieval-spain-reflections-from-a-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: reflections from a book launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>In this week&#8217;s post, Alun Williams, Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre, shares recollections from the recent launch event for his new monograph.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>I am grateful to those who came to the launch of my recent book, <em>Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of Le\u00f3n-Castile<\/em>, published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Narrative%2C+Piety+and+Polemic+in+Medieval+Spain%3A+Biblical+Rhetoric+in+the+Reconquest+Chronicles+of+Le%C3%B3n-Castile&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Bloomsbury Academic<\/a> on 24th April and celebrated on 1st May. I should particularly like to thank those who came to the launch: friends, former colleagues and students, as well as those who tuned in electronically. My particular thanks go to Gregory Lippiatt <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">(<\/span>who masterminded the event, invited the guests and organised the post-launch dinner<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">)<\/span> and to Teresa Tinsley (who composed the questions and chaired the session<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">)<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My monograph examines six chronicles written in Le\u00f3n-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the ways in which biblical texts and liturgy were mediated through patristic and later exegesis. The twelfth-century texts, all likely to have been completed by 1147, were the so-called&nbsp;<em>Historia Silense<\/em>, the Chronicle of Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo (the&nbsp;<em>Chronicon Regum Legionensium<\/em>) and the&nbsp;<em>Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2024\/06\/Alun-Williams-1-869x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3301\" width=\"323\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2024\/06\/Alun-Williams-1-869x1024.jpg 869w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2024\/06\/Alun-Williams-1-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2024\/06\/Alun-Williams-1-768x905.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2024\/06\/Alun-Williams-1-1304x1536.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2024\/06\/Alun-Williams-1.jpg 1450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The three thirteenth-century texts \u2013 Bishop Lucas de Tuy\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Chronicon Mundi<\/em>, the <em>Historia de rebus Hispaniae&nbsp;<\/em>by Rodrigo Jim\u00e9nez de Rada, and the <em>Chronica Latina Regum Castellae <\/em>\u2013 are roughly contemporary with one another, and were probably complete by 1243. The biblical exegesis that emerged around the time of these texts&#8217; composition<em> <\/em>provided a growing and remarkably coherent body of commentary, understanding and interpretation, meaning that there was an almost uniform ambience for establishing the intellectual milieu in which the chroniclers worked. This was despite the differences in authorial intention and variation in historical emphasis found across the chronicles, as well as in how the authors relied on scripture and classical writing and how such texts were appropriated to suit a particular purpose. The chronicles are considered individually and comparatively, as well as alongside other contemporary accounts such as the Conquest of Lisbon (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/De_expugnatione_Lyxbonensi\"><em>De expugnatione Lyxbonensi<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My interest in this subject and period was sparked by the late <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2018\/01\/17\/in-memory-of-simon-barton-1962-2017\/\">Simon Barton<\/a>, whose premature death in 2017 continues to be lamented in the world of medieval Hispanic studies and in particular by those who knew him as a colleague, friend and mentor. I should like to pay tribute to his influence and persistent encouragement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many have been instrumental in the gestation of this volume \u2013 and they have been acknowledged in the monograph \u2013 but none more so than Simon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s post, Alun Williams, Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre, shares recollections from the recent launch event for his new monograph. 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