Books by "Manuel González Jiménez "
3 books found
El poder cultural de la monarquía medieval
by Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña
2025 · Ediciones Rialp, S.A.
ESTE ANÁLISIS DESVELA CÓMO EL CONOCIMIENTO FUE LA HERRAMIENTA IDEOLÓGICA Y PRÁCTICA MÁS POTENTE DEL TRONO. LA CORTE DESEMPEÑA ASÍ SU ROL COMO INSTITUCIÓN CULTURAL Y LOS INTELECTUALES EL SUYO, COMO AGENTES DE PROPAGANDA QUE LEGITIMARON EL PODER REAL MEDIANTE EL SABER. CARLOMAGNO SERÁ EL ARQUETIPO DEL REX PRAEDICATOR QUE "CREÓ EUROPA CON ESPADAS Y LIBROS". ENRIQUE I BEAUCLERC Y ROGER II DE SICILIA IMPULSARON LA REALEZA ADMINISTRATIVA Y LA BUROCRACIA CENTRALIZADA. FEDERICO II DESARROLLÓ UN MECENAZGO CIENTÍFICO Y ALFONSO X EL SABIO EXIGIÓ LA SABIDURÍA COMO REQUISITO INDISPENSABLE DEL PODER. RODRÍGUEZ DE LA PEÑA OFRECE EN ESTA OCASIÓN UNA OBRA FUNDAMENTAL PARA ENTENDER LA VERDADERA NATURALEZA DE LA AUTORIDAD MEDIEVAL, Y CÓMO EL IDEAL DEL GOBIERNO SAPIENCIAL CRISTIANO Y SU COROLARIO, EL USO RAZONABLE DEL PODER VA ASENTÁNDOSE EN LAS DIVERSAS CORTES. BRINDA ASÍ UNA LECTURA ESENCIAL PARA QUIENES DESEEN COMPRENDER LAS RAÍCES MEDIEVALES DEL PROCESO CULTURAL QUE DIO LUGAR AL ESTADO MODERNO.
The Cultural Power of Medieval Monarchy
by Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña
2023 · Taylor & Francis
This book focuses on why the diffusion of the political theology of royal wisdom created “Solomonic” princes with intellectual interests all around the medieval West and how these learned rulers changed the face of Western Europe through their policies and the cultural power of medieval monarchy. Princely wisdom narratives have been seen simply as a tool of royal propaganda in the Middle Ages but these narratives were much more than propaganda, being rather a coherent ideology which transformed princely courts, shaped mentalities, and influenced key political decisions. This cultural power of medieval monarchy was channelled mainly through princely patronage of learning and the arts, but the rise of administrative monarchy and its bureaucracy are equally related to these policies. This can only be understood through a cultural approach to the history of medieval politics, that is, a history of the relationship between knowledge and power in the Middle Ages, a topic much analyzed regarding the medieval church but sometimes neglected in the princely sphere. This volume is a study that supplies an important comparative study of the reception in princely courts of a key aspect of European medieval civilization: The ideal of Christian sapiential rulership and its corollary, rationality in government. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars interested in understanding the medieval roots of the cultural process which gave rise to the modern state.
The historical data and vast information in the historical sources is arranged in this book using software to make clusters of data and quantification. This serves as illustrative example for future research on how to apply such methods to historical research. The analysis of formation of new elites and powerful families, and the social networks they belonged to, serves to understand in the long run how groups and families in localities of southern Europe have consolidated their power and how political institutions (then and now) have served to the perpetuation of such families in the exercise of power. Disputes and rivalry between factions, elites and groups of power to control land (as main economic source of power) and political institutions have not ceased since the early modern period until today. Southern and Mediterranean Europe localities are a good example in which fierce struggles between elite groups have lasted across space and time.