Os milagres na Idade Média: estudo das Cantigas de Santa Maria do Rei Afonso X, o Sábio

Abstract

The research within the "Teaching of History and Historical Knowledge" research line aims to scrutinize the functions of miracles in medieval Christian society through the analysis of the Cantigas de Santa Maria. It focuses on the second half of the 13th century and the Kingdom of Castile and León, in the Iberian Peninsula. This theme seeks to analyze the relationships between power and religion, aspects that formed a kind of mixture in the Middle Ages. The Cantigas de Santa Maria are compositions attributed to King Alfonso X of León and Castile and constitute an important object of study to understand the political, cultural, and religious relations of the Middle Ages, offering broad possibilities of approach. These compositions possess a richness of text, music, and iconography. The research proposal is to carry out a study of the miracle cantigas, weaving relationships between text, image, and historical context, in order to identify the purposes of the miraculous narratives and their influences on the medieval imaginary. For this purpose, an analysis of primary sources, the Cantigas de Santa Maria themselves, and secondary sources, based on historiography, will be carried out.