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Religion, nationalism and national identity in medieval Spain and Portugal

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Peter Linehan
Peter Linehan*
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A no ser por el Clero, y en especial por el Episcopado español’, declared Vicente de Lafuente a century ago, ‘España sería un pais sin historia, pues la historia sin escribir no es historia’. Lafuente himself was a layman—though it did not always show—with conventional views regarding the ‘democratic tyranny’ of his age which a spell as rector of Madrid university during the student and other troubles of the mid-1870s served only to reinforce. He found it odd that he rather than an ecclesiastic should have written the first ecclesiastical history of Spain. A committee of churchmen had been formed in Rome for the purpose in 1747, but it is too soon to report on the outcome of that venture. Lafuente’s history, though more than a century old, is still the only full-scale work of its kind by a Spaniard—’and since that time there is not a single chronicle that I can discover; though (like John of Salisbury in his day) I have found in church archives notes of memorable events which could be of help to any future writers who may appear’. In presenting some of these notes here, in the context of the theme of this conference, I find myself altogether less daunted by the notion of nationalism, which a self–respecting medievalist is expected fastidiously to eschew, than by the problem of how to evaluate the testimony of so many witnesses, clerical and lay, medieval and modern.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 18: Religion and National Identity , 1982 , pp. 161 - 199
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20 Thus Gaztambide, [J.] Goni, [Historia de la Bula de la Cruzada en España] (Vitoria 1958) p 39 Google Scholar, whose chapter 2 is entitled ‘La Reconquista, Guerra Santa’: also highly thought of by García Villoslada (pp xl-xli). That the ‘finger of providence’ guided Spain’s destiny during these centuries is asserted by García Villada, p 108.

21 ‘¿Cuando nace España? A mi entender, en el momento en que la Iglesia católica la recibe en sus brazos oficialmente y en cierto modo la bautiza en mayo del 589’: García Villoslada, p xlii. Cf García Villada, p 104.

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30 ‘C’est la force des armes qui orienta l’histoire’: Dufourcq, ‘Berbérie et Ibérie médiévales: un problème de rupture’, RH 240 (1968) p 323—although in the struggles of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, he concedes, ‘la religion devint un élément caractéristique, essentiel’ (p 319). Compare Menéndez Pelayo: ‘No elaboraron nuestro unidad el hierro de la conquista ni la sabiduria de los legisladores; la hicieron los dos apóstoles y los siete varones apostólicos.’

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34 Bitter regret at the fate of ‘infelix Spania . . . condam deliciosa et nunc misera effecta’ is expressed in the so-called Cronica Mozárabe de 734 (ed Mommsen, T., MCH AA, 11, p 353 Google Scholar), but the ‘vehemently nationalist’ author, though almost certainly a churchman, was evidently a Mozarab writing under Moorish domination. See Alonso, [B.] Sánchez, [Historia de la historiografia española,] 2 ed (Madrid 1947) 1, pp 101-4Google Scholar; Díaz, [M. C.] Díaz y, La historigrafía [hispana desde la invasión árabe hasta el año 1000’,] in De Isidoro al siglo XI (Barcelona 1976) pp 207-9Google Scholar. The charter evidence of the Christian kingdom is analysed by Barrau-Dihigo, L., ‘Étude sur les actes des rois asturiens (718-910)’, Revue hispanique 46 (Paris 1919) pp 1–192 Google Scholar.

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39 Vázquez de Parga, ‘La biblia’ p 277. Gómez-Moreno (p 586) infers lay authorship-—’por sabio que pareciese’—of Crónica Rotense from the barbarity of its Latin. Thus too Sánchez-Albornoz, ‘La redacción original de la Crónica de Alfonso III’, Investigaciones, p 25.

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44 Barbero and Vigil regard the chronicle’s Oppa at Covadonga as ‘el prototipo del obispo que ha pactado con los musulmanes’, note the development of the historic Oppa (brother of Wittiza and bishop of Seville) into the chronicle’s Oppa (son of Wittiza and bishop of Toledo), and suggest that he may have been the literary creation of Mozarabic clergy opposed to the type of alliance with the Muslim which Oppa here was represented as favouring; even that ‘con la presencia de Oppas, Asturias se transforma en Toledo’: La formación, pp 275-6. Compare Díaz y Díaz, De Isidoro al siglo XI, p 224.

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48 ‘Nam nunquam est auditum ut Libanenses Toletanos docuissenť: PL 96 (1854) col 918C; Amann, E., L’Époque carolingienne, FM 6 (Paris 1947) pp 130-34Google Scholar. Compare Ríu, M., ‘Revisión del problema adopcionista en la diócesis de Urgel’, AEM 1 (1964) pp 77–96 Google Scholar. The ‘anti-Toledanism’ of Alfonso II’s reign is remarked by Díaz y Díaz, De Isidoro al siglo XI, p 221.

49 Above, n 39. Compare Díaz y Díaz, De Isidoro al siglo XI, p 222.

50 See the version of Oppa’s confrontation with Pelayo in the early twelfth-century Historia Silense, [ed de Urbel, J. Pérez and Ruíz-Zorrilla, A. González] (Madrid 1959) pp 132-4Google Scholar. As late as 1216-17 the archbishop of Braga’s proctor at the papal curia could seek to damage Toledo’s case by recalling ‘quod Opa, quondam archiepiscopus Toletanus . . . apostavit cedens in sectam Mohabitarum et per eum amissa fuit tota Hyspania et recuperata per Bracarensem’: Feige, [P.] [, Die Anfange des portugiesischen Königtums und seiner Landeskirche], Spanischen Forschungen der Görresgesellschaft, I. Reihe: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens, 29 (Münster-in-W 1978) pp 85–436 Google Scholar, at p 399.

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53 Chronicon Johannis Biclarensis, ed Campos, J. (Madrid 1960) pp 89 Google Scholar, 91, 141-3; Vitas . . . V.9.4: ‘qui [scil. Reccaredus] non patrem perfidum sed Christum dominum sequens ab Arianae haereseos pravitate conversus est’—substituting ‘Christum dominum’ for ‘fratrem martyrem’ in Gregory, Dial. 3. 31—cit. Thompson, [E. A.], ‘[The] Conversion [of the Visigoths to Catholicism]’, Nottingham Mediaeval Studies 4 (Nottingham 1960) p 12 Google Scholar. Compare Fontaine, J., ‘Conversion et culture chez les Wisigoths d’Espagne’, SSSpoleto 14 (1967) pp 109-12Google Scholar, 117-20, 143-4.

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58 ‘Coins and Chronicles’ p 501. If Collins is correct in his suggestion that Hermenegild had not converted to Catholicism at the time of his rebellion, then the irony of the situation may be less—but not the interest of the treatment which it received at the hands of later writers: ‘Mérida and Toledo’ pp 215-18.

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62 Maravall, El concepto de España pp 344, 355: ‘Creo que es absolumente indispensable para entender nuestra Edad Media partir de ese principio de fragmentariedad’; Sánchez-Albornoz, , ‘La sucesión al trono [en los reinos de León y Castilla]’, Boletin de la Academia Argentina de Letras 14 (Buenos Aires 1945) pp 35–124 Google Scholar—repr in his Estudios [sobre las instituciones medievales españolas] (Mexico 1965) p 673.

63 Maravall, El concepto de España pp 350, 351, 357, 359.

64 Ibid pp 408-9, 388-99, 366, 380, 384, 369.

65 Schramm, [P. E.] [(trans de Parga, L. Vázquez)], Las insignias[de la realeza en la Edad Media española] (Madrid 1960) p 63 Google Scholar. On unction as ‘el factor constitutivo o al menos confirmante de la legitimidad real’ in the Visigothic period see Rovira, J. Orlandis, ‘La iglesia visigoda y las problemas de la sucesión al trono en el siglo VII’, SSSpoleto 7. i (1960) pp 333-51Google Scholar, esp pp 349-51, and O. Bertolini, G. B. Picotti, L. Prosdocimi, J. M. Lacarra and G. P. Bognetti in discussione, ibid pp 385-95, 398-404; de Aguilera, A. Barbero, ‘El pensamiento político visigodo y las primeras unciones regias en la Europa medieval’, Hispania 30 (Madrid 1970) pp 245–326 Google Scholar, esp pp 314-17. For developments after 711 see Barbero and Vigil, ‘La sucesión al trono’, La formación, p 290.

66 Schramm, Las insignias, p 32. Alfonso X in the thirteenth century scoffed at the thaumaturgic pretensions of the kings of France and England: Maravall, , [‘Del regimen feudal al regimen corporativo en el pensamiento de Alfonso X’], Estudios [de historia del pensamiento español] (2 ed Madrid 1973) p 117 Google Scholar.

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84 ‘La Iglesia de España ha seguido la suerte del Estado en su próspera y adversa fortuna, alentando al combate, exhortando en la pelea, consolando en la derrota, y cortando las rencillas y discordias fraternales: en los escasos momentos de ócio ha manejado la pluma, mientras el guerrero descansaba apoyada en su lanza’: Lafuente 3 pp 379-80.

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88 ‘El sentimiento católico, irresistible en la raza, se sobrepuso a todo instinto de orgullo nacional, por grande y legítimo quefuese’: Menéndez Pelayo 1 p 458; ‘No todas las acciones de los Santos son santas, ni tiene el cristiano obligación de aceptar cada una de ellas en particular. ¿Quien hoy proclamará el papa infalible en política y quien podra igualmente defender la conducta de San Gregorio VII con respecto á España?’: Lafuente 3 pp 363-4.

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103 Ibid p 390.

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105 ‘Accidit ergo quod olim domnus Alfonsus . . . qui antea infans vocabatur, interim terram illam dilatavit (. . .) regnum latum et spaciosum fecit et ab hac sacrosancta sede de infante meruit rex vocari, propter cuius strenuitatem et mentoritorum dotem concessionem a Romana ecclesia per privilegium obtinuit, quod nulla ecclesiastica persona (. . .) in regno suo iurisdicionem vel potestatem aliquam haberet nisi papa vel eius legatus. Obtinuit ius, quod quamcumque terram a Sarracenis occupasset propter exaltacionem fidei, quam (. . .) christianos (. . .) dilataverat Sarracenos opprimendo et eos per archiepiscopum suum Bracarensem ad fidem convertendo, cuicumque vellet, posset supponere ecclesie’; ‘(Bracarensis) archiepiscopus (in capitone) illius terre multas expensas fecerat in expeticione eundo cum rege, sicut mos et consuetudo est terre illius, et ob hoc multas possessiones Bracarensis ecclesie pignerari obligavit, quas pro parte nondum redimere potuit . . .’: ibid 393-4.

106 Ibid pp 335-7.

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109 Ibid p 423.

110 Linehan, , ‘[The] Spanish Church revisited [: the episcopal gravamina of 1279]’, Authority and Power: Studies on Medieval Law and Government presented to Walter Ullmann on his seventieth birthday ed Tierney, B. and Linehan, P. (Cambridge 1980) p 127 Google Scholar and references cited there.

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