Entre la historia y la ficción: Dictis y Dares como modelos de la Historia Karoli Magni (Pseudo-Turpín) y el De gestis Britonum de Jofre de Monmouth

Abstract

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum and Aimeric Picaud’s Historia Karoli Magni are, according to their manuscript fortune, the most successful Latin prose narratives of the Middle Ages. They are also, given their presumed status as stories, the legitimate basis on which the two most productive literary cycles of the Middle Ages are based: the Arthurian matter and the Carolingian matter. The article proposes as hypothesis that both authors knew their respective works and shows how, simultaneously and in parallel, they managed to blend into the historiographical context of their time, through a perfect knowledge of the conventions of the genre; and through authorization strategies that were modeled on the De excidio Troiae of Dares the Phrygian and the Ephemeris belli Troaini of Dictis of Crete