Notas para una reflexión sobre el cristocentrismo y la devoción medieval a la Pasión y para su estudio en el medio rural castellano

Abstract

This study presents a methodological reflection on medieval devotion to Jesus Christ, especially to Christ’s sufferings in his Passion. It critically analyses the characteristics of spirituality between the 11 th and 13 th centuries, which supposedly focused on Christ’s humanity. We also emphasize the complexity of the pathetic piety of the next two centuries. Finally we propose an approach to the profile of this type of devotion in a specific area of research, a Castilian rural territory at the end of the Middle Ages (Campo de Calatrava), as a contribution to people’s religiousness knowledge.