Abstract

Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries the role of the secular elite in western European society was discussed, redefined and celebrated by clerical writers as never before, while the aristocracy itself embraced the 'higher ethos' of knighthood that began to circulate and became far more concerned to broadcast its claims to social dominance and exclusivity than had previously been the case. This article explores the manner in which the burgeoning 'cult of aristocracy' was embraced in the realms of Christian Iberia, paying particular attention to the Poem of Almeria of c.1150, a Latin epic song of praise to the military prowess of the court magnates of Alfonso VII of Leon-Castile (1126–57). It is argued that although it is tempting to regard the work as the swan-song of a dying Latin epic tradition, in ideological terms the Poem, with its exuberant celebration of the aristocratic ethic, marked a strikingly original departure in peninsular literary composition.Durante los siglos XI al XIII el papel d...

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