Commentarium in Apocalipsin do Beato de Liébana (1047) : a história de um códice e a fortuna política do surgimento de um manuscrito

Abstract

This research aim to study about Commentarium in Apocalipsin of Beato de Liebana, codex commissioned by king Fernando I and queen Sancha, in year 1047. This document is presented in visigothic handwriting in ecclesiastical Latin, so we have a Christian document of 11th century which raised the following question, why this codex was commissioned by Christian kings? Question that let us to the hypothesis, this would be a document used as a political tool of persuasion of the Christian kings against Muslims and Jews? Throughout the thesis we seek to answer these questions. Noting that both the written text as its numerous illuminated manuscript contributed effectively to the formation of the Revelation Bible text reading is that we propose to carry out in a analysis that trace the most effective power relations between the aristocracy, the monarchy, the Church and calls Muslim and Jewish minorities present in the Iberian Peninsula, in the 11th century. This work holds the historiagraphical sutdy and translation of the first sixty pages of Latin Portuguese of the work Commentarium in Apocalipsin of the Liebana Beato (1047), wich contains twenty-four genealogical tables of the ancestry of Jesus Christ and numerous illuminated manuscript. For this research, we used the medieval studies that relate to cultural history, history of mentalities, ecclesiastical culture and folk culture in the Middle Ages. We analyze the verbal and imagistic content, the symbolic constitution and narrative present in the present in the genealogical tables and the illuminated manuscript that open Commentarium in Apocalipsin (1047) to signify our hypothesis that there was a political and strategic interest on the game of power and persuasion among Christians and non-Christians, in a commissioned work.