El rei Pere el Cerimoniós i els seus llibres. Les cròniques i la biblioteca de Poblet.

Identifier:  TDX:3198

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3198

Authors:  Puig Gavarró, Gerard

Abstract:
The study focusses on the construction of the political discourse and the image of King Peter the Ceremonious (1336 - 1387) prompted by himself. He promoted various initiatives to fix a memory about his kingship, such as his personal chronicle written by him or the library at the Cistercian monastery of Poblet, understood as a complement to the dynastic pantheon relaunched also by him. King Peter, a reading and cultivate monarch, uses as a model of his speeches some of the works he reads and admires, such as the Bible or the chronicle of James I. This research also traces all the sources of the chronical production of King Peter IV and the bibliographical interest of the monarch. Through his various speeches, oral and writing, he built a very clear image of his figure that over the centuries, it became darker until the distorted image of XIX and even XX and XXI centuries. Through the study we move away from the traditional image of the Ceremonious king and approach his figure to another in which the monarch was the axis of the medieval Catalan political system. Precisely, his chronicle far from being a classical historical book, it is a memory of his image, and among all a precious piece of expression of his political thought. Despite the biblical and dynastic ground, his description of what a king was it appears as a “modern” piece of mid-fourteenth century political thought. In this sense, he describes in this book, considered his political will, the bases of the power of a medieval king.