The Depiction of the Saracen Foreign Rule in the Prophetic Chronicle Through Biblical Knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-239
Author(s):  
Patrick S. Marschner
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious Other

Abstract The intention of this article is to interpret the biblical elements in the Prophetic Chronicle concerning their role in the process of identification of the cultural and religious Other in the Iberian Peninsula. To understand the Christian strategies of identification, the article contrasts the biblical elements in the text with their appearance in the Bible and compares the corresponding narrations. Since the contemporary foreign rulers over major parts of the former Visigothic kingdom were named almost entirely with biblically connoted ethnonyms, understanding these denominations is necessary to investigate both the perception and depiction of the Arab rulers of Hispania. Consequently, this article can point out the importance of the biblical elements in Christian-Iberian historical writing for research on the transcultural Iberian Peninsula and simultaneously offers new insight about the Prophetic Chronicle.

New evidence concerning the origin of the monophonic chants in the Codex Calixtinus

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
SANTIAGO RUIZ TORRES
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Patristic Literature ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

ABSTRACTThe recent discovery of several fragments of an antiphoner in the Archive of the Cathedral of Sigüenza (Guadalajara) with repertoire for the feast of St James the Apostle sheds new light on the origin of the monophonic chants of the Codex Calixtinus. The dating of the fragments to c.1100 demonstrates the existence of an officium proprium prior to the writing of the famous Compostelan codex, a fact hitherto unknown. Part of the repertoire collected in the Sigüenza manuscript, particularly the antiphon Honorabilem eximii and the responsory Alme perpetue, evidence textual and melodic concordances with Calixtinus. Moreover, some chants in the Sigüenza Antiphoner, and not in Calixtinus, were widely known across the Iberian Peninsula before the Tridentine liturgical unification. This evidence suggests that the compilers of the monophonic Office in the Codex Calixtinus knew the version transmitted in the recently discovered fragments. The consequent remodelling of the St James Office was probably due to the fact that it incorporated many legendary elements. At the beginning of the twelfth century, the Church of Compostela was actively seeking to legitimise its apostolicity, which Rome seriously questioned. To do so, it was essential to offer a liturgical corpus of proven authority, based on the Bible and the patristic literature.

Biblical History and the end of Times: Seventh-Century Christian Accounts of the Rise of Islam

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Jessica Lee Ehinger
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

By the time of the rise of Islam in the early seventh century, Christian writers had already developed a complex methodology of historical writing, one that was not merely concerned with preserving the history of past events, but which viewed contemporary and past events through the lens of the biblical narrative of history, from creation to the ultimate end as prophesied in the eschatological books of the Bible. In this model, the history of the world could be traced from creation to follow the story of God’s revelation of himself to humankind through the prophets, through inspired Scripture and, most importantly, through Christ.

Bound by the Bible

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Kessler
Keyword(s):  
The Bible

The Bible and Empire

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Sugirtharajah
Keyword(s):  
The Bible
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