Séneca en la Corte real de Castilla: fragmentos de monarquía en torno a la traducción De la clemençia al Emperador Nero de Alfonso de Cartagena
De clementia, a treatise addressed to the Emperor Nero by Seneca around 55-56 A. D., was the subject of a translation for Juan II of Castile, undertaken by Alfonso de Cartagena at the beginning of the 1430s. This essay seeks to reconstruct the cultural, legal and political context in which this tran...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/720702 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/720702 https://dx.doi.org/10.3989/aem.2024.54.1.1333 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | absolute real power clemency Crown of Castile forgiveness Seneca Alfonso de Cartagena Historia |
| Sumario: | De clementia, a treatise addressed to the Emperor Nero by Seneca around 55-56 A. D., was the subject of a translation for Juan II of Castile, undertaken by Alfonso de Cartagena at the beginning of the 1430s. This essay seeks to reconstruct the cultural, legal and political context in which this translation was carried out. It was marked by the promotion of the idea of using the royal pardon as a means to achieve peace in the kingdom and by the centralisation of power in the hands of the monarch, in which clemency, the central reason for the treatise, was presented as an argument that legitimised the said forgiveness and as a self-regulating mechanism of a form of power presented as absolute; this followed the model of the Roman imperial monarchy defended by Seneca in his treatise. The analysis will also allow us to analyse how this ideology was transferred between the Roman period and the Late Middle Ages and the political impact of the essay on fifteenth-century Castile. |
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