Guerra, história e poder: as narrativas sobre a Batalha de Hastings como estratégia de legitimação da dinastia normanda dos reis inglêses (1066-1135)

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Cruz, Paulo Christian Martins Marques Da [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Battle Of Hastings; Norman Dynasty Of The English Kings; Legitimation Of Power; Medieval Historiography; Norman Myth.; Batalha De Hastings; Dinastia Normanda Dos Reis Inglêses; Legitimação Do Poder; Historiografia Medieval; Mito Normando
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=8039383; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/59752

This study intends to analyze the construction and maintenance of the legitimacy of the Norman dynasty of the English kings (1066-1135), through four important narratives on the Battle of Hastings, that took place on October 14, 1066. These are: the Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, the Gesta Willelmi (c.1077), of William de Poitiers, the Gesta Regum Anglorum (c. 1125), of William of Malmesbury, and the Historia Anglorum (c. 1135) of Henry of Huntingdon. We believe that these authors opted for certain legitimate strategies within this narrative, whose specificities and recurrences, would be aligned with rhetorical traditions linked to the Duchy of Normandy and the pre-Conquest period of England. Still, the choice of certain strategies, such as those related to the so-called Norman myth, would depend on broader political conjunctures, whose reverberations in the Norman court could influence these writings of history. As a support for our argument, we will analyze the process of constitution of rhetorical traditions in both territories, which would follow the historical process of introduction and development of monastic institutions, especially abbeys. Such institutions, as well as the religious functions exercised by the authors of these texts, would enjoy the patronage of this Norman power. On this relationship, we will privilege the analysis of ducal and royal letters, which could better demonstrate how these practices developed. Finally, this approximation between the royal power and these authors, would allow us to understand not only the existence of these texts, but an intercirculation of them in the Anglo-Norman universe, thus forming a narrative corpus of legitimacy.