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Teofilo Fabian Ruiz, « Une royauté sans sacre : la monarchie castillane du bas Moyen Âge », Annales (documents), ID : 10.3406/ahess.1984.283070
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Unsacred Monarchy : the Kings of Castile in the Late Middle Ages. The sacral and thaumaturgical monarchy of England and France, characterized by ritual crowning and anointing with holy oil, has long been a familiar model of medieval kingship. This article examines how, from the mid-twelfth century, the Castillan and Spanish rulers, with few exceptions, rejected the traditional emblems of power and authority in use elsewhere in the medieval West. Never did the kings of Castile claim seriously to have the power to heal the sick ; nor did their birth, ascent to the throne, dying and burial enjoy any of the elaborate rituals associated with royalty in England or France. Instead the kings of Castile signaled their ascent to power with rituals and symbols of marked popular and martial flavor. Several tentative explanations can be advanced for the development of unsacred monarchy in Castile. Among them the most important were : the military character of the society, the pragmatic nature of its religious beliefs, and the influence of Islamic models of political authority.
