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Santa Tecla, San Jorge y Santa Bárbara: Los monarcas de la Corona de Aragón a la búsqueda de reliquias en Oriente (siglos XIV-XV)

Authors: Baydal, Vicent;

Santa Tecla, San Jorge y Santa Bárbara: Los monarcas de la Corona de Aragón a la búsqueda de reliquias en Oriente (siglos XIV-XV)

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(ES) La veneración de las reliquias de figuras bíblicas, mártires y santos caracterizó al cristianismo prácticamente desde sus inicios. Sin embargo, fue partir del siglo XI, con la aparición de las monarquías feudales y la expansión de la sociedad europea, cuando las reliquias que se conservaban en tierras orientales pasaron a convertirse en uno de los objetos más codiciados por los reyes occidentales tanto por su valor económico como por su función simbólica. En el caso concreto de la Corona de Aragón, la monarquía llevó a cabo una activa política de adquisición de reliquias entre principios de siglo XIV y comienzos del XV, en la que destacaron tres casos particulares: el del brazo de Santa Tecla, conservado en Armenia, el de la cabeza de San Jorge, en tierras griegas, y el del cuerpo de Santa Bárbara, en El Cairo. En conjunto, aunque la monarquía catalano-aragonesa sólo consiguió la primera reliquia, los reiterados intentos por obtener las otras dos muestran que el tráfico de restos sacros fue uno de los puntos de contacto –bélico, diplomático, comercial e identitario- más intensos entre Occidente y las sociedades orientales a lo largo del período tardomedieval.

(EN) Virtually since its inception Christianism was characterized by veneration of relics of biblical figures, martyrs and saints. Afterwards, with the emergence of feudal monarchies and the expansion of European society from the eleventh century, the Oriental relics became one of the most coveted objects by western kings both for its economic value as for its symbolic function. In the case of the Crown of Aragon, the monarchy carried out an active policy of relics’ acquisition from the early fourteenth century to the beginning of the fifteenth one, in which highlighted three particular cases: the arm of Saint Thecla, preserved in Armenia the head of Saint George, in Greek lands, and the body of Saint Barbara, in Cairo. Overall, although the Catalan-Aragonese monarchy only got the first relic, the repeated attempts to get the other two show that traffic of sacred remains was one of the most intense points of military, diplomatic, commercial and identity contact between the West and Eastern societies during the late medieval period. Key words: Armenia. Crown of Aragon. Cult of saints. Egypt. 14th and 15th centuries. Greece. Relics.

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Greece, Armenia, Corona de Aragón, Culto a los santos, Siglos XIV y XV, Reliquias, Crown of Aragon, Cult of saints, Relics, 15th century, Egypt, 14th century, Egipto, Grecia

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