“In palatio et in purpura”: El culto a Santa Isabel de Hungría en Castilla a través del estudio del BnF NAL 868 (1235-1504)
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2025
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Isabel de Hungría, o de Turingia, según nacimiento o matrimonio, fue canonizada en1235 tan solo cuatro años después de su fallecimiento a la edad de veinticuatro años en la ciudad de Marburgo, donde había fundado un hospital para el cuidado de pobres y enfermos. Su proceso de canonización, uno de los primeros en ser objeto de una inquisitio papal, generó una serie de escritos que fueron la base para los textos sobre su vida y milagros que comenzaron a surgir desde época muy temprana. Dichos textos fueron evolucionando a lo largo de los siglos XIII y XIV, con la adición de nuevos episodios o el cambio de énfasis en diferentes aspectos de la vida de Isabel, cuyo objetivo era adaptar el culto a las tendencias devocionales cambiantes y a la variedad de públicos receptores. En paralelo a la tradición hagiográfica textual de santa Isabel, se desarrolló una tradición pictórica que evolucionó de manera similar a los escritos. Partiendo del foco de Marburgo, donde fue enterrada Isabel y donde surgieron los primeros ciclos pictóricos de su vida, las representaciones de la Santa, en varios tipos de soportes, se extendieron por diversos territorios europeos (el Sacro Imperio, Francia, la península itálica, los reinos ibéricos) y se diversificaron en función del contexto receptor. Así, en ocasiones el énfasis se colocó en Isabel como esposa y mujer noble de caridad excepcional, mientras que en otras se hizo hincapié en sus relaciones con el entorno franciscano y en su papel como viuda...
St. Elisabeth of Hungary, or Thuringia, by birth or marriage, was canonised in 1235, only four years after her death in the city of Marburg at the age of twenty-four. The process of her canonisation, one of the first to be the subject of a papal inquisitio, generated a series of documents which became the foundation for texts about her life and miracles that soon started to appear. These texts evolved throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, adding new episodes and shifting the emphasis on certain aspects of Elisabeth’s life, to adapt the cult to the changing devotional practices and the variety of growing audiences. Parallel to the textual hagiographical tradition of St. Elisabeth, there was the development of a pictorial tradition that evolved in a similar manner to the texts. Starting with her shrine in Marburg, where Elisabeth was buried and the first pictorial cycles were created, the representations of the saint, in different media, spread among various European territories (the Holy Roman Empire, France, the Italian Peninsula, the Iberian kingdoms) and diversified as a result of each new audience. As such, sometimes the emphasis was placed on Elisabeth as a wife and noblewoman of exceptional piety, whereas at other times the spotlight was focused on her relationships with the Franciscan entourage and her role as a widow...
St. Elisabeth of Hungary, or Thuringia, by birth or marriage, was canonised in 1235, only four years after her death in the city of Marburg at the age of twenty-four. The process of her canonisation, one of the first to be the subject of a papal inquisitio, generated a series of documents which became the foundation for texts about her life and miracles that soon started to appear. These texts evolved throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, adding new episodes and shifting the emphasis on certain aspects of Elisabeth’s life, to adapt the cult to the changing devotional practices and the variety of growing audiences. Parallel to the textual hagiographical tradition of St. Elisabeth, there was the development of a pictorial tradition that evolved in a similar manner to the texts. Starting with her shrine in Marburg, where Elisabeth was buried and the first pictorial cycles were created, the representations of the saint, in different media, spread among various European territories (the Holy Roman Empire, France, the Italian Peninsula, the Iberian kingdoms) and diversified as a result of each new audience. As such, sometimes the emphasis was placed on Elisabeth as a wife and noblewoman of exceptional piety, whereas at other times the spotlight was focused on her relationships with the Franciscan entourage and her role as a widow...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, leída el 27/01/2025











