Del rojo al negro: indicios de un cambio de mentalidad en fuentes medievales hispanas del siglo X
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2020
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Martín Prieto, Pablo: Del rojo al negro: indicios de un cambio de mentalidad en fuentes medievales hispanas del siglo X, Anuario de Estudios Medievales 50/1 (2020) 211-230
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En este artículo se abordan algunos indicios de cambio de mentalidad acerca de la percepción y valor simbólico de los colores básicos en algunas fuentes medievales de la España cristiana. Cierta interesante diferencia de transmisión que afecta a una cita bíblica en concreto –Is 1, 18– hallada tanto en el Antifonario visigótico de la catedral de León como en un diploma real de Ramiro III, apunta a dicho cambio de mentalidad referido a la concepción del negro, y no ya del rojo, como el nuevo color en ser considerado como esencialmente opuesto al blanco. Este cambio se examina asimismo a la luz de algunos ejemplos tomados del acervo de la literatura cristiana occidental.
This paper considers some evidence for a change in mentality concerning the perception and symbolic values of the basic colours in certain Christian sources from medieval Spain. A number of interesting differences in the transmission of a specifi c Biblical quotation –Is 1:18– observed both in the Visigothic Antiphonary of the León Cathedral and in a charter of King Ramiro III point to this change in mentality, underlining the concept of black, and no longer red, as the new colour considered as essentially opposite to white. This change is further examined in the light of some examples from Western Christian literature.
This paper considers some evidence for a change in mentality concerning the perception and symbolic values of the basic colours in certain Christian sources from medieval Spain. A number of interesting differences in the transmission of a specifi c Biblical quotation –Is 1:18– observed both in the Visigothic Antiphonary of the León Cathedral and in a charter of King Ramiro III point to this change in mentality, underlining the concept of black, and no longer red, as the new colour considered as essentially opposite to white. This change is further examined in the light of some examples from Western Christian literature.