Between two medieval patterns of justice: The narratives of the Portuguese Ancestral Books and of the Iberian chronics (XIII-XIV centuries)
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This article attempts to discuss some social and political aspects related to the mediation forms that, through the figure of the King, regulated the Iberian Medieval justice, verifying as this type of mediation – involving different social groups and arbitrating disputes between them arising – appeared in the narratives included in the Chronics and Genealogies of the epoch The relations between History, Justice and Power are discussed in the ambit of an specific narrative discourse and through methodologies directed to an structural analysis, highlighting the sequential analysis proposed by Tzvetan Todorov and the genetic sociology by Lucien Goldman, culminating with a comparative analysis that aimed the confront between two distinctive patterns of king’s mediation identified in the resources. The mainly narrative sources examined are the called “books of lineages”, that were genealogies of the medieval Iberian nobility produced in the Portuguese kingdom.
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