Rex Iudex o principes iudices. La batalla por el poder medieval en el pensamiento manuelino (s. XIV)

ASISS GONZALEZ, FEDERICO JAVIER; CHIAPPERO, MARTHA LUCIANA

San Juan

Congreso; I Congreso Binacional de Investigación Científica; 2017

Universidad Nacional de San Juan - Universidad Católica de Cuyo - Universidad de La Serena - Gobierno de San Juan

The writings of don Juan Manuel, taken as literary monuments of Spanish language for a long time, not only boil down political, social and religious theories of previous centuries, and in some cases their later expression. In that trifunctional social order that the author outlines, a contradictory and complex representation of nobility emerges through several identity traits. From among them, in the current paper framed within the New Cultural History and the New Political History, we approach Lord justice as a facet originally interpreted by don Juan. In the frame of his dynastic and political disputes with the Castilian monarchy, several means to fundament a noble class, free of interference of the monarchy will be used, but perhaps there will not exist a more offensive one than to question the role of the king as a source, chosen by God, as the jurisdiction of His kingdom. His collegiate vision, in which the practice of Sovereign justice is not a royal prerogative, not only implied a questioning of the rex iudex figure, but also the exercise of royal power in all spheres of public life under this concept. Thus, through comparison with treaties and full legislations, late medieval as well as local, vg. Fuero Juzgo or the Partidas, and European vg. Policraticus, or the works of John Fortescue, we will look into sizing the theoretical implications of the idea of the king as a place where ´justice lies´ (II, I, V) in the political level, as it was declared by the Partidas.