El marco de la historia : el papel de la profecía en la Historia regum Britanniae de Geoffrey de Monmouth

ABSTRACT: This article will use close textual analysis in order to examine the role played by prophecy and the supernatural in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. This immensely popular and influential work includes three instances of prophetic vision: the first comes early in the narr...

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Autores:
Escobar Vargas, María Carolina
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/9454
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10495/9454
Palabra clave:
Profecías
Prophecies
Sueños
Dreams
Visiones
Visions
Crónicas
Crónicas medievales
Análisis de textos
Monmouth, Geoffrey de, 1100-1155. Regum Britanniae
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)
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Summary:ABSTRACT: This article will use close textual analysis in order to examine the role played by prophecy and the supernatural in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. This immensely popular and influential work includes three instances of prophetic vision: the first comes early in the narrative in a pagan setting when Bruto, the mythical founder of Britain, receives a message from the goddess Diana, in a dream; the last vision is a divine revelation from an angel to the last Cristian king of Britain, Cadwallader; during the peak of the narrative, king Arthur also experiences a dream-vision. This article shows that these three instances of prophecy frame the narrative around the «passage of dominion», acting as its structural points. In Geoffrey’s text, dream-visions and prophecies frame the narrative, and therefore they also frame History.