“Lanzarían grandes carcajadas”: lo apócrifo del "flos sanctorum" y la burla de los protestantes
Studying the treatment of apocryphal matter in the Castilian <em>flos sanctorum </em>demands to revisit its medieval sources, to observe that tolerance with the less severe categories of the apocryphal was restricted in the 16th Century, in the context of the Protestant Reformation. This is perceive...
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| Format: | Article |
| Publication date: | 2020 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Navarra |
| Repository: | Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/61341 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/61341 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Hagiografía apócriva Flos sanctorum Controversia sobre los santos Crítica y burla luterana Lippomano Surio Villegas Ribadeneira |
| Summary: | Studying the treatment of apocryphal matter in the Castilian <em>flos sanctorum </em>demands to revisit its medieval sources, to observe that tolerance with the less severe categories of the apocryphal was restricted in the 16th Century, in the context of the Protestant Reformation. This is perceived by comparing the intentions declared in the forewords by the Catholic compilers and their antagonists. In terms of criteria that were not alien to Catholic reformers, but that are intensified as a reaction to Lutheran criticism, post-Tridentine Catholic hagiographers repudiate not only the false, but also the doubtful and the written by unknown authors, thus distancing themselves from the medieval permissiveness with the last two categories. In addition, the mockery of hagiographic falsehoods becomes a weapon for Lutherans and a threat that must be prevented for Catholics. By attending to these approaches it is found that the Italian Lippomano and the German Surius, beyond being the source of the material for Villegas and Ribadeneira, the main post-Tridentine Castilian hagiographers, provide them also with methodological guidelines and criteria of orthodoxy. |
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