Feminine mediation in the "Crónica" and in the "Gran Crónica de Alfonso XI"

Abstract

In this article we shall study the femenine mediation in the two versions of a late fourteenth-century chronicle that narrates Alfonso XI's kingdom in two different historical contexts. Through the study of the feminine mediation in the Crónica and in the Gran Crónica de Alfonso XI we shall try to understand, in the first place, the precise political objectives that defined the writing and rewriting of this text in certain historical contexts and in a particular manner determined by circumstantial needs. In the second place, we will try to unravel which general ideological schemes or matrices serve as a course for the channelling of specific power needs. With this aim, we shall analyze the writing and rewriting of the mediations of Maria de Molina, Maria de Portugal and Juana Núñez in the aforementioned chronicles.