Tirant lo Blanc: Narrative Themes and Historical Context
Tirant lo Blanc: Thematic Narrative
Tirant lo Blanc Thematic Narrative No. XIII – XV Religious and Moral, Historical (Ramon Llull), philosophical (Bernat Metge), historical (chronicles) romantic fiction (Tirant lo Blanc and Ramon Llull Curial e Güelfa anonymous) – Lull The figure is representative of the effort of the Christian society to be hegemonic.
Ramon Llull’s Vital Tasks
Draft vital tasks:
- Writing works that spread the Christian doctrine around the world and proposing reforms to bring the company to this ideal.
- Foundation Descola where he taught his philosophical system, its art, and also Arabic and other oriental languages, languages that could facilitate communication with missionaries to unbelievers.
- Apostolic travels within its main European knowledge of the period, as properly to land of the Saracens.
The work of Ramon Llull includes: art, moral and didactic religious works (Book of the Gentile and Three Wise Men, a discussion of Christian and a Muslim scholar and a Jew to Gentile dun) Poetry (Book of Lover and Beloved) and the Novel (Book of Wonders)
Historical Fiction: The Book of James I
First work on historical medieval narrative, is an autobiographical opens that Sinica with some brief family history of the monarch and quickly introduced the engendrament its advent: (narrates conquest of Valencia , murcia mallorca) Lint LOBR Liaison is the different values of the protagonist. As King says peace and administering justice among their subjects. As a horse Leroi conqueror of lands to Christianity. These papers, however, conceal the funds strictly human. The narration is first person, as befits a king, James I used the plural majestic, especially the pronoun “We. As the language is alive, permeated doralitat even fragments of unfinished sentences in other languages …
Chronicles of Bernat Desclot and Ramon Muntaner
Bernat Desclot’s Chronicle was written by an official of the royal curia. The historical period discussed in this work is broad, as the basis of his work combines Desclot’s reconstruction of events with several contemporary witnesses to the consultation document which had its reach the royal archive. Only the first part the author also walks legendary sources. The expresivitat the talks is remarkable and reflects accurately the situation and feelings of the characters soul. Lestil Desclot is sober, clear and serve as a model for the author of Curial e Guelfa.
Chronicle of Ramon Muntaner is a more extensive work than the previous two. Muntaner recounts, almost in the manner of a memoir, the relationships throughout his life he had with the House of Barcelona, especially their participation in the conquest of Minorca and the military campaign almogavers in the Eastern Mediterranean. Her narrative focuses solely on real events and aims to show how the deeds of kings dAragó are providential, that is, the fruit of God’s favor to the family count. Secondly, the thrill of the political unity of the nation. And last but not least, the praise of the Catalan language and its unity over the linguistic domain.
Chronicle of Peter III of Aragon
King Peter III of Aragon said it pleased him in reading the Book of FACTS of his grandfather James I and was probably inspired to write his “chronic” a century later. As James I of Aragon made a brief presentation of their family history in six chapters and reviewing the main issues of his reign, while justifying its policy. This chronicle differs markedly from the previous three because it represents the tone that characterizes heroic. On the contrary, Peter III commissioned his collaborators REDAT that certain passages in the form of intake from official documents. But there are two points closer to the style that James I: The use of expressions in other languages and the inclusion of personal memories of King.