La religiosidad popular y el providencialismo histórico en las crónicas bizantinas de los "Siglos Oscuros"
- 1 Universidad de Granada-CEBNCh
- Martínez Carrasco, Carlos (ed. lit.)
ISSN: 1137-7003
Year of publication: 2021
Issue Title: La religiosidad popular en el mundo griego. De la Antigüedad a la Grecia contemporánea
Issue: 20
Pages: 113-130
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios neogriegos: Revista científica de la Sociedad Hispánica de Estudios Neogriegos
Abstract
The High Middle Ages is a time of fervent religious context, especially noticeable in the so-called universal chronicles, in accordance with the idea that God governs human life. This providential and popular vision of God is that of a Supreme Judge who rewards and punishes man for his actions. God speaks through the events that must be interpreted in a religious key. In this work we will review the works of Theophanes the Confessor and the Patriarch Nicephorus, dwelling on their ideological conceptions and their common points, analyzing especially the popular and providentialist reading of the events that they present to us.