Project DEGRUPE: Goals and Historiographical Contextualization

• Main Authors: COELHO, Maria Helena da Cruz, VILAR, Herminia Vasconcelos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Belvedere Meridionale LTD. 2015-07-01
• Series: Belvedere Meridionale
• Subjects: power elites; culture and politics; compared history; historiography
• Online Access: http://www.belvedere-meridionale.hu/wp-content/uploads/2015/nyar/07_coelho_2015_02.pdf

This paper aims to present the main axes of the project DEGRUPE whose principal objective is to study the role of the clergy in the construction of the Iberian monarchies and mobility circuits designed by these protagonists. To fulfill this objective, the interuniversity project team of DEGRUPE opted for a comparative perspective between different kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. The second part of this paper consists of a brief analysis of the underlying historiographical framework of the project including mainly research on relationship between clergy and royalty in the middle ages.