María de Molina y las diferentes lecturas sobre una mujer heroica en la España del siglo XIX

Abstract

This paper focuses on the different meanings that the figure of María de Molina (h. 1260-1321) acquired during the nineteenth century Spain, based on the analysis of different manifestations, some of them unknown hitherto. Most of them provided a close marked political reading. Furthermore, they were adapted to different historical moments, from the regency of Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies to the Restoration. His presence in the painting, the engraving, the literature and the history books consolidated her as one of the great heroines of medieval history rescued from silence in the difficult and changing nineteenth century.

Keywords

• antonio maría esquivel
• antonio gisbert
• carlos múgica
• maría de molina
• history painting