Juzgar en nombre de Dios: La justicia en el discurso señorial manuelino (s. XIV)

Abstract

The punitive power was the support of the imperium of emperors and medieval kings given by God. To make die and stop live were both poles in what it was expressing, across the Justice, the will and the monarchic power. Don Juan Manuel, knowing this, fixes a clear and controversial theory on the Justice in which the Knowledge, the Divinity and the Power interlace. Likewise, in an indirect way, he lays the foundations of a theory of the exercise of the power different from the argued one for the theoretical monarchic politicians and to the structure of the future modern State. However, this aspect of his work has not been worn out for the historical and literary research with the due attention, leaving important variables without analyzing to understand better the thought of the author. Situation that the current work seeks to revert partly.

Keywords

• justice
• don Juan Manuel
• power
• knowledge
• king