Pelayo: arqueología y usos de la imagen desde la perspectiva queer

Abstract

This article shows the use of the figure of Pelayo in three precise historical moments: the Middle Ages, in which the martyrdom of the saint is written; the 16th century, in which the images of the altarpiece of Saint Pelayo were created, coinciding with the proclamation of the Pragmática against sodomy by the Catholic Kings; and the Spanish civil war and the first Francoism, when the altarpiece arrives in the city of Málaga, and the figure of Pelayo takes on new meanings as evidenced by comics and cinema. Methodologically, this article proposes homosexual/queer readings of the figure of Pelayo, linking with the Anglo-Saxon tradition of Queer Iberia, a tradition that, starting with Américo Castro, reviews the literature produced in the Iberian Middle Ages from a queer perspective

Keywords

• Warburg
• Queer Theory
• Homoerotism
• Pelagius