O rei como modelo de cristão nas crônicas portuguesas

Abstract

This monograph entitled "The King as a Christian model in the Portuguese Chronicles", aims to construct an analysis about the ideal king model that served as an example to his subjects.To do this, highlight the important function of leading your people to glory, salvation and fend off as threats from your country, through wars and to practice good justice. In this sense, the monarch must be Christian and virtuous, possessing messianic characteristics capable of delaying time, on the one hand, a good government and a good Christian, an example of a society. From the Portuguese chronicles we can analyze this king model that is built with positive elements and very close to Christianity. An example is the first Portuguese monarch, Afonso Henriques, to whom Christ crucified has appeared before a battle against the Muslims, reason why the monarch won the battle, in what was known like Miracle of Ourique. Through the study of Portuguese chronicles, we intend to analyze the elements of the good monarchs, associated with attributes of the kings of the Old Testament and how they are models for Portuguese society besides the objective to present final conclusions about the King Afonso Henriques, analyzing how diverse works that this, is present, through the use of symbolic representation of power that takes place through a space of dispute that is characterized as the set of signs that become a name that is final. The Portuguese state materializes through the figure of the King and the memory that gives the sense of belonging to the Portuguese people. Afonso Henriques and his warlike and messianic character are related to other monarchs, who seek to link to his image, intercalating as his stories (D. João I and D. Sebastião).