Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, Óscar Perea. Escitia and Escancia (or Escandia), the fabulous northern past of the hispanic neogoticism of the fifteenth century. Medievalista [online]. 2022, n.31, pp.185-214.  Epub June 30, 2022. ISSN 1646-740X.  https://doi.org/10.4000/medievalista.5117.

This paper analyses neo-gothicism and its impact on the ideological propaganda in the Hispanic Middle Ages (9th-15th c.), since the initial steps taken in the Visigoth era until its apogee in early medieval chronicles, as well as both its disappearance and its recovery occurred between the 15th and 16th c. via both genealogical and poetry works. This paper also provides a specific analysis of the role played in this recovery by the name of two geographical locations, Scythia and Escancia, in the building of apologetic images, as a result of their political prestige derived from the fact that they were pointed as the very original lands in which the epic of the Visigoths began.

Keywords : Visigoths; neo-gothicism; cancionero poetry; political propaganda; Medieval literature; Catholic Monarchs; medieval chronicles.

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