La reescritura de la historia del segundo templo en la Castilla del siglo XVel "Yosippón" castellano como ejemplo de pragmática de la literatura medieval

Resumo

"Yosippon" is a history of the Second Temple of Jerusalem written by the Jewish communities in south ltaly during the 10th century. It was conserved in a Castilian translation (ms. Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo M-54, in Santander), probably made about the middle of the 15th century, and that was diffused among the noble aristocracy. This bibliophile elite, eager of knowledge, read "Yosippon" as an historiographic work that provided them exemplary behaviours and moral lessons. According to a pragmatic method for the literary studies, this paper analyses the initial section of the Castilian "Yosippon", formed by eight chapters that narrate the years before the reign of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. This textual section assembles the stories of several famous kings, whose lives provide morallessons and help to prove a historiographic and chivalresque reading of "Yosippon".