Uma epístola do Papa Calisto II para a Hispânia (1123): ecos de Clermont Ferrant no Primeiro Concílio de Latrão mirando além-Pirinéus

Abstract

The present study analyses an epistle of XII century, drawn from the First Council of the Lateran (1123), which invoke the participation of latin christians in the military response against the almoravids which occupied the south of the Iberian Peninsula. Our discussion, supported by the precept of the New Political History, deepens this apparently isolated and personal decision in to integrate the nature and content of this initiative in a wider sense, through the analysis of other initiatives of Pope Callixtus II in his pontifical administration. The understanding of having been a pontiff who continued the policies of his predecessors, specially Urban II, allowed us to comprehend that the focus in Hispania was part of a complementary sense of internal and external expansion of the interests of Rome, approaching in a single process the conquest of the Holy Land and of peninsular territories, both legitimized, sacralizing the result of the expansion of the limits of Latin Christianity.