De scriptoria medievalia. The written production of bishop Mauricio and the consolidation of the castillian see (1213-1238)

Abstract

Historiography has considered Bishop Mauricio de Burgos as one of the key pieces in the religious, political and social life of the Hispanic Middle Ages. The wealth of events and the changes that are taking place in the episcopal sees regarding the guidelines of the IV Lateran Council together with the succession disputes in Castile and the arrival of such important monarchs as Fernando III were the breeding ground that served the Burgos prelate to impose his supremacy in the effective control of churches, monasteries and regular and secular clergy and to become one of the arbiters of political life of his time. As is logical, everything has been reflected in the written production of these years. The purpose of this article is to analyze a series of documents and inscriptions that are a reflection of these events, showing a series of novelties and particularities in the capitular and episcopal tables and also in the lapidary offices of their jurisdiction.