Rela es de poder na Vita Sancti Fructuosi e na Vita Dominici Siliensis: santos, monges, reis e nobres em duas hagiografias ibéricas

This article presents partial findings from an ongoing study supported by FAPERJ entitled Hagiography, society and power: a comparative study of the visigothic and medieval Castilian production. This research have collective character and the main objective is to compare, in synchronic and diachronic perspective, four hagiographic texts produced in the Iberian peninsula, in different periods and contexts of the Middle Ages, namely, the visigothic kingdom and the Castile kingdom. The works in question are Vita Sancti Aemiliani (VSA), Vita Sancti Fructuoso (VF), Vita Dominici Siliensis (VDci) and Vida de San Millan de la Cogolla (VSM). In this paper, we chose to compare the Vita Sancti Fructuoso (VF) and the Vita Dominici Siliensis (VDci), since the set of hagiographies selected by the research, they relate directly to the monastic universe: Frutuoso, the protagonist of VF, and Domingo, the protagonist of VDci lived cenobitics’ experiences. We are interested in focusing on the monastic communities and their members having as a central reference the links that were established from them with the kings and nobility. Observation the power relations imposed by these actors, we want to identify and analyze the various strategies that influence, oppress, control, resist, and, finally, interact each one with each other.