Gutierre Díez de Games

Gutierre Díez de Games was a soldier and historiographer of the XVe century, resulting from the minor nobility Castilian.

Biography

Gutierre Díez de Games is the author of one of the most important chronicles of the end of the Middle Ages in Spain: El Victorial O Crónica of gift Pero Niño . It is about a rare example of medieval biography, testifying to the slip operated by historiography Castilian towards the writing of a particular history, around a central figure. With the XIIIe century, the general chronicles, whose objective was to tell all the facts which have occurred in a given geographical space (generally a kingdom), constituted the rule. Starting from the XIVe century, the historiographers moves away from these collective diagrams to be centered on the life of an individual set up in model. Written in a register close to the accounts of knighthood and voyages, the Victorial reports the life of a Castilian tycoon, named gift Pero Nuño, while also tackling clean questions at the time of its drafting.

The author was, seems it, charged to compose this gigantic narration in prose by his former captain, Pero Niño, which had directed the fleet of the king de Castille Henri II. Eager to be made a fame, the noble one asked for Gutierre Díez Ranges of compose the account of its exploits, which could not integrate traditional historiographic compilations.

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