El cuerpo femenino como archivo de la memoria en las historias medievales de reinas calumniadas del Ms. Esc. h-I-13

Within the framework of current studies on memory and its relationship with identity, the aim of this paper is to study the places and objects of their past that the protagonists of the medieval stories of slandered queens in Ms. H-I-13 of the Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial remember in their sufferings. Florence of Rome, a saintly empress of Rome, and Seville, wife of Charlemagne, occupy the final part of a codex focused on the female figure and her sufferings; in these cases, accusations of adultery expel these women from their kingdoms and allow us to investigate political power in relation to their figures. As a result, the analysis of the artefacts of memory present in the stories (the bodies of these women, as well as the places and objects they remember) determines them as essential archives for the identity and both the personal and collective continuity of these kingdoms.