LAS HUELLAS CISTERCIENSES EN EL PENSAMIENTO DE JOSÉ JIMÉNEZ LOZANO

This article aims to delve into the link that José Jiménez Lozano established between the Spanish mysticism of the 16th century and the Jansenist movement of Port-Royaldes-Champs through the analysis of the traces of the Cistercian tradition in his diaries and essays. The example of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux contributes to better outline the originality of the aesthetics of nudity and disdain of the author of the Guía espiritual de Castilla. Just as his work of fiction wants to give a voice to the excluded and marginalized, in his essays Castilian geography and art constitute a moral landscape that also deserves to be rescued from oblivion and the ruin to which official accounts have subjected them. Thus, some keys are proposed that help to understand the anamnetic meaning of Spanish history between the Middle Ages and Modernity.