Building Charisma: The Post-Mortem Sanctity Attributed to the Prince of Viana (d. 1461)
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This is an excellent article with lots of potential. The only problem is that it does not engage with any literature on the nature of holiness. There is no literature review, no engagement with contemporary articles on holiness generally, let alone any other studies about the nature of the relationship between holiness and post-mortem charisma. If this is the first such article to talk about this particular relationship, that's awesome! But you need to find other articles that get close to that relationship and reference them. The article is very thoroughly references as written. If you add a literature review on holiness and an introductory and conclusion paragraph that situate this topic within these literatures, then this is a solid paper. As it is now, however, it is not ready for publication.
Author Response
Thank you very much for your comments. I have carried out a literature review and added a small state of the art with selected references. I hope it will suffice. Actually for the question of sainthood and canonisation processes there is a lot of literature, but for the question of charism there is not. Please find attached the revised article. Thank you very much for your careful reading.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The author of the article collected solid historical and archival material in order to substantiate it on an example of the Prince of Viana another perspective of charisma that the author describes as "constructed" or even "invented". The author proves that a major part of the charisma of the Prince of Viana was the recognition of his friends and political supporters who not only recognized his inherited charisma, but also helped to build it. The charismatic leader became a "driver" rather than a "magnet", as the liberator and hope of a people who felt oppressed and despised by the rulers. The Catalan people, although aware that it was a private and popular cult, venerated him in every possible way, encouraged by a good part of the ecclesiastics, who led this fervor for the prince. As a suggestion for improving the quality of the article, a more detailed explanation of the main characteristics and distinctive features of "constructed" charisma could be given, so that this concept is more clear from a theoretical point of view. In addition, the author uses in the article large quotations in Catalan (pages 6 and 9), making it somewhat difficult to read. Perhaps it might be appropriate to provide them with an English translation.
Author Response
Thank you very much for your comments and suggestions. I have translated into English all the quotations in old Catalan, although I have also respected the original quotation. I hope this will make it clearer. Regarding "constructed charisma", I have referred to Jaume Aurell's article in which he refers to the different types of charisma, to argue this different notion of charisma. Thank you very much for your supervision.
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