Published 2013-11-01
“…Abstract: In the decades after the death of Alfonso X, the kings and queens of Castile seem to have been surrounded by a variegated series of images –either real objects or mental pictures– generated around several key metaphors for the Western imagery of kinship. In these
works –painted or sculpted galleries of kings, historiographical texts, heraldic emblems– political and family tensions arise, revealing also the role played by images in the articulation of historical narratives and dynastic memory.
…”
Get full text
Article