Vestigio de una vocación secular: la armería de los duques de Arcos  (siglos XVI-XVII)

Juan Francisco Torres Cubero

doi:10.12795/hid.2024.i51.16

A Vestige of a Centuries-Old Vocation: The Armoury of the Dukes of Arcos (16th-17th Centuries)

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Juan Francisco Torres Cubero Universidad de Córdoba

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https://doi.org/10.12795/hid.2024.i51.16

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Collecting, image of power, Renaissance and Baroque noble armouries, armament, arms and armours, firearms, production centres, Ponce de León

Abstract

ABSTRACT: During the Early Modern Age, the identity of the Ducal House of Arcos was founded mainly on a past of glory and military exploits, making warrior prowess a congenital quality of the lineage. This article studies the projection of this chivalrous vocation through one of the most interesting forms of symbolic representation of the nobility, that of arms, in which the dukes participated by assembling a varied armoury in their palace at Marchena. Armours, cutlasses, pistols and katanas made up an ensemble that we can only partially approach during the 16th and 17th centuries, but which undoubtedly constituted an element of interest for the lords. Along with other outstanding spaces of the ducal palace, it formed an inseparable part of its image and character.

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2024-12-05

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Torres Cubero, J. F. (2024) “A Vestige of a Centuries-Old Vocation: The Armoury of the Dukes of Arcos (16th-17th Centuries)”, Historia. Instituciones. Documentos, (51), pp. 431–456. doi: 10.12795/hid.2024.i51.16.

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No. 51 (2024)

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