EL CORPUS EN SEVILLA A MEDIADOS DEL SIGLO XVI. CASTILLOS Y DANZAS

Abstract

This paper presents some notices about the Corpus Christi feast at Seville, during the years before the middle of the century. The documents we deal with are referred to dances and "castillos" (castles), a kind of platforms with figures, that in this date used to be human persones, that were plaing during the procesion. The subjets represented in the "castillos", the asociations who paid that, and the kind of dances which accompanied it are studied here.