In May 1561, King Philip II informed the town hall of Madrid that he had chosen their town as the site for his royal residence and court. That year, the city was swiftly transformed into the Catholic king’s court and the heart of his vast monarchy. It also became the principal political and cultural space for the nobility. Yet the greatest noble houses, particularly those in Castile, were initially resistant to the establishment of a sedentary royal court and continued to exercise and represent their status at their own traditional courts. Increasingly, however, they were obliged to reside in Madrid in order to ensure direct access to the king’s grace and favour. Throughout the seventeenth century, the Spanish aristocracy became courtiers t...
Las estrategias de integración que utilizaron los monarcas castellanos de la primera mitad del siglo...
During the reign of Archdukes Albrecht and Isabella the old ducal palace at the Coudenberg in Brusse...
En el siguiente artículo se presentarán experiencias de vidas «privadas» de algunos nobles cortesano...
Thanks to a recent proliferation of international and multidisciplinary research groups, the Spanish...
A mediados del siglo XVIII, las tradicionales residencias aristocráticas de la capital madrileña, de...
The aim of this article is to show how the composite and international domains and fiefs of early mo...
L’établissement de la Cour à Madrid en 1561 et l’obtention de son nouveau statut de capitale des Esp...
Castilian towns and villages had a long development process in medieval times. Then, they were forme...
The research is focused on the architecture of the nobility, specifically the higher ranks of court ...
Una de las mayores contradicciones que se percibe en la evolución de la Monarquíahispana es la defin...
The accession of the House of Bourbon to the Spanish throne after the death of the last Habsburg kin...
By the early seventeenth century, petitioners at the royal court in Madrid who claimed descent from ...
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries tens of thousands of Castilians initiated lawsuits at...
After the comunero revolution of 1520-1521, Charles I (1516-1555) defended Castilian constitutional ...
The jurisdictional activity of the King of Castile originally took place in the intimacy and privacy...
Las estrategias de integración que utilizaron los monarcas castellanos de la primera mitad del siglo...
During the reign of Archdukes Albrecht and Isabella the old ducal palace at the Coudenberg in Brusse...
En el siguiente artículo se presentarán experiencias de vidas «privadas» de algunos nobles cortesano...
Thanks to a recent proliferation of international and multidisciplinary research groups, the Spanish...
A mediados del siglo XVIII, las tradicionales residencias aristocráticas de la capital madrileña, de...
The aim of this article is to show how the composite and international domains and fiefs of early mo...
L’établissement de la Cour à Madrid en 1561 et l’obtention de son nouveau statut de capitale des Esp...
Castilian towns and villages had a long development process in medieval times. Then, they were forme...
The research is focused on the architecture of the nobility, specifically the higher ranks of court ...
Una de las mayores contradicciones que se percibe en la evolución de la Monarquíahispana es la defin...
The accession of the House of Bourbon to the Spanish throne after the death of the last Habsburg kin...
By the early seventeenth century, petitioners at the royal court in Madrid who claimed descent from ...
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries tens of thousands of Castilians initiated lawsuits at...
After the comunero revolution of 1520-1521, Charles I (1516-1555) defended Castilian constitutional ...
The jurisdictional activity of the King of Castile originally took place in the intimacy and privacy...
Las estrategias de integración que utilizaron los monarcas castellanos de la primera mitad del siglo...
During the reign of Archdukes Albrecht and Isabella the old ducal palace at the Coudenberg in Brusse...
En el siguiente artículo se presentarán experiencias de vidas «privadas» de algunos nobles cortesano...