When speaking of the Treasure of León, the Treasure of the Royal Basilica of San Isidoro is implicitly understood, even though the cathedral has another treasure of great interest.
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The Federico Marés Museum has among its rich collection a work that is representative of Gothic sculpture in Toledo from the last quarter of the 14th century. This is the sepulchral monument of Don Pedro Suárez de Toledo, a member of two of the most powerful families who played an important role in the political life of the 14th and 15th centuries.
These coins were campaign coinage, possibly issued as a result of the first entry of Alfonso the Battler into Toledo as King of Castile.
The women belonging to the House of Austria played an important role in maintaining, strengthening and exalting the Habsburg family, becoming the pillars that contributed to sustaining and consolidating it as the hegemonic dynasty in 16th century Europe. They were powerful women who acted as true masters in the art of negotiation and political mediation, who knew how to move skilfully in the court environment and who used all the symbolic, propagandistic and religious elements to make the dynasty the main political reference of the time.
Throughout its history, the National Archaeological Museum has treasured Gothic funerary monuments of great artistic and documentary value of great artistic and documentary value that express, through their iconography, the values and beliefs of the late Middle Ages values and beliefs of the late medieval period. This study focuses on three of these monuments, belonging to to some highborn women who undertook great funerary projects to perpetuate their fame and that of their lineage fame and that of their lineage by displaying their power.
Lecture series “The power of the past. 150 years of Archaeology in Spain”.
5th Seminar on Medieval Archaeology, Art and History. Irradiation of power from Toledo in the Visigothic period, presenting a multidisciplinary reflection on the most significant archaeological research and excavations carried out in recent years.
Following organisational models that are well documented in Andalusian citadels, the Salobreña citadel is divided into three enclosures that had very different uses. The layout of the three gates that mark its perimeter corresponds to a very sophisticated design for the relationship and control of the surrounding territory: the port, the medina and the countryside. Inside, there is a complex system of checkpoints designed to guarantee maximum security, especially that of the enclosure at the top of the mountain, which is none other than the palatine area. In the latter we can identify the very scant remains of the main residence and a tower-qubba which, in addition to housing the throne room, served to stage Nasrid power in front of the jetty at its foot. Attached to the palace and at a lower level, we have exhumed a bath that conserved part of its original glazed floor tiles. The remains of both buildings are sufficient to affirm that their articulation and the presence of the tower-qubba correspond to the existing model in the palace of Comares in the Alhambra.
In contrast to the old paradigms that opposed a Mediterranean of cities and states to a Celtic Europe of villages and tribes, new archaeological research now depicts the end of the Second Iron Age as a complex and dynamic world, in which state structures developed and a characteristic urbanism germinated. Following the publication of the volume Oppida. Cities of Celtic Europe, published by the journal Desperta Ferro Archaeology and History, the symposium brings together a dozen researchers to analyse the keys to these phenomena in different areas of the Celtic world – demography, society, urban planning, identities and warfare – from the Iberian Peninsula to Gaul, in the period before the intervention of Rome.
The origin of the Roman tribes is a question that is still hotly debated today. In pre-Struscan monarchic times the Roman population was apparently divided into the three tribes of Tities, Ramnes and Luceres; this division, based on archaic gentile structures, was made on the basis of a rational distribution of the population with the aim of achieving a better administration of the state apparatus that would allow for greater efficiency in military recruitment.
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