The Habsburg’s kings in Spain and the ceremonies around the king’s death, rites and symbols
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https://doi.org/10.5944/eeii.vol.3.n.4.2016.18384Keywords:
ceremonies, rites, symbols, exequies, funeralsAbstract
Abstract The ceremonies around the death of a Habsburg king in Spain, where the vehicle to a symbolic language, full of representations and emblems, used to remind to his loyal subjects not only the power of the dead king and the one his heir and successor was going to hold, but also the relationship between the dynasty and the Roman Catholic Church. With the Habsburg’s, the illness, death and exequies of the monarch were converted into a sumptuous show that needed: a set, actors, lavish costumes, script and audience –the loyal subjects- to which audience participation, whether it be active or passive, was essential to fulfill its objective: to be persuaded of the king’s power.Downloads
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2016-05-31
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Gómez Requejo, M. (2016). The Habsburg’s kings in Spain and the ceremonies around the king’s death, rites and symbols. INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES JOURNAL, 3(4), 251–266. https://doi.org/10.5944/eeii.vol.3.n.4.2016.18384
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