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The Royal Chapel in Iberia

Models, Contacts, and Influences

History Department, Towson University, Towson, Maryland. E-mail: rcostagomes{at}towson.edu

This article analyses the main aspects of the activities of the late medieval royal chapel, comparing several Iberian Christian monarchies. Three definitions of the chapel were proposed since medieval times: the chapel as a collection of liturgical objects, as the human group devoted to the king's service by performing the Christian cult, and as a specific space inside royal residences. All three were put to use for the reproduction of the specific position of kings in Christian societies, as it was expressed in liturgical activities and in devotional practices. Common patterns and mutual influences are analysed, and the example of two ceremonial practices shows that these were more current than it has been argued by historians of the early modern period.

The Medieval History Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, 77-111 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/097194580901200104


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