Monarquía y sociedad. Fiesta política y sociabilidad en Vitoria en la Edad Moderna

REGUERA ACEDO, José Ignacio

Publication year:

2003

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

Festivities were used to increase the power of the State and to increase monarchic authority. All State events - military victories or treaties of peace - and the events related to royal family - births, marriages, deaths - were the object of propaganda and public celebrations in all the towns in the kingdom. Urban spaces were the stage employed to transmit official ideology - defence of absolutism and of the values of the Ancient Regime - to the popular masses by means of shows of power. What happened in the town of Vitoria during the Modern Age is but another example thereof.