The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle Ages

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Autor(a) principal: Simões, Catarina Anselmo Santana
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/33848
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spelling The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle AgesExoticcourtly cultureanimalsmaterial culturemarvellousHistorySFRH/BD/84622/2012 UID/HIS/04666/2013This paper aims at presenting the work in progress of our PhD thesis, entitled Images of Power. The “exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Renaissance. It is generally accepted by the historiography that the Portuguese court seems to have been characterized by less complex and sophisticated forms of representation when compared to the French, Italian or Burgundian courts, which were undeniably more formal and refined. Our dissertation intends to evaluate the accuracy of this perspective. For this, we will focus on the importance of the “exotic” in ceremonial and politically relevant moments for the Portuguese monarchy. We will start by analysing the presence of African and Asian animals, products and objects in gift-giving practices and in political and ceremonial rituals –such as weddings, parades and banquets– of the Portuguese Monarchy in the 15th and 16th centuries. The figures of Henry the Navigator and Kings John II and Manuel I will be particularly emphasized as figures of transition, who used these “exotic” elements as an intrinsically medieval form of symbolic representation. The famous embassy sent by Manuel I to the Pope Leo X in 1514, which included the Indian elephant Hanno, is the most ostentatious and significant episode, but other examples will be addressed. It is important to mention that this subject will be studied in close comparison to a broader European cultural context. However, instead of adopting the 17th century Kunstkammern of the Habsburgs as a term of comparison, we will look at previous practices of gift-giving and consumption, since we can identify a use of non-European animals as living heraldry and signs of power, ever since the Arab Abbassid Caliph Harun al-Rashid sent and elephant to Charlemagne. The main purpose of this paper is, thus, to underline the presence of “exotic” elements in the Portuguese court in the 15th and 16th centuries as part of a medieval cultural phenomenon, as opposed to an exclusively early modern tendency.CHAM - Centro de HumanidadesRUNSimões, Catarina Anselmo Santana2018-04-04T22:17:03Z20142014-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article9application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/33848eng0214-6452PURE: 3790385https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ANHA.2014.48291info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:18:34Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/33848Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:30:05.222798Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle Ages
spellingShingle The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle Ages
Simões, Catarina Anselmo Santana
Exotic
courtly culture
animals
material culture
marvellous
History
title_short The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle Ages
title_full The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle Ages
title_fullStr The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle Ages
title_full_unstemmed The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle Ages
title_sort The Symbolic Importance of the “Exotic” in the Portuguese Court in the Late Middle Ages
author Simões, Catarina Anselmo Santana
author_facet Simões, Catarina Anselmo Santana
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Simões, Catarina Anselmo Santana
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Exotic
courtly culture
animals
material culture
marvellous
History
topic Exotic
courtly culture
animals
material culture
marvellous
History
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