Arte, guerra y fiesta en la Baja Edad Media: aproximación a la relación entre la poliorcética y el fasto caballeresco

Abstract

In the late Middle Ages, chivalry fully assumed the political-military role which it had gradually attained as supreme civil class. The ludic imagery of this institution was incorporated into its representative iconographic repertoire and chivalric pageantry, considered as an artistic production, became par excellence the means of aesthetic expression of late Gothic festivals. This paper presents an interdisciplinary episode dealing with both chivalry's warlike and pre-courtly means and culture of war through the artistically purposed reuse of materials, structures and military strategies provided by graphic and written sources.