Juan de Caramuel y su “Declaración mystica de las armas de España” (Bruselas, 1636)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2007.v80.i320.86Keywords:
Monarchy, Power, Heraldry, Emblem studies, War, SpainAbstract
In 1636, coinciding with a decisive moment in the Thirty Year’s War, Juan de Caramuel y Lobkowitz published in Brussels the Declaración Mystica de las Armas de España, invictamente belicosas (Mystical Declaration of the Arms of Spain, invincibly warlike), dedicated to the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria. This publication was in fact a symbolic and mystical eulogium of the arms of the Hispanic Monarchy, through the explanation of each of the coats of arms pertaining to the kingdoms constituting the monarchy. These discourses provide emblematic content for the heraldry of kingdoms, and constitute the models for many subsequent series of festive hieroglyphs, which were to represent political territories or geographical allegories by means of symbolically explained coats of arms.
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