Fiestas de toros en el Valladolid del siglo XVIIUn teatro del honor para las élites del poder urbanas

Zusammenfassung

Bullfighting festivals were the main source of entertainment during the period of early modern history in Spain. In this analysis of bulfights in Baroque Valladolid I have focused on one particular aspect, namely how they served as an arena for the representation of power, since the emotional virtues of the festival became a valuable instrument it for the persuasive domination. More than the trone and the altar they were the urban elites, all of whom were represented in the bullfights of the main square, who were the true beneficiaries of these spectacles in a city with too many illustrious institutions. I have mainly focused on the change brought about in the spectacle by the presence of such a powerful institution as the Chancellery. This High Court of Justice was to become the focus of these bullfighting spectacles, exercising its superiority over civil authority, the City Hall, in the organisation and development of the event. Thus, leisure and power combined once again in festive and hierarchical societies in the ancien regime.