The making of a model of monarchical military leadership in Castile during Late Middle Ages and its transference to America
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This papers aims to study the features of the military command of the kings of Castile in the Late Middle Ages during the campaigns against the Muslims, starting from the reign of king Alfonso XI to the conquest of Granada. These military traits were strongly connected to the notions of the ‘restoration of Spain’ (restauratio Hispaniae; ‘Reconquista’), the Crusade and Chivalry. The Catholic Kings and the monarchs of the House of Austria took over and adapted the discourse of service to God and the Church, the King and the realm and used it as an ideological framework for the Spanish expansionist designs in Europe and in the Mediterranean, as well as in the West Indies. This paper puts forward the hypothesis that this medieval model of monarchical military command, and its ideological framework, could have been embraced by the captains during the Conquest in America.
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