La representación de las naciones en las Entradas triunfales de Felipe II y Felipe III en Lisboa, (1581 - 1619)

<p>This essay examines the way foreign communities of merchants as well as Castile and Portugal through their local guilds and religious and lay authorities articulated their presence in two royal visits to the city of Lisbon. The way these communities projected their image to the Habsburg rulers was of utmost importance in the nuanced political situation of the Iberian Union and the role that Lisbon, as the capital city, and Portugal aimed to play within the Iberian global system.</p>