RT Book,_Section
T1 Royal travels : The modern staging and legitimation of the Spanish monarchy, 1858–1931
A1 Barral Martínez, Margarita
K1 Spanish monarchies
K1 Isabel II
K1 Alfonso XIII
K1 Librelism in Spain
AB Spain's contemporary kings transformed the Crown decidedly for the purposes of nationalization, in order to adapt the institution to liberal reality and mass society. The aim was to offer a more popular and modern image of monarchy, using means of propaganda like royal trips and visits. This essay analyses the symbiosis between monarchy and nation through the celebrations and ceremonies that accompanied royal visits from Isabel II to Alfonso XIII. Focusing on monarchs' public dimension, the chapter studies the traditional link between Crown, Church and army on the one hand, and a European-style monarchism on the other that presented the monarchy as a benefactor of the people. The monarchs' discourses in their visits to regions, provinces and cities, however, reinforced a unitary identity, conservative and Castilian, without considering emerging sub-state identities. The monarchy became a symbolic reference for the nation but, by not making tradition and modernity cohere, it did not become a truly popular institution.
PB Routledge
SN 9780367810375
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44076
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44076
LA eng
NO Barral-Martínez, Margarita (2021). "Royal travels The modern staging and legitimation of the Spanish monarchy, 1858–19311", Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain: The Building of the Nation-State, 1780–1931: David San Narciso, Margarita Barral-Martínez and Carolina Armenteros, eds. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021. 202-220 pp.
DS Minerva
RD 2 may 2026