Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

A Imagem como Identidade Política: os selos régios do reino de Portugal

2024; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.24206/lh.v10i1.63287

2359-6910

Saúl António Gomes,

Historical Art and Architecture Studies

In this text, the author contextualizes the use of Portuguese royal seals in the medieval centuries, observing their aesthetic composition and the political and symbolic significance of the respective imagery, predominantly heraldic, a discourse that is only broken in the seals of some queens. Portuguese royal seals are pieces that project notions and meanings that are strongly symbolic and have a consistent abstract representation about the conception and nature of majestic power in the monarchy of medieval Portugal. The structural lines of Lusitanian royal sigilography are exposed, in which the non-existence of the seal of majesty stands out, and conjunctures or cycles of originality are defined, compared to the European royal chancelleries of those centuries, and exceptions, as is the case with the conjunctural use of the seal equestrian only between the reigns of kings Afonso III and Fernando I (1248-1383).