Nasrid weapons

Schedule: every Saturday in December at 12.00 p.m.
Place: Hall VII, Museum of the Alhambra, Palace of Charles V
The Nasrid weapons are the only Spanish-Moorish production that has conserved a sufficient number of samples  –most of them of palace origin, by their wealth – to try to know about their weapons. All of them are kept nowadays in diverse particular collections and museums, like this of the Alhambra. The study of this panoply is complemented with the data selected from written sources (testaments, historical chronicles or inventories of properties) and, specially, with graphical representations, like those that appear in the Christian codices or in the paintings of the House of the Partal and the Hall of the Kings in the Alhambra.
According to all those data, we can know that in the Nasrid sultanate of Granada offensive weapons consisted of swords, daggers, spears, arcs and the crossbows with its arrows; whereas the defensive weapons were shields and helmets. A Fernández-Puertas describes the wealth of the materials and the sophisticated techniques used in their elaboration and the distinction of the weapons as objects of prestige and power of their owners  – in the case of the Nasrid sovereign- in the history of the military campaigns of Boabdil against Lucena in 1483, for whose occasion he dressed as “a sultan” and carried his jineta sword and the ceremony sword of the armory of the Nasrid house, and a wonderful dagger with case.