El caballero de las espuelas doradas. Análisis arqueológico de un enterramiento nobiliario medieval del monasterio de Corias

Abstract

In this paper we analyze some iron spurs gold recovered in the burial of a knight of the thirteenth century in the monastery of Corias (Asturias, Spain) First, it exposes a stratigraphic context assessment and a description of the spurs; in a second part establishes the chronology of the spurs from comparative analysis with other examples recovered in the different kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula; and finally performs a socioeconomic and political contextualization of the order of knights in Asturias in the thirteenth century.