Fatan's house and what's inside it.An introduction to textile furnishings and Mudejar clothing

Abstract

The document dated 1493 from the General Archive of Simancas which includes the inventory of four houses in Baza (Granada) in just a few pages represents, in our days, valuable information in order to examine the interior of the Mudejar houses in Granada. In this work I intend to analyze both the textile furniture and the clothing of these houses, understanding it as a concept of its own that deserves to be defined and used as an instrument of analysis in this information. For this purpose, in addition to using the document in question, I will carry out an exhaustive analysis of the terms that make up both the clothing and the textile furniture and, as far as possible, I will reconstruct the domestic interior with a group of significant words that are defined and studied.  Each term is analyzed by means of contemporary lexicographic sources that, together with the academic literature, serve as support for a redefinition in which, besides specifying its meaning, origin and use, a drawing is hypothesized to serve as an illustration. The ultimate goal is to dress a Mudejar house and recreate the cultural atmosphere of its own context, showing possible differences with other Christian houses.