By land and sea. Travelers luggage as a projection of domestic needs.

Abstract

This article presents the first attempt a holistic reconstruction of what comprised a traveller’s luggage in Spain  in Spain during the Modern Era based on archival sources and literary, iconographic evidence as well as the existing bibliography that is scattered through different specialized fields, such as furniture studies or decorative arts. At the same time, it offers an historical glossary of the correspondending  terminology proper to this area of material culture that reflects not only the accepted concept of travelling but also of the domestic space than can be considered to replicate it and of wich it was an extension. Particular attention is given to the nautic objects which accompany sea travel.