A Nasrid frontier fortresses and manifestations of power. The alcazaba of Moclín castle as revealed by recent archaeological research

Abstract

Scholarship on the administrative and institutional structure of Granada's Nasrid kingdom has generated a prolific bibliography, including some classic works. Most of this research is based on the written record, without the consideration of other sources of evidence. Archaeology, for example, has contrib- uted little to this process of historical reconstruction, at least until a few decades ago. Indeed, archaeological works focusing on the Nasrid period did not start to emerge until the mid-1970s.