Mentalidad, cultura y representación del poder de la nobleza calatrava en la Castilla del siglo XV

The article tries to analyze the characteristics of the Calatravan nobility through its mentality, culture and exhibition of power. The question, that had been studied for the case of the lay nobility, did not count on an analysis from the Calatravan perspective individual. In order to obtain this objective it has been used chronicas, archive's documentation with artistics testimonies. The result of the study is that the Calatravans assumed the nobiliary mentality and the culture, performed an aristocratic leisure and unfolded a representation of the power similar to the developed one by the lay nobility