His first visit was to his mother, Joan of Castile, who was living in an Eastern palace at Tordesillas. This is the world which the exhibition seeks to recreate in the second room.
At the same time it also speaks of the spiritual crisis of the fifteenth century, which had such a tremendous influence on thought and art: the experience of the "night of the world", the plague, the acute sense of guilt, and the birth of the devotio moderna in contrast to the abstract world of scholasticism.
We also want to testify to the versatile, surprising and extremely modern person that was Erasmus. His far-reaching influence on certain classes of Spanish society reached Castile through the Burgundian court of Emperor Charles.
Here we must also mention the musicians who journeyed back and forth between Castilla y Le≤n and Flanders. The fruits of their inspiration are preserved in our cathedral archives. When will their scores see the light of day again, and when will their music be recreated?
