El Monasterio Románico: de lo artístico a lo funcional, 2024
It is well known that monastic communities had as their stereotypical modus vivendi the Vita Apos... more It is well known that monastic communities had as their stereotypical modus vivendi the Vita Apostolica: the abbot and the community were constituted and projected as a transcript of Christ and his apostles. of Christ and his apostles. In other words, they were connected with the primordial Christian model of humility and detachment. humility and detachment. In the sphere of the construction of identity with a symmetrical In the sphere of the construction of identity with a symmetrical will with respect to the archetype, the role of the physical envelopes was not small: from the intimate and individual, the habit as a garment of rejection of the material world, to the enveloping spaces, that is, the monastic architectures they inhabited: the church and the different and the various outbuildings. Because the rooms, especially the most hierarchically prominent ones, defined, articulated and and justified the modus vivendi of the monastic communities. the modus vivendi of the monastic communities. And for this reason they constituted an effective mnemonic role for the successive generations of monks who, since the generations of monks who, from the novitiate, developed their life itinerary in the cloister. enclosure. In other words, while the monastic regulations were the cornerstones of the monastic exercise as cornerstones of the monastic exercise, the monastic topography, through its respective and traveled in procession or individually, guided their specific praxis. praxis.
The cult of Mary Magdalene came relatively late to northwestern Iberia, after having been dispers... more The cult of Mary Magdalene came relatively late to northwestern Iberia, after having been dispersed through the rest of continental Europe in the early Middle Ages. The earliest evidence for the cult comes from the kingdoms of León, Castile, and Galicia in the second half of the eleventh century, during the reign of Alfonso VI (r. 1065/72–1109). His promotion of the Gregorian reform opened up Iberia to the rest of the Continent. The arrival of a more complex liturgical sensibility led to the restructuring of pre-Romanesque architectural spaces through the use of iconography and powerful visual dialectics unprecedented in local culture. This article considers the staging of the figure of Mary Magdalene in León-Castile-Galicia in some of the most important architectural landmarks that have survived to this day, from Santiago de Compostela to Silos.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ges/current
Una vez reunificados los reinos de León, Galicia y Castilla, durante el último tercio del siglo X... more Una vez reunificados los reinos de León, Galicia y Castilla, durante el último tercio del siglo XI el eje territorial comprendido entre los Pirineos y la vertiente atlántica experimentó profundos cambios en todos los órdenes. Dentro de un contexto de reforma gregoriana la autoridad ejercida por el rey Alfonso VI fue fundamental para que importantes cambios se impusieran. Por su parte, tanto obispos como abades establecieron reformas internas entre las cuales el cambio de rito litúrgico fue la de mayor importancia y dificultad. En riguroso paralelo y de modo más o menos simultáneo las estructuras arquitectónicas autóctonas comenzaron a ser sustituidas por otras más espaciosas y complejas. Sin embargo, se produjeron excepciones. A la luz de ese contexto, en este trabajo se analizarán las que probablemente fueron más poderosas instituciones de fines del siglo XI:
Between 1110 and 1127, the kingdom of León-Castile found itself in an extended conflicto with the... more Between 1110 and 1127, the kingdom of León-Castile found itself in an extended conflicto with the neighboring kingdom of Aragón, which gave rise to outbreak in te former of a series of political, social, and religious tensions that had been growing since the previous century. This disorder responded to the profound changes carried out within each of those spheres during the reign of Alfonso VI (1065/72-1109). After a particulary aggresive phase by both Aragonese tropos and townspeople of several imortant cities, efforts toward peace intensified. At that same time, we can perceive an increasing desire to shift attention toward the Islamic power in al-Andalus. This article proposes an interpretation of the iconographic contents of two emblematic buildings, San Martin de Frómista and San Isidore de León, as the sacralization of the pairing of the pairing of peace/war that took place around the time each church was constructed.
Cahiers de linguistique hispanique médiévale, 2006
... de modo más genérico a partir de otras instituciones monásticas, ver José Luis SENRA GABRIEL ... more ... de modo más genérico a partir de otras instituciones monásticas, ver José Luis SENRA GABRIEL Y GALÁN ... la aparición de Fernán González en la batalla de las Navas de Tolosa (1212) (G ... la santidad de sus mártires causa para la que el dominico Alfonso Chacón escribió De ...
John Williams, Los Beatos ilustrados en la España medieval (F. Regueras Grande, ed.), Benavente: Centro de Estudios Benaventanos 'Ledo del Pozo', pp. 23-27, 2020
In the present article, we undertake the first in-depth analysis and contextualization of the fun... more In the present article, we undertake the first in-depth analysis and contextualization of the funerary inscription from the tomb lid of Countess Teresa de Carrión (d. 1093), designed by the monks at the Cluniac priory of San Zoilo in Carrión de los Condes (Palencia). Focusing on the figure of a carismatic woman from the central Middle Ages, we investigate the context of the elite kin network in Castilla-León to which she pertained, as well as the deliberate construction of her memory in later centuries. The memorial discourse was created through a complex web of documentation, both visual and written, which developed in differing patterns for a range of purposes. Their ultimate common goal was to establish an attractive-and lucrative-history of the countess as monastic patron during a time when the institution was falling into progressive decadence. In unexpected results, the material evidence of the inscription opens a new window onto a little-studied moment in the history of the monastery through the deliberate elevation of a past female patron. ARTICLE HISTORY La trayectoria de Teresa Peláez, o de modo más genérico también conocida como Teresa de Carrión, es muy ilustrativa respecto a la mecánica y las estrategias de acción implementadas desde los modelos femeninos de poder en la plena Edad Media y más allá. 1 Su pertenencia a la familia real, resaltada de manera poco común por cronistas medievales, su vínculo matrimonial con una de las estirpes castellanas más poderosas del momento y el carisma que se desprende de su actividad una vez que enviuda, constituyen elementos fundamentales para ilustrar el activo papel de estas mujeres. Mujeres que, como de sobra es conocido, son nin-guneadas en demasiadas ocasiones por la historiografía tradicional, aunque reivindicadas con firmeza y efectividad en las últimas décadas. Su actividad en pro de la cohesión de linajes con su consiguiente perpetuación en la memoria colectiva del tejido social fue, en ocasiones, de una elevada importancia. Asociados a instituciones de poder, de modo inevitable y con picos sujetos a la variabilidad de las coyunturas socio-económicas, estos perfiles carismáticos fueron rentabilizados por la posteridad a partir de reelaboraciones haciendo uso de diversos procedimientos. Tal es el caso de la condesa Teresa de Carrión.
In: En busca del saber: arte y ciencia en el Mediterráneo medieval (A. Uscatescu / Irene González Hernando, eds.), Madrid: Ediciones Complutenses, 2018 pp. 333-366 - ISBN: 978-84-669-3580-7, 2018
New approach to the Romanesque paintings of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza (León-Castilla)... more New approach to the Romanesque paintings of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza (León-Castilla). The room and the paintings on the chapter house are analyzed with the hypothesis of having been an abbatial camera built around 1220.
The cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is one of the most significant buildings ever constructed... more The cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is one of the most significant buildings ever constructed in the Romanesque style. From a tortuous beginning, an analysis of the structure allows us to verify its striking advancements through a series of increasingly experimental architectonic solutions over the course of just three decades. The sophistication and subtlety of the east end around the year 1100 finds few parallels in architecture of its day throughout the European continent. From an iconographic point of view, the first phase of construction centers on the axial chapel of San Salvador with a didactic lesson based on overcoming the physical self. Man transfigured, as modeled by Christ, is presented as the archetype to the then-reigning monarch, Alfonso VI, and by extension to all of his subjects.
El Monasterio Románico: de lo artístico a lo funcional, 2024
It is well known that monastic communities had as their stereotypical modus vivendi the Vita Apos... more It is well known that monastic communities had as their stereotypical modus vivendi the Vita Apostolica: the abbot and the community were constituted and projected as a transcript of Christ and his apostles. of Christ and his apostles. In other words, they were connected with the primordial Christian model of humility and detachment. humility and detachment. In the sphere of the construction of identity with a symmetrical In the sphere of the construction of identity with a symmetrical will with respect to the archetype, the role of the physical envelopes was not small: from the intimate and individual, the habit as a garment of rejection of the material world, to the enveloping spaces, that is, the monastic architectures they inhabited: the church and the different and the various outbuildings. Because the rooms, especially the most hierarchically prominent ones, defined, articulated and and justified the modus vivendi of the monastic communities. the modus vivendi of the monastic communities. And for this reason they constituted an effective mnemonic role for the successive generations of monks who, since the generations of monks who, from the novitiate, developed their life itinerary in the cloister. enclosure. In other words, while the monastic regulations were the cornerstones of the monastic exercise as cornerstones of the monastic exercise, the monastic topography, through its respective and traveled in procession or individually, guided their specific praxis. praxis.
The cult of Mary Magdalene came relatively late to northwestern Iberia, after having been dispers... more The cult of Mary Magdalene came relatively late to northwestern Iberia, after having been dispersed through the rest of continental Europe in the early Middle Ages. The earliest evidence for the cult comes from the kingdoms of León, Castile, and Galicia in the second half of the eleventh century, during the reign of Alfonso VI (r. 1065/72–1109). His promotion of the Gregorian reform opened up Iberia to the rest of the Continent. The arrival of a more complex liturgical sensibility led to the restructuring of pre-Romanesque architectural spaces through the use of iconography and powerful visual dialectics unprecedented in local culture. This article considers the staging of the figure of Mary Magdalene in León-Castile-Galicia in some of the most important architectural landmarks that have survived to this day, from Santiago de Compostela to Silos.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ges/current
Una vez reunificados los reinos de León, Galicia y Castilla, durante el último tercio del siglo X... more Una vez reunificados los reinos de León, Galicia y Castilla, durante el último tercio del siglo XI el eje territorial comprendido entre los Pirineos y la vertiente atlántica experimentó profundos cambios en todos los órdenes. Dentro de un contexto de reforma gregoriana la autoridad ejercida por el rey Alfonso VI fue fundamental para que importantes cambios se impusieran. Por su parte, tanto obispos como abades establecieron reformas internas entre las cuales el cambio de rito litúrgico fue la de mayor importancia y dificultad. En riguroso paralelo y de modo más o menos simultáneo las estructuras arquitectónicas autóctonas comenzaron a ser sustituidas por otras más espaciosas y complejas. Sin embargo, se produjeron excepciones. A la luz de ese contexto, en este trabajo se analizarán las que probablemente fueron más poderosas instituciones de fines del siglo XI:
Between 1110 and 1127, the kingdom of León-Castile found itself in an extended conflicto with the... more Between 1110 and 1127, the kingdom of León-Castile found itself in an extended conflicto with the neighboring kingdom of Aragón, which gave rise to outbreak in te former of a series of political, social, and religious tensions that had been growing since the previous century. This disorder responded to the profound changes carried out within each of those spheres during the reign of Alfonso VI (1065/72-1109). After a particulary aggresive phase by both Aragonese tropos and townspeople of several imortant cities, efforts toward peace intensified. At that same time, we can perceive an increasing desire to shift attention toward the Islamic power in al-Andalus. This article proposes an interpretation of the iconographic contents of two emblematic buildings, San Martin de Frómista and San Isidore de León, as the sacralization of the pairing of the pairing of peace/war that took place around the time each church was constructed.
Cahiers de linguistique hispanique médiévale, 2006
... de modo más genérico a partir de otras instituciones monásticas, ver José Luis SENRA GABRIEL ... more ... de modo más genérico a partir de otras instituciones monásticas, ver José Luis SENRA GABRIEL Y GALÁN ... la aparición de Fernán González en la batalla de las Navas de Tolosa (1212) (G ... la santidad de sus mártires causa para la que el dominico Alfonso Chacón escribió De ...
John Williams, Los Beatos ilustrados en la España medieval (F. Regueras Grande, ed.), Benavente: Centro de Estudios Benaventanos 'Ledo del Pozo', pp. 23-27, 2020
In the present article, we undertake the first in-depth analysis and contextualization of the fun... more In the present article, we undertake the first in-depth analysis and contextualization of the funerary inscription from the tomb lid of Countess Teresa de Carrión (d. 1093), designed by the monks at the Cluniac priory of San Zoilo in Carrión de los Condes (Palencia). Focusing on the figure of a carismatic woman from the central Middle Ages, we investigate the context of the elite kin network in Castilla-León to which she pertained, as well as the deliberate construction of her memory in later centuries. The memorial discourse was created through a complex web of documentation, both visual and written, which developed in differing patterns for a range of purposes. Their ultimate common goal was to establish an attractive-and lucrative-history of the countess as monastic patron during a time when the institution was falling into progressive decadence. In unexpected results, the material evidence of the inscription opens a new window onto a little-studied moment in the history of the monastery through the deliberate elevation of a past female patron. ARTICLE HISTORY La trayectoria de Teresa Peláez, o de modo más genérico también conocida como Teresa de Carrión, es muy ilustrativa respecto a la mecánica y las estrategias de acción implementadas desde los modelos femeninos de poder en la plena Edad Media y más allá. 1 Su pertenencia a la familia real, resaltada de manera poco común por cronistas medievales, su vínculo matrimonial con una de las estirpes castellanas más poderosas del momento y el carisma que se desprende de su actividad una vez que enviuda, constituyen elementos fundamentales para ilustrar el activo papel de estas mujeres. Mujeres que, como de sobra es conocido, son nin-guneadas en demasiadas ocasiones por la historiografía tradicional, aunque reivindicadas con firmeza y efectividad en las últimas décadas. Su actividad en pro de la cohesión de linajes con su consiguiente perpetuación en la memoria colectiva del tejido social fue, en ocasiones, de una elevada importancia. Asociados a instituciones de poder, de modo inevitable y con picos sujetos a la variabilidad de las coyunturas socio-económicas, estos perfiles carismáticos fueron rentabilizados por la posteridad a partir de reelaboraciones haciendo uso de diversos procedimientos. Tal es el caso de la condesa Teresa de Carrión.
In: En busca del saber: arte y ciencia en el Mediterráneo medieval (A. Uscatescu / Irene González Hernando, eds.), Madrid: Ediciones Complutenses, 2018 pp. 333-366 - ISBN: 978-84-669-3580-7, 2018
New approach to the Romanesque paintings of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza (León-Castilla)... more New approach to the Romanesque paintings of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza (León-Castilla). The room and the paintings on the chapter house are analyzed with the hypothesis of having been an abbatial camera built around 1220.
The cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is one of the most significant buildings ever constructed... more The cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is one of the most significant buildings ever constructed in the Romanesque style. From a tortuous beginning, an analysis of the structure allows us to verify its striking advancements through a series of increasingly experimental architectonic solutions over the course of just three decades. The sophistication and subtlety of the east end around the year 1100 finds few parallels in architecture of its day throughout the European continent. From an iconographic point of view, the first phase of construction centers on the axial chapel of San Salvador with a didactic lesson based on overcoming the physical self. Man transfigured, as modeled by Christ, is presented as the archetype to the then-reigning monarch, Alfonso VI, and by extension to all of his subjects.
Between 1110 and 1127, the kingdom of León-Castile found itself an extended conflicto with the ne... more Between 1110 and 1127, the kingdom of León-Castile found itself an extended conflicto with the neighboring kingdom of Aragon, which gave rise to the outbreak in the former of a series of political, social, and religious tensions that had been growing since the previous century. This disorder responded to the profound changes carried out within each of those spheres during the reign of Alfonso VI (1065/72-1109). After a particulary aggressive phase by both Aragonese tropos and the townspeople of several important cities, efforts toward peace intensified. At that same time, we can perceive an increasing desire to shift attention toward the Islamic power in al-Andalus. This article proposes an interpretation of the iconographic contents of two emblematic buildings, San Martín de Frómista and San Isidoro de León, as the sacralization of the pairing of peace/war that took place around the time each church was constructed.
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Quintana place-names as evidence of the Islamic conquest of Iberia by David Peterson
Territories and kingdom in the central Duero basin: the case of Dueñas (tenth–twelfth centuries) by Daniel Justo Sánchez & Iñaki Martín Viso
“Neither age nor sex sparing”: the Alvor massacre 1189, an anomaly in the Portuguese Reconquista? by Jonathan Wilson
Riots, reluctance, and reformers: the church in the Kingdom of Castile and the IV Lateran Council by Kyle C. Lincoln
Squire to the Moor King: Christian administrators for Muslim magnates in late medieval Murcia by Anthony Minnema
Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula by David J. Govantes-Edwards , Javier López Rider & Chloë Duckworth
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of Christ and his apostles. In other words, they were connected with the primordial Christian model of humility and detachment. humility and detachment. In the sphere of the construction of identity with a symmetrical In the sphere of the construction of identity with a symmetrical will with respect to the archetype, the role of the physical envelopes was not small: from the intimate and individual, the habit as a garment of rejection of the material world, to the enveloping spaces, that is, the monastic architectures they inhabited: the church and the different and the various outbuildings. Because the rooms, especially the most hierarchically prominent ones, defined, articulated and and justified the modus vivendi of the monastic communities. the modus vivendi of the monastic communities. And for this reason they constituted an effective mnemonic role for the successive generations of monks who, since the generations of monks who, from the novitiate, developed their life itinerary in the cloister. enclosure. In other words, while the monastic regulations were the cornerstones of the monastic exercise as cornerstones of the monastic exercise, the monastic topography, through its respective and traveled in procession or individually, guided their specific praxis.
praxis.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ges/current
of Christ and his apostles. In other words, they were connected with the primordial Christian model of humility and detachment. humility and detachment. In the sphere of the construction of identity with a symmetrical In the sphere of the construction of identity with a symmetrical will with respect to the archetype, the role of the physical envelopes was not small: from the intimate and individual, the habit as a garment of rejection of the material world, to the enveloping spaces, that is, the monastic architectures they inhabited: the church and the different and the various outbuildings. Because the rooms, especially the most hierarchically prominent ones, defined, articulated and and justified the modus vivendi of the monastic communities. the modus vivendi of the monastic communities. And for this reason they constituted an effective mnemonic role for the successive generations of monks who, since the generations of monks who, from the novitiate, developed their life itinerary in the cloister. enclosure. In other words, while the monastic regulations were the cornerstones of the monastic exercise as cornerstones of the monastic exercise, the monastic topography, through its respective and traveled in procession or individually, guided their specific praxis.
praxis.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ges/current
Rethinking the minimi of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands in late antiquity by Ruth Pliego
Quintana place-names as evidence of the Islamic conquest of Iberia by David Peterson
Territories and kingdom in the central Duero basin: the case of Dueñas (tenth–twelfth centuries) by Daniel Justo Sánchez & Iñaki Martín Viso
“Neither age nor sex sparing”: the Alvor massacre 1189, an anomaly in the Portuguese Reconquista? by Jonathan Wilson
Riots, reluctance, and reformers: the church in the Kingdom of Castile and the IV Lateran Council by Kyle C. Lincoln
Squire to the Moor King: Christian administrators for Muslim magnates in late medieval Murcia by Anthony Minnema
Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula by David J. Govantes-Edwards , Javier López Rider & Chloë Duckworth