‎Gerardo Boto Varela, Marta Serrano Coll (eds)‎
‎Weaving Memories in Medieval Cathedrals Artistic Narratives in Global History‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2026 Hardback,Pages: 317 p.Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 126 col., 2 tables b/w. Language(s):English. ISBN 9782503617695.‎

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‎Summary This volume examines a network of medieval European cathedrals, from the North Sea to Andalusia, to reveal the specific ways in which institutional and civic memories were interwoven in each of these ecclesiastical sees. These pages analyze the plurality of the European landscape through eleven cathedrals, created between the fourth and fifteenth centuries across the European geographical and cultural breadth. The architectural features of each cathedral are the result of a complex process of morphogenesis that is constantly defined by the local conditions of space, building material, etc. For these reasons, each author reveals in the respective case study how the ritual spaces and the cultic and commemorative devices that legitimized their relationship with the past, the particular devotions, the diachronic and synchronic crossroads and their relationships with the secular and religious elites were generated, modified and organized. Crucial to this integrative process was the movement of patrons and master builders, as well as their ability to adopt new approaches and integrate them into established patterns. The cathedrals studied in this volume were highly innovative centers that exported successful models. In some cases, their proposals were formulated on the substratum of Roman antiquity, often reinterpreted. Furthermore, special attention is given to the memorial competencies of devices and liturgical furnishings, that constituted a large part of the visual and mnemonic experience inside their ceremonial spaces. Through the study of the selected cathedrals it is revealed that each and every one of them sought to affirm two complementary realities: what role each one aspired to play in the history of Universal Salvation and, at the same time, how to articulate the spaces of the monument to give place and temporality to the memory itself, extolling the most relevant powerful personalities in the framework of the lay community. Thus, the volume offers a panoramic view of the specificities, but also of the analogies generated by artistic intersections and homologous statements. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Negotiating Institutional Pasts in European Cathedrals Gerardo Boto Varela and Marta Serrano Coll Medieval Cathedrals As Reliquaries Of Memorial Narratives I Imperial Patronage and Shaped Memories The Cathedral of Rome in Context: Sacred Spaces, Rituals, and Patrons (Fifth?Fourteenth Centuries) Manuela Gianandrea and Eleonora Tosti Cathedral Saint Mauritius and Saint Katharina, Magdeburg Matthias Untermann II International Architectures for Secular and Ecclesiastical Hegemonies 1099?1106: The Foundation of Modena Cathedral as a Mirror of the Transition Between Seigneurial Power and Civic Self-Consciousness Saverio Lomartire Poitiers, the Cathedral Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Claude Andrault-Schmitt The Dispute over the Tradition of an Episcopal Church and the Art of the Naumburg Master Holger Kunde The Cathedral of Saint Vitus, Wenceslas, Adalbert, and the Virgin Mary in Prague in the Romanesque Period Jana Ma? kov -Kubkov Notre-Dame de Lausanne: Socio-Spatial Organisation at the Origins of the Cathedral (Thirteenth?Sixteenth Centuries) K rim Berclaz III Hosting and Proclaiming Cults ?North to Saint Olav??A Saint and his Cathedral on the Edge of the Christian World ystein Ekroll Canterbury Cathedral and its Holy Archbishops: Weaving Memories Between Continuity and Innovation Ute Engel IV Negotiating the Past in Palimpsestic Cities on the Edges of Latinity The Hard Task of Surrogating Jerusalem: Famagusta Cathedral in Medieval Experience and Modern Scholarship Michele Bacci The (In)visible Cathedral: The Major Church of Santa Mar a in Seville from 1248 to 1411 Teresa Laguna Pa l Index of Names Index of Places‎