Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe: Architecture, Ritual and Urban Context

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This volume explores the architecture and configuration of Romanesque cathedrals in Europe, especially around the Mediterranean, paying special attention to liturgical ritual, furnishings, iconography, and urban context. From the tenth to the twelfth centuries, cultural and artistic interchange around the Mediterranean gave rise to the first truly European art period in Medieval Western Europe, commonly referred to as ‘Romanesque’. A crucial aspect of this integrative process was the mobility of artists, architects and patrons, as well as the capacity to adopt new formulas and integrate them into existing patterns. Some particularly creative centers exported successful models, while others became genuine melting pots. All this took shape over the substrate of Roman Antiquity, which remained in high esteem and was frequently reused. In these studies, Romanesque cathedrals are employed as a lens with which to analyze the complexity and dynamics of the cultural landscape of southern and central Europe from the tenth to the twelfth centuries. The architecture of every cathedral is the result of a long and complicated process of morphogenesis, defined by spatial conditions and the availability of building materials. Their interior arrangements and imagery largely reflected ritual practice and the desire to express local identities. The various contributions to this volume discuss the architecture, interior, and urban setting of Romanesque cathedrals and analyze the factors which helped to shape them. In so doing, the focus is both on the influence of patrons and on more bottom-up factors, including community practices. Front Matter ("Contents"), p. i Free Access Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe: Balance and Perspectives, p. 1 Gerardo Boto Varela, Justin E. A. Kroesen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109562 I. Shaping Cathedrals in the Pre-Romanesque Era The Cathedrals of Early Medieval Italy: The Impact of the Cult of the Saints and the Liturgy on Italian Cathedrals from 300 to 1200, p. 9 Beat Brenk https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109563 French Cathedrals around the Year 1000: Forms and Functions, Antecedents, and Future, p. 29 Jean-Pierre Caillet https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109564 II. Building Romanesque Cathedrals on Older Substrates Between ‘Church Families’ and Monumental Architecture: German Eleventh-Century Cathedrals and Mediterranean Traditions, p. 47 Matthias Untermann https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109565 Aosta Cathedral from Bishop Anselm’s Project to the Romanesque Church, 998-1200, p. 71 Mauro Cortelazzo, Renato Perinetti https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109566 Inter primas Hispaniarum urbes, Tarraconensis sedis insignissima: Morphogenesis and Spatial Organization of Tarragona Cathedral (1150-1225), p. 85 Gerardo Boto Varela https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109567 III. Romanesque Cathedrals in Urban Contexts The Cathedral of Toulouse (1070-1120): An Ecclesiastical, Political, and Artistic Manifesto, p. 109 Quitterie Cazes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109568 The Renovation of Northern Italian Cathedrals during the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: The State of Current Research and Some Unanswered Questions, p. 119 Saverio Lomartire https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109569 Medieval Cathedral Architecture as an Episcopal Instrument of Ideology and Urban Policy: The Example of Venice, p. 139 Xavier Barral i Altet https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109570 The Architecture of Jaca Cathedral: The Project and its Impact, p. 153 Javier Martínez de Aguirre https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109580 The Portuguese Cathedrals and the Birth of a Kingdom: Braga, Oporto, Coimbra, and the Historical Arrival at Lisbon - Capital City and Shrine of St Vincent, p. 169 Jorge [Manuel de Oliveira] Rodrigues https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109571 IV. Liturgical Layout and Spatial Organization The Mise-en-Scène of the Holy in the Lateran Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, p. 187 Michele Bacci https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109572 Liturgical Installations in the Cathedral of Salerno: The Double Ambo in its Regional Context between Sicilian Models and Local Liturgy, p. 205 Elisabetta Scirocco https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109573 Romanesque Cathedrals in Catalonia as Liturgical Systems: A Functional and Symbolical Approach to the Cathedrals of Vic, Girona, and Tarragona (Eleventh-Fourteenth Centuries), p. 223 Marc Sureda i Jubany https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109574 V. Visual Discourses and Iconographic Programmes A New Interpretation of the Thirteenth-Century Capitals of the Ancient Cathedral of Lleida (‘Seu Vella’), p. 245 Francesc Fité i Llevot https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109575 The Iconography of the Cloister of Gerona Cathedral and the Functionalist Interpretation of Romanesque Historiated Cloisters: Possibilities and Limitations, p. 259 Peter K. Klein https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109576 The Cloistral Sculpture at La Seu d’Urgell and the Problem of its Visual Repertoire, p. 275 Marta Serrano Coll, Esther Lozano López https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109577 Romanesque Sculpture in Zamora and Salamanca and its Connections to Santiago de Compostela, p. 291 José Luis Hernando Garrido https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.5.109578 Back Matter ("List of Contributors and Editors", "Index of Monuments"), p. 305 Free Access Color Plates, p. 317 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMA-EB.4.00087