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Este libro pretende contribuir al esclarecimiento de propiedades materiales, disposiciones visuales y aptitudes ceremoniales de una seleccion representativa de catedrales medievales, entendidas como patrimonio vertebral de la construccion de la compleja y plural identidad europea. Los analisis contenidos en estas paginas examinan los contextos historicos y artisticos en los que surgieron diferentes catedrales. Los estudios aqui reunidos nacen de la conciencia de que algunos de nuestros monumentos catedralicios aun requieren una relectura bajo opticas diferentes y complementarias. Hemos pretendido ensanchar vias de estudio relativas a la fabricacion de los marcos arquitectonicos, pero tambien del uso ritual de las catedrales operadas entre los siglos IX y XIII. Asi, partiendo de los datos disponibles sobre la historia constructiva de cada edificio, se razonan algunas de las morfogenesis y metamorfosis que registra la misma. Para allanar ese conocimiento, se ha indagando sobre los motivos cultuales, devocionales, funcionales o de visualizacion teologica que pudieron, de un modo u otro, alterar la configuracion originaria y dirigir las actuaciones reformadoras. El resultado ha sido elocuentemente plural. This book is intended to help shed light on the material properties, visual layouts and ceremonial attributes of a representative selection of medieval cathedrals - the buildings that provide a physical foundation for the construction of the complex and plural European identity. The analyses in this collection examine the historical and artistic contexts in which different cathedrals emerged. The papers collected here were born of the realisation that some of our cathedral monuments still require further examination, under different and complementary lenses. The authors have tried to expand the channels of enquiry relating to both the architectural influences and the ritual uses of cathedrals built from the 9th to 13th centuries. They have used the data available on the construction history of each building to attempt to explain the reasons behind its morphogenesis and metamorphosis. To strengthen this knowledge, they have investigated the theological imagery and the devotional and functional motives that, taken together, altered each cathedral's original configuration. The results have been tellingly diverse.

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'The authors have contributed a huge amount of new data. This work is very valuable for the width of its scope as well as for the specific contributions in each paper. In my opinion, it will be at the same time an update and a turning point in the study of medieval cathedrals.' Dr Alejandro Garcia Aviles, Universidad de Murcia 'I consider this book a really significant contribution. The fact that the book is written in several languages contributes to its potential to reach a wide audience. It also opens new lines of research in some areas which, until now, were non-existent in Europe.' Anonymous reviewer

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri'>'The authors have contributed a huge amount of new data. This work is very valuable for the width of its scope as well as for the specific contributions in each paper.<span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri'> <span style='mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri'>In my opinion, it will be at the same time an update and a turning point in the study of medieval cathedrals.' Dr Alejandro Garcia Aviles, Universidad de Murcia <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri'>'I consider this book a really significant contribution. The fact that the book is written in several languages contributes to its potential to reach a wide audience. It also opens new lines of research in some areas which, until now, were non-existent in Europe.'<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Anonymous reviewer<span style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family: Verdana ,sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>

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Gerardo Boto Varela is professor of Medieval Art at the Universitat de Girona (Spain) and director of the TEMPLA research group. His research focuses on the dynastic pantheons, the spatial, pictorial and liturgical aspects of Spanish architecture from the 10th to the 13th centuries, and the culture of memory in the Middle Ages. Cesar Garcia De Castro Valdes is an archaeologist at the Museo Arqueologico de Asturias (Oviedo, Spain). He is a doctor of History and his research centres on Medieval architecture, sculpture, painting and precious metalwork in the western kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. He is currently studying the episcopal complex of Oviedo from its origins until the 13th century. Gerardo Boto Varela es profesor de Arte Medieval en la Universidad de Girona (Espana), director del grupo de investigacion TEMPLA. Sus investigaciones se centran en los aspectos espaciales, pictoricos y liturgicos de la arquitectura espanola de los siglos X al XIII, asi como en los panteones dinasticos y la cultura de la memoria en la Edad Media. Cesar Garcia De Castro Valdes es Arqueologo del Museo Arqueologico de Asturias (Oviedo, Espana). Doctor en Historia, su investigacion se ocupa de la arquitectura, escultura, pintura y orfebreria de la Alta Edad Media en los reinos occidentales de la Peninsula Iberica. En la actualidad estudia el grupo episcopal ovetense desde su origen hasta el siglo XIII. Contributors: Patricia Alho, Gerardo Boto Varela, Stephanie Diane Daussy, Joan Figuerola Mestre, Cesar Garcia de Castro Valdes, Joan C. Gavalda y Bordes, Andreas Hartmann-Virnich, Heike Hansen, Jose Juste Ballesta, Esther Lozano Lopez, Laila Monge Simeon, Montserrat Pages Paretas, Bruno Phalip, Nicolas Reveyron, Jordi J. Romera Cid, Claudia Ruckert, Christian Sapin, Marta Serrano Coll, Marc Sureda i Jubany, Rebecca Swanson, Carlotta Taddei, Arnaud Timbert, Marius Vendrell

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