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- Title
ARQUITECTURA DEL PODER Y EL PODER DE LA ARQUITECTURA. LAS "PETRIFICACIONES" DE LAS ARQUITECTURAS EN ÁLAVA Y TREVIÑO ENTRE LOS SIGLOS IX-XIII.
- Authors
Quirós Castillo, Juan Antonio
- Abstract
In this paper, we analyse the process of "petrification" of medieval religious architecture in territorial contexts that do not have urban centres, or centres of power of a certain size, where a range of competing agents interacted with each other. In particular, we look at a sector of the Ebro river valley (Alava and Treviño), located on the margins of the state powers that dominated northern Iberia in the early medieval period. Adopting a long-term perspective, technological aspects, the social groups involved, and the meanings of the local churches built in the 9th and 13th centuries are considered. Three main periods are identified, characterised by the "petrification" of power, the "petrification" of wealth, and the "petrification" of collective identities in the context of the emergence of new local and regional powers, with the rule of the bishops coming to the fore, and the redefinition of local communities in terms of parishes. It is concluded that there is no simple and direct correlation between resources, technology, and social obligations to monumentalise churches, as the phenomenon of the "petrification" of churches is a fairly complex one, in geographical and chronological terms.
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; RELIGIOUS architecture; MEDIEVAL architecture; SOCIAL groups; MIDDLE Ages; GROUP identity
- Publication
Archeologia dell'Architettura, 2021, Vol 26, p159
- ISSN
1126-6236
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36153/aa26.2021.10