Research Catalog

Title

The memory of the bishop in Medieval cathedrals : ceremonies and visualizations / Gerardo Boto, Isabel Escandell, Esther Lozano (eds).

Publication

Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

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Additional Authors

• Boto Varela, Gerardo
• Escandell, Isabel
• Lozano, Esther

Description

603 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm

Summary

From Late Antiquity to ca. 1500, the exchange of artistic expressions, literary formulas and moral ideals allowed successive bishops to generate and transform the paradigmatic buildings and devices epitomising episcopal power, both in life and posthumously by dictating the manner in which they were to be commemorated. Indispensable to this process of integration was the ability to absorb foreign artistic formulas, devise innovative creations and integrate them into mutated patterns that were always defined by local material and intellectual conditions and resources. This volume explores the making and metamorphosis of images and memories of European Medieval bishops as individual personalities or institutional figures within the framework of their respective cathedrals. The studies discuss the circumstances and factors that have determined funerary configurations and ritual remembrances of bishops in cathedrals and ecclesiastical colleges in the Medieval Latin Church. The authors of this volume adopt and implement a dual and complementary methodology. First, they take into account a wide range of factors, including specific community practices, liturgical ceremonies, church furnishings, and artistic equipment. Second, they explore to which the morphology of individual tombs can be ascribed to the preferences of patrons who, hypothetically, would also have imposed a religious protocol as the patrons of the future commemoration of their personalities. In these novel studies, special attention is paid to the symbiosis of pictorial narratives, liturgical performativity, and spatial arrangement, which made up and propitiated a large part of the visual experience of episcopal memorials. The volume focuses on the use of the memorial devices of important bishops as a privileged lens to analyse the complexity and dynamics of the artistic landscape in western Europe during the Middle Ages. --Book cover.

Subject

• Sepulchral monuments, Medieval
• Rites and ceremonies, Medieval
• Bishops > Monuments > Europe
• Cathedrals > Europe
• Monuments funéraires médiévaux
• Rites et cérémonies médiévaux
• Évêques > Monuments > Europe
• Cathédrales > Europe
• Cathedrals
• Rites and ceremonies, Medieval
• Sepulchral monuments, Medieval
• Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English, Spanish, French, and Italian.

Contents

Emerging episcopal memory. Letrán, el Vaticano y los apóstoles en la Visio Taionis / Joel Varela Rodríguez -- Shaping ceremonies and visual devices to Episcopal memories. Les évêques de Lausanne et la cathédrale Notre-Dame / Kérim Berclaz -- Medieval cathedrals and episcopal memories in Gothic Spain. The altar de Santa Elena or Capilla de Pedro de Mendoza in the Cathedarl of Toledo / Maria Dolores Teijeira Pablos.

ISBN

• 3034334508
• 9783034334501

LCCN

2019304704

OCLC

• on1114509335
• 1114509335
• SCSB-9724622

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library