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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.
