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The Medieval Countryside, vol. 28
Stone Building as Material and Metaphor in Southern Europe (1050–1300)
Therese Martin (ed)
- Pages: approx. 375 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:75 b/w, 50 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2026
- € 100,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-60546-3
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- Forthcoming (Jan/26)
- ISBN: 978-2-503-60547-0
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The four-volume sub-series ‘Petrifying Wealth’ explores wealth, collective identity, and medieval building by examining the sudden growth in masonry building in the central Middle Ages as an investment in social identity.
This volume offers multiple perspectives on the study of the 'petrification of wealth' during the central Middle Ages across the lands of Spain, Italy, and France, investigating stone monuments, architectural imagery, written accounts, and inscriptions.
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BIO
Therese Martin is a Senior Researcher in Medieval Art History and Head of the Medieval Studies Department, Institute of History, CSIC, Madrid. Her books include Queen as King: Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain (2006); Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture (2012);‘Me fecit.’ Making Medieval Art (History), special issue, Journal of Medieval History (2016); and The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange, Expanded Edition (2020).
Summary
The four-volume sub-series ‘Petrifying Wealth’ explores the sudden ubiquity of masonry construction between 1050 and 1300 in Southern Europe and its profound effect on the European landscape. New questions about wealth, society, and medieval building are explored, which highlight the link between construction in durable materials and the shaping of individual, collective, and territorial identities: the birth of a new, long-lasting panorama, epitomising the way we see the space and territory of Europe today.
Volume 4 investigates the ‘petrification of wealth’ during the central Middle Ages across the lands of present-day Spain, Italy, and France from perspectives of art history, visual and material culture, and history. Through both focused case studies and broad-ranging comparative surveys, the book explores innovative approaches to existing works in stone as well as architectural imagery. Some of the foundational ideas on which this volume builds are individual and collective investment in significant stone undertakings; memory and identity within networks of patronage, gender, and power; implications of spaces and topographies — real or imagined — for works in stone; impacts of violence on construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction; and representations of stone monuments through other forms of cultural manifestations, whether visual, material, or textual.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Turn to Stone in the Central Middle Ages
THERESE MARTIN
Writing the Memory of Church Reform in Stone: Inscriptions and Consecrations in Northwestern Iberia (Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries)
ANA RODRÍGUEZ and ALEJANDRO PIÑEL BORDALLO
Petrification and Power in Northern Italian Cities: Palaces, Bishops, and Communes, 1000-1350
MAUREEN C. MILLER
Petrified Power: An Initial Report on the Use of Hard-Stone Spolia in Norman Sicily (Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries)
ELISE MORERO, RUGGERO LONGO, ROSA BACILE, HARA PROCIPIOU, ROBERTO VARGIOLU, HASSAN ZAHOUANI, and JEREMY JOHNS
‘Posuit primum lapidem in fundamento’: Project, Design, and Preparatory Works for Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Cathedrals
CARLES SÁNCHEZ
Identity through Death: What Arcosolia in Zamora Reveal about Medieval Society
TERESA MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Choice and Reuse: Materials of Ávila’s Monumental Landscape (Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries)
HANNAH MARYAN THOMSON
Plausible Patronage: Petrifying the Female Patrons Whose Memory Was Worth Perpetuating
VERÓNICA ABENZA
Monumentalized Authority: Town Depiction on Wax Seals in the Kingdom of Italy and Southern France (Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries)
CLÉMENT BLANC-RIEHL and AMBRE VILAIN
Behind the Stones: The Phenomenon of Wealth Petrification through the History of Medieval Art
ANTONIO LEDESMA
Index of People
Index of Places
Index of Subjects
