IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 701: Funerary Art, Memory, and Contexts in Medieval Iberia: Bishops and Cathedrals
Tuesday 7 July 2026, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Project FUNART (PID 2023-150540NB-100/MCIU/AEI/FEDER UE), Universidad de León |
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| Organiser: | Jesús Rodríguez Viejo, Kunstgeschiedenis, Architectuurgeschiedenis & Landschapsgeschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jesús Rodríguez Viejo, Kunstgeschiedenis, Architectuurgeschiedenis & Landschapsgeschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Paper 701-a | Echoes in Stone: Marian Iconography and the Language of Commemoration at Salamanca's Old Cathedral (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy |
| Paper 701-b | The Cloister of Salamanca Cathedral: Intangible Activity and Sensory Perception in the Configuration of a Romanesque Funerary Space (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy |
| Paper 701-c | The Episcopal Involvement in Religious Reform through Mortuary Architecture in Late Medieval Castile, 14th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Studies on cultural memory are revolutionising scholarly debates in Premodern art history and heritage. The Middle Ages in Spain and Portugal offer countless overlooked figures, settings and sources barely studied from this point of view in these countries. Bishops were at the centre of this phenomenon. They were prolific patrons of the arts, and many cathedrals were prime settings and unparalleled repositories of both written testimony and spaces of belief and performance. The death of a famed bishop in particular became a window into a carefully conceptualised world of ritual, visual, and textual remembrance, planned often years in advance and with implications far beyond the individual in question. |