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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Santiago de Compostela in the Time of Diego Gelmírez
Erschienen:
International Center of Medieval Art, 1997
Erschienen in:
Gesta, 36 (1997) 2, Seite 165-179
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0016-920X
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Beschreibung:
Santiago de Compostela is examined in the context of Diego Gelmírez's supra-regional and regional, ecclesiastical and seigniorial ambitions. His lavish enterprises, which catalyzed two communal rebellions, include artistic programs designed to make visible the prelate's representation of his apostolic see. Each of Gelmírez's advances toward raising his see to metropolitan rank (and expanding his lordship in western Galicia) is noted together with the architectural design and decoration of the new cathedral. Among these advances, the systematic production of the cult of St. James has been undervalued and the pilgrims attracted by the cult have been regarded as the cathedral's unique audience. When the violent attacks by burghers and canons on the cathedral and the prelate are integrated into this history, local audiences can be understood as the target of specific sets of images. These include particularly aggressive figures of the urban vices of lust and avarice, the latter conceived iconographically as a type for Judas to whom the communards are repeatedly compared in Gelmírez's chronicle, the Historia Compostellana.