Holy donors, mighty queens
Imaging women in the Spanish cathedral cartularies of the long twelfth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11892086 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shannon L Wearing (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-106 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Medieval History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4181 • E-ISSN: 1873-1279 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03044181.2015.1104378 |
| OpenAlex | W2225364775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Illuminated cartularies constitute a fascinating yet neglected area of art-historical scholarship. The surviving examples from Spain are especially remarkable for the conspicuous presence of women in their illustrative programmes. This article focuses on representations of royal and noble women in three illuminated cartularies produced by cathedrals in the kingdom of León – the Liber testamentorum of Oviedo, Tumbo A of Santiago de Compostela and the Libro de las Estampas of León. Each served to construct a mythologised history of royal largesse in the wake of jurisdictional disputes between Iberian sees, and each incorporates women into that history in a manner that is pointedly distinct from men. This article considers the ideological function of these manuscripts, which depict women as possessors of terrestrial as well as spiritual authority
Ancient history · Construct (python library · Ideology · Kingdom · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Classics · History · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Iberia · Medieval Iberian Studies · Medieval Literature and History · Paleontology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |