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— Words, images and power: teaching Order in
the Middle Ages —
Sacralisation became an essential element for the
absolute legitimacy of feudalism, which was conceived
based on social dominance in western Europe throughout
the centuries. In that context and in view of its
illiterate people, sermons and images played a
fundamental role in explaining the nature of that
system, in addition to their indoctrinating function in
the foundations of the Christian religion. They formed
the "audiovisual language" which used ideas from the
social doctrine and political theology developed by the
Church since its origins and summarised how the Order
worked: there had to be a virtuous, hierarchical, fair,
united and pacific society, i.e. individual and social
virtues and a structure governing the society so that it
could reach its destiny of Salvation.
This research uses Max Weber's concept of historical
"formal rationality", a principle which includes,
involves and provides internal cohesion to other general
principles and here it is applied to the Augustinian
concept of "Order". It is also based on a systemic
interpretation of history, which provides an
understanding of the close links between the
ideological, cultural, social, economic and
institutional structures which make up any social
formation. This theoretical framework enables us to use
a multidisciplinary work methodology. By applying this
method, we can observe the similarity in content and
syntax between the language used in the sermons from the
11th to 15th centuries and the Romanesque and Gothic
iconography, analysed from the spectators' standpoint,
in Spain, France, England and Italy.
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Doctoral thesis
Title: La escultura románica
hispana y la lucha contra el Islam (mediados del S. XI -
mediados del S. XIII). Inés MONTEIRA ARIAS. Tesis
doctoral dirigida por Miguel Larrañaga y defendida en la
U. Carlos III de Madrid, 2010. Doctorado Europeo.
Sobresaliente cum laude por unanimidad. Premio
extraordinario de doctorado en Humanidades 2010.
Publication: MONTEIRA ARIAS, Inés (2013): El enemigo
imaginado. La escultura románica hispana y la lucha
contra el Islam, Toulouse, Université de
Toulouse-Méridiennes, 864 pp. |
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