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Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. STUDIES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES General Editor Tom Pickles, University of Chester Editorial Board Charles West, University of Sheffield Caroline Goodson, Birkbeck, University of London Gabor Thomas,University of Reading Catherine Clarke, University of Southampton Tom O’Donnell, Fordham University Previously published volumes© BREPOLS in this seriesPUBLISHERS are listed at the back of the book. THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. Volume 42 Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe Integrating Archaeological and Historical Approaches Edited by José C. Sánchez-Pardo and Michael G. Shapland © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. © 2015, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,© BREPOLS photocopying, PUBLISHERS recording, or otherwise, THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. IT MAYwithout NOT BE DISTRIBUTED the prior WITHOUT permission PERMISSION of the OF publisher. THE PUBLISHER. D/2015/0095/209 ISBN: 978-2-503-54555-4 e-ISBN: 978-2-503-54740-4 Printed on acid-free paper Contents List of Illustrations ix Introduction: Churches and Social Power in Early Medi eval Europe J OSÉ C. SÁncheZ-PARDO and Michael G. SHAPLAND 1 Part I. Churches as Channels for Power Relations Founding and Owning Churches in Early Medi eval Álava (North Spain): The Creation, Transmission, and Monumentalization of Memory J UAN ANTONIO QuirÓS and Igor SANTOS 35 Local Churches and Lordship in Late Antique and Early Medi eval Northern Italy ALEXandra ChavarrÍA 69 Local Churches and Social Power in Early Medi eval Ireland: A Case Study of the Kingdom of Fir Maige TMCO ÁS Ó arragÁin 99 © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. Churches and SocialIT MAY Elites NOT BE DISTRIBUTEDin Early MediWITHOUT eval PERMISSION Tuscany: OF THE PUBLISHER. A Quantitative-Statistical Approach to the Episcopal Archive of Lucca R FOBERTO ARINELLI 157 vi Contents Part II. Churches and the Transition of Power Patronage in Transition: Lordship, Churches, and Funerary Monuments in Anglo-Norman England A LEKSANDRA McClain 185 Power Strategies in the Early Medi eval Churches of Galicia (AD 711–910) J OSÉ Carlos SÁncheZ-PARDO 227 Heidenheim and Samos: Monastic Remembrance of the ‘Anglo-Saxon Mission’ in Southern Germany and the ‘Mozarabic Resettlement’ of Northern Spain Compared Christofer ZwanZig 269 Churches and Lordship in Western Normandy, AD 800–1200 D AVID PETTS 297 Part III. Churches in Landscapes of Power Early Medi eval Religion and Social Power: A Comparative Study of Rural Elites and Church Building in Northern France and Southern Scandinavia ANNE Nissen 331 The Church and the Land: Settlement, Economy, and Power in Early Medi eval England D UNCAN W. WRIGHT 367 Powers, Territories, and Architecture in North-West Portugal: An Approach to the Christian Landscapes of Braga between the Fifth and Eleventh Centuries © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS L UÍS FONTESTHIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. 387 IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. Local Churches, Settlements, and Social Power in Late Antique and Early Medi eval Gaul: New Avenues in the Light of Recent Archaeological Research in South-East France Christine Delaplace 419 Contents vii Part IV. Churches as Centres of Power Architecture and Power at the End of the Lombard Kingdom G IAN PIETRO BROGIOLO 451 On the Origins of the Great Carolingian Place of Power: Recent Excavations at Aachen Cathedral A NDREAS SCHAUB and TANJA KOHLBERGER-SCHAUB 473 Palaces, Churches, and the Practice of Anglo-Saxon Kingship MS ichael HAPLAND 495 The Development of the Church in Ice land in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, with Reference to the Reykholt Church GS UÐRÚN VEINBJARNARDÓTTIR 523 Index of People, Places, and Subjects 541 © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. Architecture and Power at the End of the Lombard Kingdom Gian Pietro Brogiolo Introduction The fifty years between 725 and 774 were a critical period for Italy, charac- terized by a series of key events within a more general international political context, which in the Italian peninsula led to confrontation, resolution, and a new equilibrium. In Italy the principal protagonists were the Pope, newly delivered from the Byzantine sphere of influence as a consequence of the crisis 1 of iconoclasm, and the Lombard kings, starting with Liutprand, who were unwilling to confront the Pope and to realize the prospect of the reunifica- 2 tion of Italy. The outcome was fatal for the Lombards, because of the alliance between the Pope and the Frankish kings, first Pippin, later Charlemagne; however, it gave rise to new perspectives on the whole of Europe, with the for- mation of the Carolingian Empire. In a tense European framework of political and military rivalry and conflict, those in power made the utmost use of all the tools of propaganda available to achieve consensus. The papacy resorted to the spiritual power of religion, to relics, tangible vehicles of exchange, which the popes, Stephan II and Paul I in particular, systematically collected from the suburban cemeteries of Rome, taking them back to town or gifting© BREPOLS them PUBLISHERS to their peers in the contemporary THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. networks of power.IT MAY The NOT BE LombardDISTRIBUTED WITHOUTkings, PERMISSIONon their OF side, THE PUBLISHER. turned all expressions 1 Noble, The Republic of St. Peter. 2 Delogu, ‘Il regno longobardo’. Gian Pietro Brogiolo ([email protected]) Uni ver sity of Padova Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe: Integrating Archaeological and His torical Approaches, ed. by José C. Sánchez-Pardo and Michael G. Shapland, SEM 42 pp. 451–472 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015) BREPOLS PUBLISHERS 10.1484/M.SEM-EB.5.108517 452 Gian Pietro Brogiolo of their power to good account: literary works, such as Laudes Mediolanensis civitatis of 739;3 the short laudatory compositions of Paul the Deacon carved as epigraphic texts and displayed on buildings, like San Salvatore in Brescia and the palace chapel of Arechis II at Salerno; and saints’ lives commissioned and composed in connection with the evergetism associated with the acquisition of particular relics. However, by far the most meaningful expression of power is to be found in architecture,4 the topic I am going to address in the following text. In northern Italy, in the theatre of the political and military confrontation which led to the victory of Charlemagne, three churches, Santa Maria in Valle at Cividale, San Salvatore at Brescia, and Santa Maria foris portas at Castelseprio, survive above ground, with substantial elements of their rich programmes of figural imagery and ornament still preserved (Map 14.1). Even though these buildings have been at the centre of historiographical debate for half a century, there is still no scholarly consensus as to their dating, whether eighth-century Lombard or ninth-century Carolingian. For Santa Maria in Valle at Cividale and San Salvatore in Brescia, there is general agreement that, despite differ- ences in their design, they share similar building and decoration techniques and 5 therefore were probably both the work of the same craftsmen. This theory has been confirmed by recent stratigraphic analysis. The dating of these monu- ments, with their original architectonic structure and decorative programmes of stuccoes and paintings in large part preserved, wavers between 750–60, on the one hand, and the middle decades of the ninth century, on the other. The 6 third building, Santa Maria at Castelseprio, differs radically from foris portas these in construction and decoration. In this case, dates ranging from the sixth to the mid-ninth (tenth?) century have been proposed by archaeologists and 14 art historians, although scientific old and new dating-indices ( C and ther- 7 moluminescence ) place its foundation in the middle of the sixth or, more 3 Pighi, Versus de Verona. 4 Mitchell, ‘Artistic Patronage and Cultural Strategies in Lombard Italy’; Bertelli and Brogiolo, Il futuro dei Longobardi. 5 L’Orange and Torp, Il Tempietto Longobardo di Cividale; Panazza, ‘L’arte dal secolo © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS vii al sec. xi’. THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. 6 Bognetti, Chierici,IT MAY NOT and BE DISTRIBUTEDDe Capitano WITHOUT d’Arzago, PERMISSION Santa OF THE Maria PUBLISHER. di Castelseprio . On the excavations in the early 1980s, see Brogiolo and Carver, ‘Castelseprio (Va). 4.a campagna di scavo’; Carver, ‘S. Maria foris portas at Castelseprio’. 7 Leveto-Jabr, ‘Carbon-14 Dating of Wood from the East Apse of Santa Maria at Castel Seprio’, pp. 17–18; Martini, Sibilia, and Spinolo, ‘Santa Maria Foris Portas’, pp. 215–17; Brogiolo, ‘Per una storia religiosa di Castelseprio’. Architecture and Power at the End of the Lombard Kingdom 453 Map 14.1. Map of Lombardy, showing the main places mentioned in the text. Map by José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo using Demis WMS World Map. probably, in the early Carolingian period, while the famous frescos are possibly from the middle of the tenth century, a dating that put the church outside the context discussed in this paper.
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