Holy donors, mighty queens: imaging women in the Spanish cathedral cartularies of the long twelfth century
Shannon L. Wearing
ABSTRACTIlluminated cartularies constitute a fascinating yet neglected area of art-historical scholarship. The surviving examples from Spain are especially remarkable for the conspicuous presence women in their illustrative programmes. This article focuses on representations royal and noble three illuminated produced by cathedrals kingdom Leon – Liber testamentorum Oviedo, Tumbo A Santiago de Compostela Libro las Estampas Leon. Each served to construct mythologised history largesse wake jurisdictional disputes between Iberian sees, each incorporates into that manner is pointedly distinct men. considers ideological function these manuscripts, which depict as possessors terrestrial well spiritual authority.
Journal of Medieval History