Through the combination of two vast databases on archaeological and textual evidence on early medieval funerary and ecclesiastical sites in Galicia, this paper aims to explore the socio-political landscape dynamics around local powers conformed by small proprietary churches or monasteries with privileged anthropomorphic burials and, related with them, the first parish cemeteries. This new approach shed light on a huge group of local elites that from the 9th to the 11th centuries AD founded and controlled churches in which they would be buried in. This important amount of sarcophagus and rock-cut burials are often the only remain that we have from these social groups, while most of the early medieval written sources refer to the wider regional aristocracies that absorbed the former. The use of both databases allows us to understand the ways, pacific or problematic, of integration of these centres of local power into the aristocratic circle that supported the political structure of the Astur-Leonese kingdom, and ultimately, the creation of a series of relationships that define the early medieval political landscapes in the north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula.
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0003-2899-4951
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Chapter Title
Sepulcros, iglesias y construcción de paisajes políticos en la Galicia de los siglos IX-XI
Authors
José Carlos Sánchez Pardo, Laura Blanco Torrejón, Marcos Fernández Ferreiro
Language
Spanish
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0530-6.10
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe
Editors
Iñaki Martín Viso
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Number of Pages
340
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0530-6
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0529-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0530-6
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0532-0
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079