Toledo Cathedral
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Toledo Cathedral

Building Histories in Medieval Castile

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eBook - PDF

Toledo Cathedral

Building Histories in Medieval Castile

About this book

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral's art and architecture.

Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late fourteenth centuries, he examines over two hundred years of change and consolidation, tracing the growth of the cathedral in the city as well as the evolution of sacred places within the cathedral itself. He goes on to consider this substantial monument in terms of its location in Toledo, Spain's most cosmopolitan city in the medieval period. Nickson also addresses the importance and symbolic significance of Toledo's cathedral to the city and the art and architecture of the medieval Iberian Peninsula, showing how it fits in with broader narratives of change in the arts, culture, and ideology of the late medieval period in Spain and in Mediterranean Europe as a whole.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Note on the Text
  9. Introduction
  10. Notes to Introduction
  11. PART I: On the Edge, at the Center
  12. Chapter 1: The City
  13. Notes to Chapter 1
  14. PART II: Building Histories
  15. Chapter 2: Design
  16. Notes to Chapter 2
  17. Chapter 3: Rodrigo's Project
  18. Chapter 4: Between Córdoba and Paris
  19. Notes to Chapter 4
  20. Chapter 5: The Exemplary Form
  21. Notes to Chapter 5
  22. Part III: The Living Church
  23. Chapter 6: The Cathedral of Memory
  24. Notes to Chapter 6
  25. Chapter 7: Cults
  26. Notes to Chapter 7
  27. Chapter 8: Urbs Regia
  28. Notes to Chapter 8
  29. Chapter 9: Cathedral and City
  30. Notes to Chapter 9
  31. Chapter 10: Art and Belief
  32. Epilogue: Toledo and Beyond
  33. Notes to Epilogue
  34. Glossary
  35. Appendix 1
  36. Appendix 2
  37. Notes to Appendix 2
  38. Notes
  39. Bibliography
  40. Index
  41. COVER Back