Producciones constructivas y decorativas. Indicadores cronológico- culturales de la alta Edad Media hispánica

Abstract

The architectonic production of five remarkable buildings from our early Middle Ages is analysed through their characteristics, the relationships between bricklaying and mason workshops (straight and square masonty work, quarry opening or reused masonry), and carving workshop (ex novo or reused; external or temporary workshops; close to or on the building workshops). These production relationships vary from cases that are apparently unconnected, in which the construction holds ornaments that were not made keeping the building in mind, to others in which both productions are increasingly integrated. Two decorative sets provide remarkable data on these relationships, becoming original elements that can be indicative of main cultural and chronological differences, representative of the early Middle Ages. The first one corresponds to the worship furniture (partitions and altars). The second one is the architectural imposts and friezes, which are supposedly characteristic of the architecture after the year 711, linked or not with preserved buildings and those present in the workshops of Mérida and Toledo.