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José Luis Senra
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7050-9297
No 20 (2021), Subject. By Roads, Routes and Paths. Sounds, Visions and Reviews
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/quintana.20.8070
Submitted: 29-10-2021 Accepted: 29-10-2021 Published: 31-12-2021
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Abstract

Following the reunification of the kingdoms of León, Galicia, and Castilla, during the last third of the eleventh century, profound changes occurred in all aspects across the territorial axis from the Pyrnees to the Atlantic coast. Within the context of Gregorian Reform, the authority exercised by King Alfonso VI was a crucial factor for the imposition of important changes. Likewise, both bishops and abbots undertook internal reforms, among which the change in liturgical rite was at once the most significant and the most difficult. In direct parallel and nearly simultaneously, the local architectural forms began to be replaced with other structures that were more spacious and complex. However, there were telling exceptions. It is within this context that the present study analyzes the two institutions that were probably the most powerful of all at the end of the eleventh century: the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña) and the Abbey of Saints Facundo and Primitivo de Sahagún (León).