The castle as image. Form of representation and symbolism in a Carolingian illumination.

Garay F.J. · Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales (2023)

Resumen

Faced with little treatment of the symbolic nature of castle architecture, this paper attempts to review its presence in an image of the 9th century, which represents the eschatological city of Revelation, a book that provided the medieval imagination with the stimulus for the creation of a copious iconography. One of the first testimonies of this iconography in the field of medieval manuscript illumination is the Apocalypse of Trier; in it, the representation of the heavenly Jerusalem, studied by researchers such as Peter Klein, Bianca Kühnel, Michael Embach, Annelen Ottermann, and Richard Emmerson, shows us, through the imagery of the Carolingian illuminist, the symbolic presence of the image of the castle through a schematized representation that constitutes an iconic sign with various connotations.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas