The ‘Petrifying Wealth’ project analyses the structural changes in Europe that led to the birth of a new architectural landscape between the 11th and 13th centuries, characterised by the widespread and rapid spread of masonry. Between 1050 and 1300 the European landscape turned to stone. It was a structural transformation that led to the birth of a new, long-lasting landscape and helped to create individual, collective and regional identities: a landscape that embodies the way we see the space and territory of Europe.
This project seeks to rewrite the social history of the central Middle Ages, emphasising the need to reassess from an untested perspective an element that has always been present in our view of the period – the sudden ubiquity of masonry construction – but has hardly been given the opportunity to provide in-depth explanations for complex social dynamics. A project that seeks to offer new explanations to previously unasked questions about wealth, construction and collective identity.

Collection: Multimedia

Project: 0. What is Europe? The European Spaces in the history of Europe.

Chronology: -

Scope: Secondary Education

Link: https://youtu.be/fvRvvO6cgwo

Resource type: Video

Format: Multimedia

Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)

Abstract: The 'Petrifying Wealth' project analyses the structural changes in Europe that led to the birth of a new architectural landscape between the 11th and 13th centuries, characterised by the widespread and rapid spread of masonry. Between 1050 and 1300 the European landscape turned to stone. It was a structural transformation that led to the birth of a new, long-lasting landscape and helped to create individual, collective and regional identities: a landscape that embodies the way we see the space and territory of Europe. This project seeks to rewrite the social history of the central Middle Ages, emphasising the need to reassess from an untested perspective an element that has always been present in our view of the period - the sudden ubiquity of masonry construction - but has hardly been given the opportunity to provide in-depth explanations for complex social dynamics. A project that seeks to offer new explanations to previously unasked questions about wealth, construction and collective identity.

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