Estrategias territoriales de un poder monástico en la Galicia medieval: Celanova (siglos X-XII)

Abstract

In this paper we will try to study a traditional topic in Spanish medieval historiography, as monastic domains are, from the less-known perspective of spatial strategies, facilitated by the Geographic Information Systems recent expansion. In this way, through the case of the Galician Monastery of Celanova between 10th and 12th Centuries, we can see the complexity existing behind the location planning of such a power center and the variety and flexibility of tactics used in its growing process. All this not only emphasizes the well-known high degree of spatial knowledge of the aristocratic powers between Early and Central Middle Ages, but also reveals the importance that those groups gave to the territorial strategies related to the previous settlement structure and the role that these strategies played in the Northwest of Iberian Peninsula feudalization process.