TRUTH AND FAITH:THE LANGUAGES OFTHE CATHEDRAL IN THE XII TO XIII CENTURIES

Abstract

The relationship between truth and faith meant the alliance between men and God in the Middle Ages. The commitment to the divine happened in a sacred location, the church of Christianity, where the ritual of symbolic union took place. In the passage from the twelfth to the thirteenth century, with the growth of European cities, firstly appeared the Romanesque cathedrals and later, the Gothic ones. In this change, the grandiose Gothic cathedral, the bishop's church, characteristically urban and modern, becomes the synthesis space of the arts and the center of all city life, including schools and universities. Under the management of the architects, called doctors in stone, constructions proliferated and integrated the work of craftsmen of all kinds, such as sculptors, called stone cutters and stained glass artists. The dynamics of its spaces also covered religious performances, ritualistic gestures, music and sacred songs, and provided the altar as the main stage of Christian drama.