This conference, Romanesque: Patrons and Processes, was concerned with patronage and agency – in their broadest senses during the Romanesque period. Thus, in addition to more traditional prosopographical approaches, and examinations of individual patrons, there were papers on various forms of institutional patronage. The conference also addressed the processes involved in commissioning buildings or works of art the mechanics of design authorship – intermediaries and agents and the extent to which patrons are designers. Are there limits to patronal influence?
Speakers included: Claude Andrault-Schmitt, Maria Bonet, Eduardo Carrero, Manuel Castieiras, Hugh Doherty, Eric Fernie, Alexandra Gajewski and Stephanie Seeberg, Ludovico Geymonat, Richard Gem, Dorothy Glass, Colum Hourihane, Armen Kazaryan, Wilfried Keil, Bruno Klein, Esther Lozano, Nathalie Le Luel, Javier Martnez de Aguirre, Geraldine Mallet, Robert Maxwell, John McNeill, Christopher Norton, Anna Orriols, Carlo Quintavalle, Jens Reffer, Carles Snchez, Marta Serrano, Neil Stratford and Rose Walker
Attendees could also stay on for two days of visits to medieval sites around Barcelona (10-11 April, 2014). These included Sant Pere de Rodes; Girona Cathedral and San Pere Galligants; Tarragona Cathedral and Santa Maria del Miracle; and Santes Creus.
Following earlier conferences on Romanesque and the Past (London, 2010), and Romanesque and the Mediterranean (Palermo, 2012), the British Archaeological Association worked with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Research project Magistri Cataloniae to stage the third in a biennial series of international conferences concerned with Romanesque art and architecture.
The British Archaeological Association would like to thank the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya for their collaboration.