From Muslim to Christian Granada - Inventing a City''s Past in Early Modern Spain

Informationen zum Autor A. Katie Harris is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis. Klappentext Honorable Mention, 2010 Best First Book, Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented the evangelization of Granada in the first century A.D. by St. Cecilio, the city's first bishop. Granadinos greeted these curious documents, known as the plomos , and the human remains accompanying them as proof that their city--best known as the last outpost of Spanish Islam--was in truth Iberia's most ancient Christian settlement. Critics, however, pointed to the documents' questionable doctrinal content and historical anachronisms. In 1682, the pope condemned the plomos as forgeries. From Muslim to Christian Granada explores how the people of Granada created a new civic identity around these famous forgeries. Through an analysis of the sermons, ceremonies, histories, maps, and devotions that developed around the plomos , it examines the symbolic and mythological aspects of a new historical terrain upon which Granadinos located themselves and their city. Discussing the ways in which one local community's collective identity was constructed and maintained, this work complements ongoing scholarship concerning the development of communal identities in modern Europe. Through its focus on the intersections of local religion and local identity, it offers new perspectives on the impact and implementation of Counter-Reformation Catholicism. Zusammenfassung Through its focus on the intersections of local religion and local identity! it offers new perspectives on the impact and implementation of Counter-Reformation Catholicism. ...

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A. Katie Harris is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A Katie Harris, A. Katie Harris, A. Katie (Assistant Professor Harris, Harris A. Katie
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.05.2007
• EAN: 9780801885235
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8523-5
• Seiten: 280
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi; The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Mittelalter; RELIGION / General, European History, Spain, Religion & beliefs, CE period up to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Religion and beliefs, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Spain