Admiration and Awe
Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 May 2017
- ISBN 9780198797456
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 240x172x24 mm
- Weight 584 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book explores the appropriation of Islamic architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, illuminating its relationship to the development of Spanish national identity.
MoreLong description:
This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To date this process of Christian appropriation has generally been discussed as a phenomenon of architectural hybridisation. However, this was a period in which the construction of a Spanish national identity became a key focus of historical discourse. As a result, cultural hybridity encountered partial opposition from those seeking to establish cultural and religious homogeneity.
Spain's Islamic past became a major concern in this period and historical writing served as the site for a complex negotiation of identity. Historians and antiquarians used a range of strategies to re-appropriate the meaning of medieval Islamic heritage as befitted the new identity of Spain as a Catholic monarchy and empire. On the one hand, the monuments' Islamic origin was subjected to historical revisions and re-identified as Roman or Phoenician. On the other hand, religious forgeries were invented that staked claims for buildings and cities having been founded by Christians prior to the arrival of the Muslims in Spain. Islamic stones were used as core evidence in debates that shaped the early development of archaeology, and they also became the centre of a historical controversy about the origin of Spain as a nation as well as its ecclesiastical history.
informatively very rich and from a research point of view an innovative book ... the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Islamic urbanism and architecture in the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Modern Period by Spanish historians.
Table of Contents:
Preface: The Islamic Stones of Spain, Today
Introduction
PART I
Conquest and Plunder
The Notion of the Loss of Spain
Islamic Monuments as Christian Trophies
PART II
Historical Dislocation and Antiquarian Appropriation
The Foundations of an Antiquarian Literature for Islamic Architecture
The Antiquarian Appropriation of Islamic Monuments
PART III
The Religious Use of the Antiquarian Model
Genealogical Forgery and Continuity of Christian Worship
Calling on the Martyrs: The Final Atonement of Islamic Architecture
PART IV
Charting the Impact of Historiographical Texts?
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