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Admiration and Awe

By Antonio Urquizar-Herrera

Admiration and Awe

By Antonio Urquizar-Herrera

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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 ofarchitectural hybridization. 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 aCatholic 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 thearrival 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2017-07-11
Publication Date:
2017-07-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198797451
ISBN13:
9780198797456
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
602 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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