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Admiration and Awe - Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography (Hardcover)
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Admiration and Awe - Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography (Hardcover)
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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 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.
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