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History and the Historians of Medieval Spain (Hardcover)
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History and the Historians of Medieval Spain (Hardcover)
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This book presents a study of medieval Spain and its historians,
from the chroniclers of the Middle Ages to the revisionists of the
post-Franco era. The history of medieval Spain has long been
perceived as a tale of original sin followed by a long-drawn-out
process of atonement. This book traces the development of that
perception. It reveals history in the making during the 800 years
between the Roman period and what is now described as the birth of
the modern state. In the differing aspirations of the inventors of
the past both then and now - from the restoration of Toledo's
Visegothic hegemony in the 1240s to the feudalization of medieval
Castile and the sacralization of its kings since the death of
Franco - an underlying sense of purpose emerges. In their contest
for control of the present through mastery of the past, and the
expression of their local loyalties, the historians of the seventh
to the 14th centuries and the authors of the False Chronilcles in
the early 1600s have their counterparts in the contemporary Spain
of the "autonomias". This book should be of interest to scholars
and students of medieval European history, historians of Spain,
historiographers and specialist
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