Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198797451 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Signos de distincion social enla Andalucia del Renacimiento (2007). He has been principle investigator of a number of different research groups and research projects on Early Modern Art in Spain.. He has also published more than thirty book chapters and articles in International and Spanish peer review journals. He has published several monographs about Early Modern Art in
On the one hand, the monuments' Islamic origin was subjected to historical revisions and re-identified as Roman or Phoenician. To date this process of Christian appropriation has generally been discussed as a phenomenon of architectural hybridization. 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.. However, this was a period in which the construction of a Spanish national identity became a key focus of historical discourse. 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. 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. 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. 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
About the AuthorAntonio Urquizar-Herrera is Associate Professor at the History of Art Department of the UNED, Madrid, as well as Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has been principle investigator of a number of different research groups and research projects on Early Modern Art in Spain.. Signos de distincion social enla Andalucia del Renacimiento (2007). He has published several monographs about Early Modern Art in Spain, among them Coleccionismo y nobleza. He has also published