From Muslim to Christian Granada

Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8523-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 125, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

Honorable Mention, 2010 Best First Book, Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented the evangelization of Granada in the first century A.D. by St. Cecilio, the city’s first bishop. Granadinos greeted these curious documents, known as the plomos, and the human remains accompanying them as proof that their city—best known as the last outpost of Spanish Islam—was in truth Iberia’s most ancient Christian settlement. Critics, however, pointed to the documents’ questionable doctrinal content and historical anachronisms. In 1682, the pope condemned the plomos as forgeries.

From Muslim to Christian Granada explores how the people of Granada created a new civic identity around these famous forgeries. Through an analysis of the sermons, ceremonies, histories, maps, and devotions that developed around the plomos, it examines the symbolic and mythological aspects of a new historical terrain upon which Granadinos located themselves and their city. Discussing the ways in which one local community’s collective identity was constructed and maintained, this work complements ongoing scholarship concerning the development of communal identities in modern Europe. Through its focus on the intersections of local religion and local identity, it offers new perspectives on the impact and implementation of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, A Katie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: Old Bones for a New City
1. Granada in the Sixteenth Century
2. Controversy and Propaganda
3. Forging History: Granadino Historiography and the Sacromonte
4. Civic Ritual and Civic Identity
5. The Plomos and the Sacromonte in Granadino Piety
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harris, A Katie
A. Katie Harris is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis.

A. Katie Harris is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis.