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Apologia and Criticism
This book is the first modern overview of the history of historiography in Spain. It covers sources from Juan de Mariana's History of Spain, written at the end of the sixteenth century, up to current historical writings and their context. The main objective of the book is to shed light on the continuities and breaks in the ways that Spanish historians represented ideas of Spain. The concept of historiography used is wide enough to span not only academic works and institutions but also public uses of history, including the history taught in schools. The methodology employed by the author combines the tradition of studies of national identity with those of historiography. One of the key themes in the book is the role of the historical profession in Spain and its influence on national discourse from the nineteenth century onwards.
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Forging the Past
Examines how four volumes of invented "truths" about Sp[anish sacred histiory radically transformed the religious landscape in Counter-Reformation Spain. Explores the history, author, and legacy of the Cronicones, alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 and not definitively exposed as forgeries until centuries later.
Un discours national?
Les historiens européens du XIXe siècle ont présidé à un renouvellement en profondeur de l'historiographie. Sans rejeter l'érudition d'origine ecclésiastique et embrassant le projet d'histoire de la civilisation esquissé par les Lumières, ils ont créé une pratique historique où les « récits nationaux » permettaient de légitimer les constructions politiques libérales issues du démantèlement de l'Ancien Régime. L'Espagne a participé à ce mouvement : scènes et récits du passé envahissent alors l'imaginaire collectif, fondant une véritable « culture de l'histoire ». Le gouvernement de Madrid encourage le développement de la recherche en créant des institutions spéc...
Audiences of Empire
LOPE DE VEGA (1562-1635), poet/playwright of unrivaled popularity during Spains Golden Age of literature (including Miguel de Cervantes and Caldern de la Barca), rescued theater from ineffective conventions and claimed authorship of some 1800 titles. Many of the almost 500 existing plays are stagings of pivotal events and protagonists from national history. Lope entertains his eager public with colorful stories of the passions, heroism and villainy of the high and mighty blending these with the virtues and vices of ordinary folk and stock characters. In the twilight of the once great empire, now powerless and bankrupt, Lope draws his audience into a reimagined past that is confirmed and rede...
