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From Muslim to Christian Granada

Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain
  • ISBN-13: 9780801885235
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By A. Katie Harris
  • Price: AUD $128.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2007
  • Format: Hardback 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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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.Reviews''As a local intellectual and cultural history—indeed, as a book that breaks new ground by demonstrating more than any before it the richness and broader significance of 'local histories' in early modern Spain—the book is a thrilling success.''—David Coleman, Eastern Kentucky University, author of Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old World Frontier City, 1492–1600

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologue: Old Bones for a New City1. Granada in the Sixteenth Century2. Controversy and Propaganda3. Forging History: Granadino Historiography and the Sacromonte4. Civic Ritual and Civic Identity5. The Plomos and the Sacromonte in Granadino PietyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

""Fascinating study.""

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