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From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City´s Past in Early Modern Spain
A. Katie Harris
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Hardback. 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. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 280 pages, 14, 13 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801885235
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V9780801885235
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About A. Katie Harris
A. Katie Harris is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis.
Reviews for From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City´s Past in Early Modern Spain
Convincing, stimulating, [this] will no doubt contribute to the ongoing discourse on the creation and assertion of communal identities in Iberian and Mediterranean history.
Jonathan Ray Sixteenth Century Journal 2008 Provides a lucid and accessible introduction to this broader, still largely emerging, field of Renaissance historia sacra.
Katherine Elliot Van Liere Renaissance Quarterly 2008 A valuable, early modern ... Read more
Jonathan Ray Sixteenth Century Journal 2008 Provides a lucid and accessible introduction to this broader, still largely emerging, field of Renaissance historia sacra.
Katherine Elliot Van Liere Renaissance Quarterly 2008 A valuable, early modern ... Read more