Main entry:

Urquízar Herrera, Antonio, 1973- author.

Title & Author:

Admiration and awe : Morisco buildings and identity negotiations in early modern Spanish historiography / Antonio Urquízar Herrera.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Description:

xvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-265) and index.
Introduction -- pt. 1 conquest and plunder -- The notion of the loss of Spain -- Islamic monuments as Christian trophies -- pt. 2 Historical dislocation of an antiquarian literature for Islamic architecture -- The antiquarian appropriation of Islamic monuments -- pt. 3 The religious use of the antiquarian model -- Genealogical forgery and continuity of christian worship -- Calling on the martyrs: the final atonement of Islamic architecture -- Concluding ideas -- Charting the impact of historiographical texts? -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

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. To date this process of Christian appropriation has generally been discussed as a phenomenon of architectural hybridisation. However, this was a period in which the construction of a Spanish national identity became a key focus of historical discourse. 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. 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. On the one hand, the monuments' Islamic origin was subjected to historical revisions and re-identified as Roman or Phoenician.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780198797456 (hardback)
0198797451 (hardback)

Subject:

Islamic architecture Spain Andalusia Historiography.
National characteristics, Spanish History.
Architecture islamique Espagne Andalousie Historiographie.
Espagnols Histoire.
Islamic architecture Historiography
National characteristics, Spanish
Architektur
Geschichtsschreibung
Kulturelle Identität
Morisken
Deutung
Islamische Architektur
Spain Andalusia
Spanien
Spain / Andalusia
History

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297102
Call No.: BIB 243410
Status: Available