Forging the Past : Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain /

Spain's infamous "false chronicles" were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olds, Katrina Beth, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Temas:
1500-1599
History > Errors, inventions, etc.
Histoire > Erreurs, inventions, etc.
HISTORY > Europe > Spain & Portugal.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Historiography
Spain > History > 16th century > Historiography.
Espagne > Histoire > 16e siècle > Historiographie.
Spain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Translations and Orthography
  • Maps
  • An Introduction to History and Myth in Early Modern Spain
  • Part I. Creation
  • 1. The Forger between Friends and Enemies in Toledo
  • 2. The Jesuits, the Inquisition, and History
  • 3. How to Forge a History: The Authentic Sources of the False Chronicles
  • 4. Jews, Arabic-Speakers, and New Saints: The False Chronicles and Controversy
  • 5. The Debut of the Chronicles: Higuera's Republic of Sacred Letters
  • 6. In Defense of Local Saints: Higuera versus Rome
  • Part II. Reception
  • 7. Flawed Texts and the Negotiation of Authenticity
  • 8. The Cronicones in Local Religion: Historia Sacra Writ Small
  • 9. The Politics of the Cronicones in Madrid and Rome
  • 10. From Apocrypha to Forgery
  • Conclusion: New Saints, New Histories in Modern Spain
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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