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Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain

Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain

Olds, Katrina B.

Hardcover

General ChristianityGeneral World HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0300185227
ISBN13: 9780300185225
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Sep 8 2015
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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 Jer nimo Rom n de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inaccuracies, these four volumes of invented truths about Spanish sacred history radically transformed the religious landscape in Counter-Reformation Spain and were not definitively exposed as forgeries until centuries later, after nearly two hundred years of scholarly debate.

In this fascinating study, Katrina B. Olds explores the history, author, and legacy of one of the world's most compelling and consequential frauds. The book examines how a relatively obscure Jesuit priest so successfully fabricated a set of supposedly historical documents that they were accepted as authentic for generation after generation. The chronicles' influence was so powerful, in fact, that they continued to shape scholarly discourse, religious practice, and local heritage throughout Spain well into the twentieth century, despite having been debunked as forgeries in the eighteenth. Olds's fascinating analysis brings together intellectual, cultural, religious, and political history while reinvigorating an ongoing debate on the uses and abuses of history and the nature of historical and religious truth.

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