Antonio Urquízar-Herrera
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198797456
- eISBN:
- 9780191838811
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198797456.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Historiography
Chapter 2 explores the relationship between destruction and memory within the historical discourses on the Islamic conquest and the Christian recovery of Spain, which eventually resulted in the ...
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Chapter 2 explores the relationship between destruction and memory within the historical discourses on the Islamic conquest and the Christian recovery of Spain, which eventually resulted in the thirteenth-century demolition of Toledo Mosque. In the first place, medieval narratives on the Loss of Spain are studied in order to analyze the early modern echoes of its commentaries about the Islamic destruction of Christian Spain, and particularly those about the demolition of churches. In addition, the early modern reuse of that narrative is connected to the Humanist concern about the relationship between architectonic destruction and memory. Finally, the example of the medieval story on the conversion and later destruction of Toledo Mosque is studied as a precedent to subsequent narrations.Less
Chapter 2 explores the relationship between destruction and memory within the historical discourses on the Islamic conquest and the Christian recovery of Spain, which eventually resulted in the thirteenth-century demolition of Toledo Mosque. In the first place, medieval narratives on the Loss of Spain are studied in order to analyze the early modern echoes of its commentaries about the Islamic destruction of Christian Spain, and particularly those about the demolition of churches. In addition, the early modern reuse of that narrative is connected to the Humanist concern about the relationship between architectonic destruction and memory. Finally, the example of the medieval story on the conversion and later destruction of Toledo Mosque is studied as a precedent to subsequent narrations.
Antonio Urquízar-Herrera
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198797456
- eISBN:
- 9780191838811
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198797456.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Historiography
Chapter 1 explores the discourse underlying the medieval interpretation of Islamic monumental architecture. The interaction between the idea of buildings as trophies and the tension surrounding their ...
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Chapter 1 explores the discourse underlying the medieval interpretation of Islamic monumental architecture. The interaction between the idea of buildings as trophies and the tension surrounding their potential destruction, conservation, and transformation offers a convenient framework for subsequent analysis of the strategies behind the appropriation of the surviving edifices. The chapter sets out the general background by way of a review of the writings of Ambrosio de Morales in relation to the Christian architectonic transformation of Córdoba Mosque. Then, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his medieval idea of restoration as applied to the Christian conquest of Islamic Spain, as well as its consequences in the Humanist interpretation of Islamic buildings, are explained.Less
Chapter 1 explores the discourse underlying the medieval interpretation of Islamic monumental architecture. The interaction between the idea of buildings as trophies and the tension surrounding their potential destruction, conservation, and transformation offers a convenient framework for subsequent analysis of the strategies behind the appropriation of the surviving edifices. The chapter sets out the general background by way of a review of the writings of Ambrosio de Morales in relation to the Christian architectonic transformation of Córdoba Mosque. Then, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his medieval idea of restoration as applied to the Christian conquest of Islamic Spain, as well as its consequences in the Humanist interpretation of Islamic buildings, are explained.
