The eve of Spain : myths of origins in the history of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish conflict

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    • Grieve, Patricia E.

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The eve of Spain : myths of origins in the history of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish conflict

Patricia E. Grieve

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-301) and index

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内容説明

The Eve of Spain demonstrates how the telling and retelling of one of Spain's founding myths played a central role in the formation of that country's national identity. King Roderigo, the last Visigoth king of Spain, rapes (or possibly seduces) La Cava, the daughter of his friend and counselor, Count Julian. In revenge, the count travels to North Africa and conspires with its Berber rulers to send an invading army into Spain. So begins the Muslim conquest and the end of Visigothic rule. A few years later, in Northern Spain, Pelayo initiates a Christian resistance and starts a new line of kings to which the present-day Spanish monarchy traces its roots. Patricia E. Grieve follows the evolution of this story from the Middle Ages into the modern era, as shifts in religious tolerance and cultural acceptance influenced its retelling. She explains how increasing anti-Semitism came to be woven into the tale during the Christian conquest of the peninsula-in the form of traitorous Jewish conspirators. In the sixteenth century, the tale was linked to the looming threat of the Ottoman Turks. The story continued to resonate through the Enlightenment and into modern historiography, revealing the complex interactions of racial and religious conflict and evolving ideas of women's sexuality. In following the story of La Cava, Rodrigo, and Pelayo, Grieve explains how foundational myths and popular legends articulate struggles for national identity. She explores how myths are developed around few historical facts, how they come to be written into history, and how they are exploited politically, as in the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 followed by that of the Moriscos in 1609. Finally, Grieve focuses on the misogynistic elements of the story and asks why the fall of Spain is figured as a cautionary tale about a woman's sexuality.

目次

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Act One: Fall and Redemption (711-1492) 1. Setting the Stage Of Women, Kings, and Nation Origins of a National Myth 2. Granada Is the Bride Using History to Shape a National Past La Cava and the King . . . and Pelayo and His Sister "She Came to Him in His Prison Cell" The Jewess of Toledo and Rising Anti-Semitism 3. Blood Will Out The Return of the Goths Corral Casts Spain's Founding Myth Training Isabel, the Princess of Asturias Isabel, the Warrior Queen Bad Women and Good in the Late Fifteenth Century The Inquisition and the Holy Child of La Guardia The Fallen and the Promise Act Two: Promise and Fulfillment (1492-1700) Interlude 4. Desiring the Nation The Influence of Pedro de Corral's Chronicle of King Rodrigo in the Sixteenth Century The Woman's Body and the Fate of the Nation The Loss of Spain in the Oral Ballad Tradition Philip II's Chronicler, Ambrosio de Morales, and the Development of the Heroic Pelayo Philip II and the Power of Prophecy 5. Here Was Troy, Farewell Spain! A Tale of Tales Miguel de Luna and Spain's Prophetic History Father Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Nationalism Spain's Second Helen Lope de Vega and the Stage of King and Nation The Legend of the Fall of Spain after the Expulsion Either Rise or Fall Act Three: Imagining Spain (The Enlightenment to the Present) 6. Ancestral Ghosts and New Beginnings The Challenge of Foundational Myths in the Age of Enlightenment Fallen Women Take the Stage Orientalism, Romanticism, and Visigothic Spain The Search for Spanish National Identity in Medieval Spain Pelayo, the Role of Women, and Contemporary Spain The Founding Myth and the New Millennium Epilogue: Cultural Dialogues Notes Bibliography Index

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