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...
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Author: Katrina B. Olds
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Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain by Olds, Katrina B.

Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain

$313.33

Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain

$313.33
Author: Katrina B. Olds
Format: Hardcover
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 The book examines how a relatively obscure Jesuit priest so successfully fabricated a set of supposedly historical documents that they were accepted as authentic for generation after generation.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.


Author: Katrina B. Olds
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 09/08/2015
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780300185225


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2016

About the Author
Katrina B. Olds is associate professor of history at the University of San Francisco. She lives in San Francisco, CA.


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