scholarly journals Ragnild Johnsrud Zorgati, Pluralism in the Middle Ages. Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Denjean
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Medieval Iberia ◽  
The Middle Ages

Scent of a Mystic Woman: Teresa de Jesús and the Interior Castle

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Carrión
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Interior Castle ◽  
Medieval Iberia ◽  
The Law ◽  
Teresa De Jesus ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractIn 1577 Teresa de Jesús composed the Interior Castle, an account of her spiritual experiences that deployed architectural images designed to incite readers to piety and devotion. Critical readings have identified the castle as a spiritual and aesthetic emblem of Christian hegemony, emplotting de Jesús's works in the rhetorical frame of Reconquista narratives. But the Castle, like the houses in the 1562 Book of Life and the palaces in the 1562-1564 Way of Perfection, moves readers to remember landscapes that differ from a monocultural event, as it narrates the ultimate spiritual encounter in frank dissidence with the hegemonic politics and aesthetics of Catholicism that became the law of the land in Spain after 1492. In line with a diversity of medieval mystical traditions from Europe and the Middle East, the choice of a castle—a key architectural sign of the Middle Ages—as the place of paradox, memory, and experience of the sublime offers clues that de Jesús figured out a way to communicate what seemed to be an unaccountable event in Counter-Reformation Spain: being in the presence of divinity and living to tell such story in cross-confessional terms. This essay analyzes the polysemic traces of the castle built by this mystic woman with the figurative fragrance of multicultural medieval Iberia, a space where she carefully negotiated war, crusades, and other kingdoms of heaven with contemplation, survival (pervivencia), and adaptation.

scholarly journals La persistencia del discurso nacionalcatólico sobre el medievo peninsular en la historiografía española actual / The Persistence of National-Catholic Discourse on Medieval Iberia in Current Spanish Historiography

2017 ◽  
pp. 132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro García Sanjuán
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
Medieval Iberia ◽  
National Catholicism ◽  
The Middle Ages

This work examines the surviving persistence of the National Catholic discourse within current Spanish historiography with special regard to the specific case of the study of the Middle Ages. This approach to the medieval Iberian past may be summarized in two major features: the historical illegitimacy of al-Andalus from its origins, expressed through the notion of the Arab and Islamic “invasion” of Iberia, and the consequent legitimacy and glorification of the Christian conquest (so-called Reconquista), ending with the siege of Granada by the Catholic Kings in 1492. The recent publication of AlAndalus y la cruz, by Rafael Sánchez Saus, represents the last academic byproduct of this tendency and its entire argument still drags its most typical prejudices and stereotypes.Key WordsAl-Andalus, National-Catholicism, Reconquista, Religious tolerance, Dhimma.ResumenEste artículo analiza el fenómeno de la continuidad del discurso nacionalcatólico en la historiografía española actual en relación con el caso específico del estudio de la Edad Media. Esta perspectiva sobre la historia medieval ibérica se caracteriza por dos aspectos principales, la ilegitimidad histórica de al-Andalus desde sus orígenes, expresada a través de la noción de la “invasión” árabe y musulmana, y la consiguiente legitimidad y glorificación de su conquista por los cristianos (re-conquista), culminada con la toma de Granada por los Reyes Católicos en 1492. El libro Al-Andalus y la cruz, de Rafael Sánchez Saus, representa la más reciente manifestación de esta corriente historiográfica en el ámbito académico, y todo su argumento todavía arrastra a sus más típicos prejuicios y estereotipos.Palabras claveAl-Andalus, Nacionalcatolicismo, Reconquista, Tolerancia religiosa, Dimma

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