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Convivencia as a Surviving Myth of Spanish National Historiography?

Authors: Vala Tadeáš

Year: 2021

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Convivencia as a Surviving Myth of Spanish National Historiography?	Disputes about the uniqueness of Spanish history and related alleged unique coexistence of Muslims, Christians and Jews on the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages - Convivencia - initiated by the Spanish exiles of Franco's regime Américo Castro (1885-1972) and Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (1893-1984) in the mid-20th century, survives to this day. On the one hand, many academic writers and lay people use Castro's term convivencia to refer to the history of unusually tolerant religious coexistence in medieval Spain, without these authors successfully defining and clarifying the very concept of tolerance. On the other hand, the authors still follow the idea of Sánchez-Albornoz that Islam had little or no significant contribution to the positive development of Spain's unique history. The contribution will be devoted to the phenomenon of convivencia and its persistent presence in professional and non-academic discussions.