Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain

by Katrina B. Olds

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300185227
• ISBN13: 9780300185225
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"