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The Granadan Forgeries, 1588–1599 The Granadan Forgeries, 1588–1599
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Higuera and the Archbishop of Granada Higuera and the Archbishop of Granada
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The False Chronicles and the Spanish Jews The False Chronicles and the Spanish Jews
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The Letter from Heaven The Letter from Heaven
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The Chronicles and New Saints The Chronicles and New Saints
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4 Jews, Arabic-Speakers, and New Saints: The False Chronicles and Controversy
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Published:August 2015
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Abstract
This chapter maintains that it was precisely Higuera’s acute awareness of evolving standards of historical criticism that enabled him to mold the texts to the expectations of his audience, and to address several controversial questions of the time, including the role of Jews and their descendants in Spanish history, the authenticity of the plomos of Granada, and the relative value of apocryphal texts. In particular, we can see in Higuera’s wild multiplication of the number of martyrs in Roman Hispania, as well as in his imaginative rendition of the roles of Jews and of Arabic-speakers in Spanish sacred history, the creative interplay between tradition and innovation that characterized Higuera’s working method in the chronicles and elsewhere; not coincidentally, these were topics of great interest and controversy among Higuera’s peers and readers.
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