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- Title
EL REINO DE LOS VISIGODOS Y "LA PRIMERA ESPAÑA": EL ROL DE LA ARQUEOLOGÍA EN LA CREACIÓN DE NARRATIVAS LEGITIMADORAS.
- Authors
Quirós Castillo, Juan Antonio; Tejerizo-García, Carlos
- Abstract
As occurred in other European countries, the post-Roman states in the Iberian Peninsula, have been a source of legitimization for the aspirations of the political formations which took place through history. Starting in the Early Middle Ages, the Astur-leonese kingdom created a genealogy which connected the monarchy with the Gothic past a relationship which was recurrent in the chronicles and histories written by the medieval and modern Castilian kings. Although the Gothic period did not have a particular prominence during the process of construction of the nation-state's ideology in the 19th century the period in which the professional emergence of History and Archaeology took place, it played an important role in different contexts in which national political unity was at stake. In this process, from the 1920s onwards, the materiality of the Visigoths performed a leading role in the national representation of the past, mainly in the monarchic period and through the different phases of the long Francoist dictatorship. In this paper we explore how Archaeology was used all through the 20th century to build politically oriented narratives on identities. Moreover, we will critically reflect on some tendencies which characterized the study of the Visigoths in Hispania in recent years. Among these tendencies we will underline that, even though during the political transition in the 1980s an academic isolation towards this historical subject took place, in the last few years there has been an increasing interest in this trend, both in the academic and in the public domain and, above all, the political. We will conclude by requesting a greater political and social involvement of Academia in order to avoid the absorption of the historical narratives by the emergent national-populist movement that is now prevalent in the West.
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; HISTORY of archaeology; MIDDLE Ages; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL source material; GOTHIC architecture
- Publication
Archeologia Medievale: Cultura Materiale, Insediamenti, Territorio, 2019, Vol 46, p51
- ISSN
0390-0592
- Publication type
Article