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- Title
FROM HISTORICAL SOURCE TO IDENTITY SYMBOL. JULIA RIBERA AND THE EDITION OF THE LLIBRE DEL REPARTIMENT OF VALENCIA (1929-1939).
- Authors
VICIANO, PAU
- Abstract
The so-called Llibre del Repartiment (Book of Land Division), a record of the donations made by James I of Aragon following the conquest of the kingdom of Valencia, was already considered a fundamental historical source by Valencian historians in the 198 century. The edition made of this document by the archivist Prbsper de Bofarull iii 1856 allowed its dissemination until the Arabist JuliA Ribera, al the beginning of the twentieth century, highlighted its shortcomings and proposed the production of a new edition of a more scientific nature. In order to obtain the support of local institutions and private patronage, Ribera undertook a real canipaign to spread the meaning of the Llibre del Repartimem throughout Valencian society, beyond the circle of historians and scholars. In this sense, the Arabist had to stimulate regionalist sentiment by eniphasizing the symbolic dimension of the document as the founding myth of Christian Valencia. Iii this way, a process of transformation of tile Llibre del Repartiment from a historical source to a symbol of identity began, in an unfinished process of mythification that was expanding from the conservative regionalist sphere to the incipient cultural and political Valencianism of the 1930% until this process was halted by the impact of the Civil War.
- Subjects
VALENCIA (Spain); HISTORICAL source material; PATRONAGE; BOOK donations; CIVIL war; HISTORIANS; TWENTIETH century; SIGNS &; symbols
- Publication
Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum, 2022, Vol 16, p43
- ISSN
1888-3931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21001/itma.2022.16.02