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- Title
THE FRONTIER FORTRESSES AND SANCTUARIES OF AL-ANDALUS: RECONQUEST, RESIGNIFICATION AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA (ELEVENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES).
- Authors
PALACIOS ONTALVA, JOSÉ SANTIAGO
- Abstract
The ideology of the reconquest pursued a clear objective: the recovery of a nation illegitimately occupied by Muslim invaders and the restoration of Christianity in Peninsular territory. This process necessarily entailed the submission, if not the expulsion, of al-Andalus's Muslim population, as well as the erasure of any sign of its presence, culture or religion. The Christians demonstrated great efficacy in this operation through a series of different actions leading, first of all, to the effective control over the territory and its fortresses, places of worship, and spiritual landmarks. Then by resignification through different symbolic and religious elements. And, finally, developing an alternative collective memory, one that would justify their actions, sustain the new and victorious Christian society and subdue the vanquished Muslims.
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; COLLECTIVE memory; FIFTEENTH century; MUSLIMS; PENINSULAS; WORSHIP (Christianity)
- Publication
Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum, 2024, Vol 18, p45
- ISSN
1888-3931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21001/itma.2024.18.02