Constructing Catalan Identity Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval /

• Main Author: Vargas, Michael A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Europe-History-476-1492.; Europe-History-1492-.; Historiography.; Civilization-History.; History of Medieval Europe.; History of Modern Europe.; Memory Studies.; Cultural History.

This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the mo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• I. Inventory
• 2. Events and Accidents
• 3. Princes and People
• 4. Patrons, Protectors, and Creative Defenders
• 5. Castle, Coast, and Cathedral
• II. Making Meaning
• 6. Decadence and Renaissance
• 7. Medievalizing and Modernizing
• 8. Fighting Words. 9. Epilogue: In an October of Another Year.