LEADER 04249nam 2200577 450 001 9910463868803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4214-0165-7 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068907 035 $a(MH)012104513-7 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606979 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11411404 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606979 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584919 035 $a(PQKB)11096581 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4398398 035 $a(OCoLC)868198214 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2806 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4398398 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11161115 035 $a(OCoLC)794701423 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068907 100 $a20080924d2009 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClio & the crown $ethe politics of history in medieval and early modern Spain /$fRichard L. Kagan 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 342 p., [11] pages of plates)$cillustrations, map 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8018-9294-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Official history -- Empire and history -- Historia pro persona : Emperor Charles V -- Historia pro patria : Philip II -- "His majesty's history" -- Defending imperium -- "To mortify our enemies" : history and propaganda at the court of Philip IV -- Critical history or official history? -- Conclusion: Rethinking official history. 330 $aMonarchs throughout the ages have commissioned official histories that cast their reigns in a favorable light for future generations. These accounts, sanctioned and supported by the ruling government, often gloss over the more controversial aspects of a king's or queen?s time on the throne. Instead, they present highly selective and positive readings of a monarch?s contribution to national identity and global affairs. In Clio and the Crown, Richard L. Kagan examines the official histories of Spanish monarchs from medieval times to the middle of the 18th century. He expertly guides readers through the different kinds of official histories commissioned: those whose primary focus was the monarch; those that centered on the Spanish kingdom as a whole; and those that celebrated Spain?s conquest of the New World. In doing so, Kagan also documents the life and work of individual court chroniclers, examines changes in the practice of official history, and highlights the political machinations that influenced the redaction of such histories. Just as world leaders today rely on fast-talking press officers to explain their sometimes questionable actions to the public, so too did the kings and queens of medieval and early modern Spain. Monarchs often went to great lengths to exert complete control over the official history of their reign, physically intimidating historians, destroying and seizing manuscripts and books, rewriting past histories, and restricting history writing to authorized persons. Still, the larger practice of history writing - as conducted by nonroyalist historians, various scholars and writers, and even church historians - provided a corrective to official histories. Kagan concludes that despite its blemishes, the writing of official histories contributed, however imperfectly, to the practice of historiography itself. 607 $aSpain$xHistory$y711-1516$xHistoriography 607 $aSpain$xHistory$y16th century$xHistoriography 607 $aSpain$xHistory$y17th century$xHistoriography 607 $aSpain$xHistory$y18th century$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a946.0072 700 $aKagan$b Richard L.$f1943-$0140802 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463868803321 996 $aClio & the crown$92227455 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress