Katrina B Olds: 1 book
Forging the Past
Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inaccuracies,...
