The Splendor and Opulence of the Past : : Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia / / Paul Freedman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Freedman, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.) :; 8 b&w halftones, 3 maps

The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and also a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: A Catalan Monastery and Its Circle of Historians
• Chapter 1 Jaume Caresmar’s Life and Personality
• Chapter 2 Catalonia in the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 3 The Catalan Language in an “Age of Decadence”
• Chapter 4 Bellpuig de les Avellanes before Caresmar’s Era
• Chapter 5 The Circle of Bellpuig and Other Learned Societies
• Chapter 6 Caresmar’s Works
• Chapter 7 Disamortization, War, and Neglect
• Chapter 8 Wanderings and Destruction of Libraries and Archives
• Conclusion: Medieval Catalonia and the Modern Centuries
• Appendix 1 Surviving Works of Caresmar
• Appendix 2 Works of Caresmar That Were Sent to Madrid but Never Published
• Appendix 3 Discourses by Caresmar Read to the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona
• Bibliography
• Index