Competing Claims: An Analysis of References to the Past Made to Justify Ownership of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba

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dc.contributor.advisorWildenthal, Loraen_US
dc.contributor.advisorIrish, Maya Soiferen_US
dc.creatorPanitz, Abigailen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-11T17:31:52Zen_US
dc.date.available2020-08-11T17:31:52Zen_US
dc.date.issued2019-05en_US
dc.descriptionAn undergraduate thesis submitted in partial application for the Honors degree in Historyen_US
dc.description.abstractCompeting claims of ownership to the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, a popular tourist site, have emerged in the twenty-first century. The Cordoban Chapter of the Catholic Church was permitted to register the space as its formal property in 2006. Some politicians, particularly members of Spain’s Socialist party, the PSOE, dispute the law that allowed this registration. In their view, the law was passed as part of the conservative People’s Party’s strategy to protect privileges afforded to the Church. The thesis analyzes two reports to demonstrate how two groups, the state and the Church, relied on distinct episodes of Spanish history to support their claims. A 2014 local Church report used nineteenth- and twentieth-century property laws to defend its claims to ownership. A 2018 local government report used the medieval legal code Las Siete Partidas to argue for restoring the space to state control. The dispute in Córdoba is a microcosm of the challenges affecting church-state relations in the post-dictatorship era of secular democracy in modern Spain.en_US
dc.format.extent123 ppen_US
dc.identifier.citationPanitz, Abigail. "Competing Claims: An Analysis of References to the Past Made to Justify Ownership of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba." Undergraduate thesis, Rice University, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25611/3jyf-x854.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/3jyf-x854en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/109173en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice Universityen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by author.en_US
dc.rights.uriThis item is shared under a Creative Commons License- Attribution (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/en_US
dc.subjectSpainen_US
dc.subjectCordobaen_US
dc.subjectmosque-cathedralen_US
dc.subjectAndaluciaen_US
dc.subjectconvivenciaen_US
dc.subjectreligious history, PSOEen_US
dc.subjectFrancoen_US
dc.subjectAl-Andalusen_US
dc.titleCompeting Claims: An Analysis of References to the Past Made to Justify Ownership of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdobaen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduateen_US
thesis.degree.nameHonor Thesisen_US
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