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, Lora
dc.contributor.advisorIrish, Maya Soifer
dc.creatorPanitz, Abigail
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-11T17:31:52Z
dc.date.available2020-08-11T17:31:52Z
dc.date.issued2019-05
dc.descriptionAn undergraduate thesis submitted in partial application for the Honors degree in History
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.
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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.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/3jyf-x854
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/109173
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University
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dc.rights.uriThis item is shared under a Creative Commons License- Attribution (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subjectSpain
dc.subjectCordoba
dc.subjectmosque-cathedral
dc.subjectAndalucia
dc.subjectconvivencia
dc.subjectreligious history, PSOE
dc.subjectFranco
dc.subjectAl-Andalus
dc.titleCompeting Claims: An Analysis of References to the Past Made to Justify Ownership of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanities
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduate
thesis.degree.nameHonor Thesis
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