Al-Andalus en la construcción del relato identitario del foralismo navarro
ISSN: 1540-5877
Year of publication: 2017
Volume: 37
Pages: 282-304
Type: Article
More publications in: eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies
Abstract
At the end of the 19th century Navarro Villoslada published his novel Amaya y los vascos en el siglo VIII. In this literary work, the author defended the thesis that the Kingdom of Pamplona, later called Kingdom of Navarre, had been forged in the context of the Islamic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, being the result of the union between Basques and Visigoths against their common enemy, the Muslims. In the following decades this opinion became consolidated both in academic circles and in the popular ones, especially after the coup d’état of 1936 and the subsequent enforcement of the nacionalcatolicismo. However, archaeological findings of the last decades have wrecked the foundations of this theory.