Golden Age of Spain

Golden Age of Spain

Introduction

The historically so lucky Golden definition was created by the famous eighteenth-century scholar and antiquarian Jose Luis Velazquez, Valdeflores Marquis (1722-1772), who first used in 1754, in his important and pioneering critical work Origins of poetry Spanish, but to refer exclusively to the sixteenth century. Later the definition was expanded, understanding all the classical age or height of the Spanish culture, essentially the Renaissance of the sixteenth century and the Baroque of the seventeenth century. For the historiography and modern theorists, then, and sticking to specific dates key events, the "Golden Age" includes the publication of the Spanish grammar of Nebrija in 1492 until the death of Calderon in 1681.The Golden Age has been one of the most brilliant and prolific periods of Spanish art. This paper discusses The Golden Age of Spain in a holistic context.

Discussion

In the late eighteenth century had already popularized the term "Golden Age" (created in the middle of the century by Valdeflores, and soon caught), with which Lope de Vega was referring to his own and that aroused the admiration of Don Quixote in his famous speech on the Golden Age. In the nineteenth century ended consecrate the Hispanist American George Ticknor in his History of Spanish Literature, alluding to the famous myth of the Theogony of Hesiod in which there a number of men of different ages increasingly degraded metal.

With its dynastic union, the Catholic Kings fashioned a politically strong state, later consolidated, whose hits envied some contemporary intellectuals like Machiavelli, but ideologically dominated by the Inquisition Church. The Christianized Jews were not expelled in 1492 and founded Spanish colonies scattered throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa, where he continued to cultivate their language and literature written in Castilian, so that also produced notable figures as Joseph Penso of Vega, Miguel Silveira, Jacob Uziel, Miguel de Barrios, Antonio Enriquez Gomez, Juan de Prado, Isaac Cardoso, Abraham Zacuto, Orobio Isaac de Castro, Joao Pinto Delgado, Rodrigo Mendez Silva and Manuel de Pina, among others. In January 1492 Castile conquered Granada, which ends the Muslim political stage mainland, although a minority Moorish dwell more or less tolerated until the time of Philip III. Also in October, Columbus reached America and the desire cultivated warrior during medieval wars of Reconquista is projected on the new lands, as well as on Europe "the most extraordinary feat in the history of mankind," writes the historian Pierre Vilar. However, and especially in the mid-sixteenth, persecuted or have to migrate the Erasmian and Protestant Spanish, including the translators of the Bible into Castilian, as Francis Dryander, New King James and Cipriano de Valera, in addition to Protestant humanist Juan Perez de Pineda, Antonio del Corro or Juan de Luna, among others.

During the cultural and economic peak this time Spain reached international prestige ea Europe. The coming from Spain was often imitated, and extends the learning and language study. Cultural areas were cultivated literature, the arts, the music and architecture. Knowledge accumulates in the prestigious universities of ...