Once the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula for Catholicism was over, new churches and parishes were founded, some where there was already a mosque, others in the central areas of the new population centres that arose. This process of parochialisation had the greatest impact on the configuration of the new Christian society. In the Modern Age, rural communities had the parish as their geographical and social centre, a space that reflected, on the one hand, the political and religious order and, on the other hand, the central point from which to orientate themselves: being in the world. The drawings shown are examples that the author of the resource proposes as forms of representation of the local community, that is, of the very conception of space in the form of churches. Gójar and Calicasas (Granada) were depicted in the Ensenada Cadastre (1753-1754) in the same way that Tomás López, as early as 1786-1789, received a sketch for his Relaciones Geográficas: a church surrounded by houses which, like satellites, mark the form of the structure of the space of the municipality or place. All this reflects the prevailing profound mentality of modernity, which imprinted its everyday values on society.

Collection: Images

Project: 10. Churches and religions in Europe., 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/35425/1/RHM_31_02.pdf

Resource type: Image

Format: Map

Source: Ortega Chinchilla, M. J. (2013) "Topografías religiosas. La dimensión territorial de la religiosidad popular en el siglo XVIII", en Revista de Historia Moderna. Anales de la Universidad de Alicante, nº 31, p. 46.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2013

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Revista de Historia Moderna ©María Jesús Ortega Chinchilla

Abstract: Resource showing the municipal representation highlighting the Church as a central element, reflecting the religious mentality expressed in local symbols

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