445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
The History of Literature
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What Is the Church Slash State?
Devid: There are all kinds of different types of deceptive discourse, including some strat out disinformation that was indeed created under the auspices of the hubsburg monarchy. Hereis an example, an starting with catholica monarchss, always going back to in the fifteenth century. But through the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century, the spanish monarchs were increasing their power or making sure they had itheological control. They actually hired a bunch of pseudo historians to write t ancestral histories of spain under this notion that spain had always been a catholic nation. Then obviously, those whose cultural heritage was outside of that version of spain were essentially defined as outsiders
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