Abstract
This article studies how modern philologists have reconstructed a now lost ninth-century Arabic chronicle, the so-called Chronicle of al-Razi, through the account found in fifteenth-century Castilian chronicles of the defeat of the last Visigothic king of Iberia, Rodrigo. In addition to exploring the construction of a textual history that is populated by a series of phantasmal Iberian translators, manuscripts, and copyists, the creation of a modern Castilian edition of this lost Arabic chronicle speaks to the ideological basis and desires of modern, national philology.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Digital Philology |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - 2015 |