Moorish-themed literary texts should be read as historical evidence

Evidence

Rather than allowing texts which are of the greatest value to remain silent in the limbo to which they have been relegated, we should consider them as an intellectual facet of a historical problem, and assess their value within that context. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 948

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the key methodological stance of the chapter: literary texts as historical documents, not aesthetic artifacts.
• XREF: connects to: Socio-historical reading can locate a poem’s moment of composition in society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2222