How Long to Read Forging the Past

How Long Does it Take to Read Forging the Past?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 34 minutes to read Forging the Past by Katrina B. Olds

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inaccuracies, these four volumes of invented “truths” about Spanish sacred history radically transformed the religious landscape in Counter-Reformation Spain and were not definitively exposed as forgeries until centuries later, after nearly two hundred years of scholarly debate. In this fascinating study, Katrina B. Olds explores the history, author, and legacy of one of the world’s most compelling and consequential frauds. The book examines how a relatively obscure Jesuit priest so successfully fabricated a set of supposedly historical documents that they were accepted as authentic for generation after generation. The chronicles’ influence was so powerful, in fact, that they continued to shape scholarly discourse, religious practice, and local heritage throughout Spain well into the twentieth century, despite having been debunked as forgeries in the eighteenth. Olds’s fascinating analysis brings together intellectual, cultural, religious, and political history while reinvigorating an ongoing debate on the uses and abuses of history and the nature of historical and religious truth.

How long is Forging the Past?

Forging the Past by Katrina B. Olds is 439 pages long, and a total of 113,701 words.

This makes it 148% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Forging the Past Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 21 minutes to read Forging the Past aloud.

What Reading Level is Forging the Past?

Forging the Past is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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