Medieval institutions in spain
    

Medievalism understood as a study   of the Middle Ages had in historiography and history of Spanish literature a privileged field , therefore the relative documentary abundance (compared to other areas ) as the intellectual quality of those who have dedicated their him, both Spanish and foreign hispanistas .

See also : Category: Medievalists of Spain
The construction of a national history was in Spain , as in other countries , an essential step in the process of building national consciousness or Spanish nationalism ; competing since the late nineteenth century with the peripheral nationalisms. In both cases the claim as "national glories " of medieval characters was a widely used resource ( beyond what is justified or not such use ) .

Understood as historicism in aesthetic, the Spanish Romanticism had , like other countries, particularly fond of the Middle Ages ( in fact, many other countries had romantic predilection for the Spanish Middle Ages, as Washington Irving -Tales of the Alhambra - ) . Medievalists reconstructions were given both the Spanish romantic drama ( Hartzenbusch , Lovers of Teruel ) and the Spanish historical novel ( Pedro Montengón -The Rodrigo , Larra -The youth of Henry the doliente- , Enrique Gil and Carrasco 'Mr. of Bembibre- , Manuel Fernández y González -The tribute hundred maidens ) or the Legends of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. Also in history painting (very prominent are the collections of the Palace of the Parliament and the Senate Palace and the meeting in the Prado ) and sculptural monuments , which are urban landmarks in many populations. The Spanish architecture, and follow the international neo-Gothic fashion, brought a distinctive characteristic the neomudéjar .