Talk:Spanish Pre-Romanesque art and architecture
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I don't understand this article. How can you have "Spanish art" before Spain existed? That's like calling the art of the Celts in present-day England "English Art". It makes no sense. We call it Celtic art and Anglo-Saxon art and Hiberno-Saxon art. The same with Spain, we break it down into the entities that existed at the time, we dont call it "Spanish art". Stbalbach 19:30, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
- Spain did exist then. The English-language term "Spain" may not have because the modern English language didn't, but Spain existed. The Latin term "Hispania" certainly did. That is the term which evolved into Spain in English and the name for Spain in most other languages and all Romance ones. Spain meant Iberia, or Christian Iberia, depending on the time. The term "Anglo-Saxon art" means about as much as "English art", but of a specific period. "Spanish Pre-Romanesque" refers to art of Spain in the Pre-Romanesque art period. Regional differences were more significant in a bygone era when communication and travel were slower, thus Spanish pre-romanesque is differentiated from other varieties such as Carolingian or Ottonian art. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Hiberno-Saxon art are not Pre-Romanesque, they are Migration Period art. Srnec 04:03, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
