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The Splendor and Opulence of the Past
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions—some only recently discovered—provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, Catalonia was a thriving, independent set of principalities within what would...
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation. By adopting both transnational and long-term approaches, the book explores the historical dimension of notions such as accountability, transparency, and vigilance in their immediate political, social, and legal contexts. The starting point is to view corruption not as a moral category that emerged in 1789 to delegitimise past, foreign or present state systems, but as a constantly contested concept that must also be historicised in past societies. The collection revisits chronologies and examines different local, regional, and national frames, highlighting that the path to modernity was contested and affected by a variety of unique circumstances, such as revolutions and external political powers. Building on the latest research and offering new methods of inquiry, this book is a compelling resource for academics interested in political history and the history of corruption.
The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). During this time of wrenching technological, demographic, climatic, and economic change, empires had to struggle with new religious movements, incipient nationalisms, new sea routes, new military technologies, and an evolving state system with complex new rules of diplomacy. Engaging with a host of ...
For the Common Good
On June 7, 1640, the viceroy of Catalonia was stabbed to death on a Barcelona beach. By Christmas, several more royal officials of the Spanish principality had been assassinated. In the wake of these and other violent acts committed by the "people"—a term used for artisans—the Catalans severed their allegiance to the Spanish monarchy and elected Louis XIII of France their new king. The first English-language book to explore the political beliefs and behavior of early modern craftsmen, Luis Corteguera's work offers a dramatically new account of the origins of the Catalan revolt, the longest rebellion in seventeenth-century Spain.Drawing on his extensive research in Barcelona's archives, C...
Conflicting Words
Portraying the political culture of both the Spain and the United Provinces, Conflicting Words analyses the views held in both territories concerning the points that were discussed in pamphlets and treatises published during the peace negotiations.
Scots and Catalans
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the contrasts between the Scottish and Catalan experiences across a five-hundred-year period, beginning with the royal marriages that brought about union with their more powerful neighbors, England and Castile respectively, and following the story through the centuries from the end of the Middle Ages until today’s dramatic events. J. H. ...
Manual d'història moderna universal
Aquest manual és una introducció a la història moderna universal i exposa amb un llenguatge entenedor les principals característiques del món entre els segles XV i XVIII. Les vint-i-quatre unitats temàtiques que configuren l’obra han estat escrites per especialistes en la temàtica i aborden qüestions d’espai i temps, inclouen qüestions de mètode i epistemologia amb l’objectiu d’explicitar el contingut crític inherent a l’anàlisi històrica, incideixen en l’aprenentatge, tenen una perspectiva universal i un caràcter pluridisciplinari i transversal, i aborden temes ambientals, científics, polítics i de gènere.
Cartes i salut al segle XVI
Durant la primera meitat del segle XVI, dues dones de l’aristocràcia, Hipòlita Roís de Liori i Estefania de Requesens, mare i filla, mantenen una activa correspondència i parlen sovint de la salut, la dels seus i la del seu entorn. Francesc Devesa ha estudiat les cartes i analitza els símptomes i les malalties a què fan referència, l’embaràs i els parts, els remeis i l’alimentació, la violència, l’esclavitud o els rituals religiosos, sense oblidar el personal sanitari de l’època: metges, comares o llevadores, apotecaris i barbers. L’autor ens fa partícips de la intimitat de les protagonistes, pacients i guaridores alhora, dels seus sentiments, de les seues alegries i preocupacions i, en definitiva, de la seua saviesa, de transmissió principalment femenina, on conflueixen el galenisme oficial i la medicina popular en el context social i cultural renaixentista.
Le Portugal Au Temps Du Conde-Duc D'Olivares
En 1580, Philippe II revendique l'héritage de la dynastie des Avis, désormais éteinte, et s'empare du trône de Portugal. Pendant soixante ans, les Habsbourg d'Espagne règnent sur un pays qui conserve néanmoins son autonomie juridique. Dans ses causes immédiates, l'avènement en 1640 de la dynastie des Bragance traduit tout d'abord un rejet de la politique menée par le favori de Philippe IV, le comte-duc d'Olivares. Le financement de la guerre de Trente Ans et de l'effort militaire hispanique avait imposé un programme de perception, pour l'ensemble de la Monarchie, qui consacrait le recours au régime de l'extraordinaire et impliquait le recul des juridictions et prérogatives portugaises au profit de l'autorité du roi et de son entourage. L'étude de différents types de textes permet de multiplier les éclairages sur la société portugaise, où la dispersion des sources d'autorité et des modalités d'exercice du pouvoir engendre un véritable kaléidoscope politique, et conduit à s'interroger sur le sens, voire la pertinence, des concepts enchaînes d'État et de Nation à propos de l'histoire politique du premier XVIIe siècle européen.
