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Eva Serra i Puig : sessió en memòria : tinguda els dies 10 i 11 d'abril de 2019
Eva Serra i Puig (1942-2018), història i compromís (Congrés) (2019 : Barcelona, Catalunya)
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
This volume examines late medieval and early modern warfare in France, the Hispanic World, and the Dutch Republic through the lens of trauma and memory studies. The essays, focusing on history, literature, and visual culture, demonstrate how people living with wartime violence processed and remembered the trauma of war.
The King's Other Body
Queen María of Castile, wife of Alfonso V, "the Magnanimous," king of the Crown of Aragon, governed Catalunya in the mid-fifteenth century while her husband conquered and governed the kingdom of Naples. For twenty-six years, she maintained a royal court and council separate from and roughly equivalent to those of Alfonso in Naples. Such legitimately sanctioned political authority is remarkable given that she ruled not as queen in her own right but rather as Lieutenant-General of Catalunya with powers equivalent to the king's. María does not fit conventional images of a queen as wife and mother; indeed, she had no children and so never served as queen-regent for any royal heirs in their min...
Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status
Despite the increasing popularity of queer scholarship, no major work in English thus far has explored the evidence of male homosexual behaviour found in the inquisitorial court records of early modern Spain. This absence seems all the more glaring considering the wealth of available archival material. Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status aims to fill this gap by comprehensively examining the Aragonese Inquisition's sodomy trials. Using court records, Cristian Berco provides an analysis of male sexuality and its connection to public social structures and processes. His study illustrates how male homosexual behaviour existed within a widespread gendered system that extolled the penetrative act a...
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...
The Moral Economy
The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe. It starts with an examination of poverty, the need for credit, and the lending practices of different social groups. It then reconstructs the battles between the Churches and the State around the ban on usury, and analyzes the institutions created to eradicate usury and the informal petty financial economy that developed as a result. Laurence Fontaine unpacks the values that structured these lending practices, namely, the two competing cultures of credit that coexisted, fought, and sometimes merged: the vibrant aristocratic culture and the capitalistic merchant culture. More broadly, Fontaine shows how economic trust between individuals was constructed in the early modern world. By creating a dialogue between past and present, and contrasting their definitions of poverty, the role of the market, and the mechanisms of microcredit, Fontaine draws attention to the necessity of recognizing the different values that coexist in diverse political economies.
El (re)descobriment de l'edat moderna
El (re)descobriment de l’edat moderna ha estat l’eix vertebrador de l’activitat docent i investigadora d’Eulàlia Duran. Amb motiu de la seva jubilació com a catedràtica del Departament de Filologia Catalana de la Universitat de Barcelona hem volgut impulsar aquesta miscel lània d’estudis en reconeixement, admiració i homenatge a la persona, a la rellevància de la seva obra científica i a l’amplitud de les activitats acadèmiques que ha dut a terme. Els vint-i-vuit treballs que publiquem, elaborats per col legues, deixebles i col laboradors d’Eulàlia Duran, volen contribuir a aquest (re)descobriment de l’edat moderna en l’àmbit català. Hi apareixen les línies mestres de les seves investigacions: la recerca arxivística, l’epistolografia, la historiografia, la base històrica de les creacions literàries, els models culturals, els gèneres literaris... i també l’exigència, el rigor, la precisió i la claredat dels seus treballs, aportació de nous textos i revisió d’obres ja conegudes. Volen, doncs, explicitar l’assumpció i consolidació d’un itinerari de recerca, amb la lògica renovació temàtica i metodològica.
