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Losing Monarchs: The Legacy of German and English National Historiography
2017
During the nineteenth century, Leopold von Ranke, Johann Gustav Droysen, Alfred von Arneth, and other German-speaking historians established an alleged ‘scientific’ approach to history, based on the so-called historiographic method. They interpreted history as determined by ‘great’ ideas, such as nation, state, and religion. Similarly, the British Whig interpretation of history—represented, for example, by Henry Hallam and Thomas Macaulay—conceptualized history as a continuously ascending process, in which Great Britain established a civilised modern empire spanning territories on all continents. This chapter shows how monarchs became lost—that is, not considered noteworthy—when their rule …
La música o el 27
2020
La simplista identificación de la Generación del 27 sólo con un grupo poético choca con la riqueza de la actividad intelectual en la España del primer cuarto del siglo XX. Este artículo, a través del análisis de la diferente fortuna de la obra musical de algunos compositores del momento, aborda el interés que puede estar detrás de la idea estandarizada del 27 y el oscurecimiento del pensamiento modernista, cómo el aparente progresismo de algunos de esos poetas ha servido de coartada para la imposición de una historiografía conservadora y autojustificante, para la asunción de un sino hispano que, en realidad, ha sido impuesto sistemáticamente a través del control y la represión. Quizá sea ne…
Einstein and Relativity: What Price Fame?
2012
ArgumentEinstein's initial fame came in late 1919 with a dramatic breakthrough in his general theory of relativity. Through a remarkable confluence of events and circumstances, the mass media soon projected an image of the photogenic physicist as a bold new revolutionary thinker. With his theory of relativity Einstein had overthrown outworn ideas about space and time dating back to Newton's day, no small feat. While downplaying his reputation as a revolutionary, Einstein proved he was well cast for the role of mild-mannered scientific genius. Yet fame demanded its price. Surrounded by social and economic unrest in Berlin, he was caught between two worlds, one struggling to be born, another …
Brown and Classicism
2019
Charles Brockden Brown embraced the classical tradition in English literature, as can be seen from his many references to Greek and Roman historiographers, poets, and philosophers. His retellings of ancient events and his portraits of classical figures questioned central maxims in the writing of history which derived from Cicero and had been practiced by the later school of eighteenth-century exemplary historiography. While Brown’s classicism has been frequently interpreted along the line of the growing political tensions in the 1790s, this chapter shows that his adaptations of classical sources are motivated less by a partisan spirit than by Brown’s understanding of himself as a civic comm…
Necrológica del <i>Outsider</i> Reinhart Koselleck: el «historiador pensante» y las polémicas de los historiadores
2007
Reinhart Koselleck is an author difficult to classify, since his conceptual history is rejected, and at the same time taken advantage of, by both philosophy and historiography. This paper analyses Koselleck’s attitude, sometimes tactful, at other times passionate, towards the polemics of the historians and philosophers of his country, and particularly towards the controversy concerning the involvement of both groups in Nazism—a controversy that has provoked a debate, still open, about the affections and disaffections between the science which studies the past, and memory, and has also unleashed a dispute about memorials motivated by the monument to the victims of the Holocaust. Koselleck tr…
Johana Kristofa Broces (Brotze, 1742-1823) dzīvesgājums un viņa rokrakstu kolekcija LU Akadēmiskajā bibliotēkā
2013
ANOTĀCIJA Promocijas darbs „Johana Kristofa Broces (Brotze, 1742-1823) dzīvesgājums un viņa rokrakstu kolekcija LU Akadēmiskajā bibliotēkā” ir interdisciplinārs humanitāro zinātņu pētījums, kas veltīts Latvijas kultūrvēsturē īpaši nozīmīgas personības biogrāfijas rekonstrukcijai un viņa darbības analīzei, un tādējādi risina bibliotēku vēstures, grāmatniecības, avotpētniecības, historiogrāfijas problēmas. Nav šaubu par to, ka pedagogs, avotpētnieks un bibliofils Broce ir viens no visspilgtākajiem Apgaismības laikmeta darbiniekiem Latvijā un Baltijā. Viņa rokrakstu un grāmatu kolekcija (kopskaitā 599 sējumi) ir kļuvusi par LU Akadēmiskās bibliotēkas dārgumu, vēsturiskās kontinuitātes apliecin…
El día más difícil del rey. Discursos de legitimación monárquica desde la ficción televisiva
2015
This essay examines the representation of the political process which led to the establishment and subsequent consolidation of the constitutional monarchy in recent Spanish TV fiction. It also aims at finding out what these stories reveal about the context of crisis which has engendered them. The paper focuses on the paradigmatic case of 23-F, el día más difícil del Rey - a highly popular TV drama released by the state-owned channel TVE in February 2009 - in order to analyze the discourse of monarchic legitimacy it conveys.
El nacimiento de la historiografia musical en Italia durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y los problemas del metodo historico
2015
The article explains the role, the scope and the methods of the 19th-Century music historiography in Italy in comparison to positivism, which fostered a scientific methodology to reshape history of arts and literature. Aiming to discover the value and the ideal place of musical oeuvre, some historiographers described the periodization by means of different paradigms and philosophies, drawn from the theory of evolution of Darwin and Spencer, and the positivism of Hyppolite Taine. Some essays, such as "L’evoluzione nella musica" (1898, 1911 enlarged ed.) and the monograph "Riccardo Wagner" (1890), written by Oscar Chilesotti and Luigi Torchi, are examined at the light of those philosophies. I…
Introduzione
2005
The Introductory word explains the role and scope of music historiography during the second half of 19th-Century Italy. At that time, historiographers were oriented to discover the value and the ideal place of musical oeuvre, rethinking music periodization through different paradigms and philosophies.
La fin du Néolithique dans le sud-est de la France. Concepts techniques, culturels et chronologiques de 1954 à 2004
2006
The mediterranean France final Neolithic, between the end of Middle Neolithic Chasséen (3700-3500 Cal BC) and the end of the transitional period to the early Bronze Age, with the barbed Wire groups (1900-1800 Cal BC), is a complex period marked by the definition of almost about fifteen cultural groups and many of geographical facies and chronological phases. The chronological and technical concepts used are not less complex and varied according to researchers (Recent Neolithic or late Middle Neolithic or Final Neolithic 1, Final Neolithic and Copper Age or only Final Neolithic, and Copper Age-early Bronze Age...). If the Rhone constituted only seldom a real border during the Neolithic, it i…