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The Royal Nation in Global Perspective
2017
Adopting transnational and global history methodologies, this book suggests that the relationship between monarchies and nation-state formation has often been a symbiotic one, and that this can only be adequately explained through a global perspective, going beyond the local histories of particular state systems. While the nation-state has been the most influential concept of political community in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, royal dynasties have, however, often provided a centralized administrative-juridical-cultural locus around which a national community has crystallized itself. Monarchic rulerships have played a central role in the emergence of modern nation-states, which fo…
A Search for the Hidden King: Messianism, Prophecies and Royal Epiphanies of the Kings of Aragon (circa 1250-1520)
2019
Modern historiography has studied the influence of messianic and millennialist ideas in the Crown of Aragon extensively and, more particularly, how they were linked to the Aragonese monarchy. To date, research in the field of art history has mainly considered royal iconography from a different point of view: through coronation, historical or dynastic images. This article will explore the connections, if any, between millennialist prophetic visions and royal iconography in the Crown of Aragon using both texts and the figurative arts, bearing in mind that sermons, books and images shared a common space in late medieval audiovisual culture, where royal epiphanies took place. The point of depar…
Les Lois du roi
1989
« Dans la famille Nodier, je voudrais… le cousin ! » (note sur Claude-Pierre Pajol)
2020
Notice biographique sur Claude-Pierre Pajol (1772-1844), Général d'Empire, Pair de France et cousin de Charles Nodier.
Aportaciones al cálculo de la latitud en la náutica española de principios del siglo XVII contenidas en el manuscrito de Diego Ramírez de Arellano &l…
2013
In 1620, was named chief pilot of the Casa de Contratación de Sevilla Diego Ramírez de Arellano, author of a manuscript entitled Reconocimiento de los estrechos de Magallanes y San Vicente, con algunas cosas curiosas de navegación. He had participated in the reconnaissance mission referred by the title of the manuscript, and in that book developed same methods and tools for a nautical understood scientifically, and even used a methodology close to modern science, as in refuting the theory about Figueiredo of the linear relationship between longitude and magnetic variation of the needle navigation. This article is based on some conclusions that can get an analysis of the manuscript. It focus…
El ocaso del primer imperio mexicano. Agitación política y planes monárquicos en 1823
2021
La abdicación de Agustín de Iturbide al trono de México en 1823 y su posterior exilio desataron tensiones políticas que radicalizaron las posiciones ideológicas de quienes deseaban su regreso. La movilización popular simpatizante de la monarquía y la ruptura federalista en las provincias provocaron una crisis política e incertidumbre sobre el futuro del país. La inestabilidad e indefinición de la situación política en ese año propiciaron conspiraciones a favor del imperio. Este trabajo pretende acercarse a algunos de esos planes conspirativos dirigidos a mantener viva la opción monárquica desde las posiciones moderadas hasta las menos conocidas, pero plenamente ultramontanas. Para ello se e…
El discurso anticlerical en la construcción de una identidad nacional española republicana (1898-1936)
2002
From the colonial disaster, the anticlericalism was a weapon of the republicans against the Monarchy. In the II Republic old prejudices are emerging just to justify the lay legislation of that moment.<br><br>El anticlericalismo fue un arma de los republicanos contra la Monarquía a partir del desastre colonial. En la II República viejos prejuicios surgen para justificar la legislación laicista del momento.
Disputas políticas en un territorio de frontera. La incorporación de la Provincia Oriental a la monarquía bragantina
2021
El presente trabajo se centra en analizar los años de 1820-1823 en la ciudad de Montevideo. La capital de la Provincia Oriental fue ocupada en 1817 por las tropas portuguesas y en 1821 formalizó —mediante un Congreso Extraordinario— la incorporación del territorio a la monarquía portuguesa de los Braganza. Es por ello que, cuando triunfó la segunda revolución liberal en España en 1820 y la primera portuguesa, en el mes de agosto de ese mismo año, la provincia, convertida en la Cisplatina, se adhirió al movimiento constitucional portugués. A lo largo de estas páginas veremos cómo fue el proceso de incorporación del territorio a la monarquía bragantina, y cómo se vivió en Montevideo la disput…
The Death of Charles IX Valois: An Assassin's or a Martyr's Blood?: The Image of Kingship during the French Wars of Religion
2014
Lo scopo di questo articolo è quello di analizzare le opere legate alla morte di Carlo IX Valois. In particolare, ci concentreremo sull'immagine del sangue del re morto. L'analisi dell'autopsia di Carlo, così come il resoconto dell'intrigo di corte che ha caratterizzato gli ultimi mesi della sua vita, fornisce il contesto in cui si è svolto questo flusso di propaganda. Fonti cattoliche, in particolare i sermoni funebri del predicatore di corte Arnaud Sorbin, gettano luce sull'immagine del sangue di Carlo IX come sangue di un re "santo" e "martire". Mostreremo anche come i sermoni di Sorbin si riferissero alla successione al trono di Enrico III data la situazione tesa a corte. Infine, l'anal…
Food in the accounts of a travelling lady: Maria de Luna, queen of Aragon, in 1403
2018
A household account book of Maria de Luna, queen of Aragon, dated 1403, serves as a guide to her everyday life and especially her diet. Its contents give us details that normally go unnoticed, abou...