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La Marcousse à Poliénas du XVe au XVIIe siècle : les aspects matériels et économiques d'un domaine noble en Isère
2004
The stronghold of Marcousse still partially in elevation in the municipality of Poliénas (Isère, France) is richly documented by a remarkable archives for this type of rural settlement . The author reports on the major phases of the implementation and of developments in this area by addressing issues both material (buildings and furniture stock) and economic ( field management) under the Old Regime .
Oligarchies and Client Systems in Rural communities in the South of the Crown of Aragón (13th to 15th Centuries)
2010
Studies of late medieval Hispanic client systems generally focus on networks of noble power, to the exclusion of the peasantry. This is doubtless in part because the peasantry has traditionally been considered to represent a largely homogenous social group defined in opposition to the feudal nobility, whose members defended common interests. However, the last few years have witnessed a profusion of studies into the rural, or peasant, elites of Western Europe during the late medieval and modern periods, and these highlight not only significant disparities between the economic status of those and that of the remainder of the peasantry, but also their employment of specific power-mechanisms in…
Rhema ghennàion. Responsabilità ‘genetica’ del poeta tragico nelle Rane di Aristofane
2017
Questo contributo si propone di indagare il rapporto tra cultura e politica nelle Rane di Aristofane attraverso una delineazione delle nozioni di responsabilità e merito nella figura del poeta tragico au-spicata da Aristofane. Dall’appartenenza del poeta alle Muse, che si configura nella sua partecipa-zione ai loro Misteri, discende una sua responsabilità ‘genetica’: il poeta utile alla polis è infatti fer-tile (γόνιμος), ovvero, è in grado di fecondare il teatro, e quindi la città, di valori che, ispirandosi agli insegnamenti del passato, educhino i cittadini. Intorno al concetto di ‘nobiltà’ (γενναιότης), unito a quello di fecondità (sulla base della radice *γεν-), si sviluppa l’idea di u…
The Polish Nation: From a Multiethnic to an Ethnically Homogenous Nation-State
2009
In Chapter 4 I focused on the stateless noble natio of partitioned Poland-Lithuania that sought to transform itself into a Polish nation. The Polish-Lithuanian noble leaders paid lip service to the French model of the nation-state but, apart from a few lonely dissenting voices, had no intention to broaden the confines of the planned Polish nation to embrace the ‘third estate,’ that is, the peasantry and burghers. The social barrier of serfdom alone kept the nobles from associating with peasants. In the cities, a large and sometimes predominant, segment of the population was made up of German-speakers and Yiddish-speaking Jews. Their idioms disqualified them from participation in the emergin…
Curial e Güelfa, un nou món per a un nou cavaller : espais literaris en un entorn humanístic
2018
Resum: El Curial e Güelfa és una novel·la que sorprèn per la seva modernitat. Tot i que conserva certes reminiscències medievals, com a resultat del gènere cavalleresc que la caracteritza, hem de situar-la dins de l’ambient humanista de la Itàlia del Quatttocento: tant les fonts literàries, com molts dels temes que hi apareixen, parlen d’un context social e intel·lectual que es viu en aquests moment a Itàlia. El protagonista, Curial, amb el seu propòsit d’harmonitzar armes i lletres, n’és el millor exemple. El jove cavaller ha de concloure un procés de maduració personal –de crisi existencial, també– per poder assolir l’objectiu que persegueix: casar-se amb la Güelfa. Per aquesta raó, a ban…
Las batallas de Atapuerca y la (re)escritura novelesca de la historia
2020
La batalla de Atapuerca (1054) constituye un hito en la historia del reino de Navarra. Desde su primera versión historiográfica conservada en la Historia silense (c. 1118-1126), el relato de la batalla de Atapuerca sufrió modificaciones, amplificaciones y refundiciones en su extensa dispersión en el tiempo y el espacio. En este trabajo se lleva a cabo, en un primer momento, una comparación entre distintas versiones latinas (fundamentalmente la Silense, el Chronicon mundi y De rebus Hispaniae) y castellanas de este episodio para luego dar lugar al análisis de una versión tardía del enfrentamiento incluida en el manuscrito 431 de la Biblioteca Nacional de España, códice que dataría de la segu…
Gracia y gobierno en la administración valenciana del seiscientos. Hacia nuevos consensos
2015
Desde 1645 dos miembros de la nobleza local entraron a formar parte de la sala criminal de la Audiencia valenciana. Como consejeros de capa y espada asumieron competencias en materias de gracia y gobierno. Con esta medida se introdujo una moderación del arbitrio virreinal en tales ejercicios. Pero, sobre todo, la corona convirtió a la pequeña y mediana nobleza del reino en nueva colaboradora de su política de control estamental. From 1645 two members of the local nobility came to form part of the Criminal Chamber of the Valencian audience. As Ministers of «capa y espada» took powers in matters of Grace and Government. This measure was introduced a moderation of the Viceregal discretion in s…
Agrarian Elites and types of Caciquism. The Rafal/Vía Manuel Family from the Crisis of Absolutism to the Crisis of the Restoration Regime
1998
El trabajo trata de explorar la utilidad de la historia social de la política, analizando los rasgos y estrategias de diversos sectores de la nobleza en el contexto del cambio social a partir de la revolución liberal. Se observan tipos diversos de caciquismo en cuanto a sus rasgos sociales y sus raíces políticas, su relación con el poder económico propio y la injerencia del Estado en las rivalidades políticas. Los sectores populares podían hacer valer sus aspiraciones a partir de estas rivalídades entre diversas oligarquías. This article seeks to explore the usefulness of a social history of politics. The authors study the different heritage and political strategies of several noble familie…
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE REDEFINITION OF POLITICAL LOYALTIES
2007
This article discusses the study of modernization in the conceptions of political identities and loyalties in Scandinavia in the late 18th century. Opening with a review of recent Scandinavian research on political cultures, the language of politics and emerging nationalism in the 18th century, it locates the ensuing case studies in this burgeoning field and also in a wider, European and comparative context. The construction of identities and loyalties among the nobility, the clergy, burghers, civil servants and peasants is examined. The author argues that, despite much of apparent continuity of values, there was a surprising degree of potential for innovation within Scandinavian political …
Tenuta e rinnovamento della nobiltà feudale nella Sicilia spagnola (XVI-XVII secc.)
2022
Il saggio analizza sulla base di un ampio ricorso a fonti primarie i fattori di consolidamento e di rinnovamento della nobiltà feudale nella Sicilia spagnola (secc. XVI-XVII) The essay analyzes the factors of consolidation and renewal of the feudal nobility in Spanish Sicily (16th-17th centuries) on the basis of extensive recourse to primary sources.