The viceroyal courts in the Mediterranean world: power and representation in the Early Modern period
- Study group for the history of the western Mediterranean (GEHMO)
- European Network for the Baroque Cultural Heritage (ENBACH)
- Articulació del territori i relacions mediterrànies a la Catalunya d’època moderna
- Poder i representacions culturals a l’Època Moderna: la Monarquia d’Espanya com a camp cultural (segles XVI-XVIII)
- Els conflictes socials com a resistència al poder a la perifèria de l’Estat Modern. Segles XVI-XVII
- Cultura política, doctrina jurídica i govern a Catalunya i València (segles XVI-XVIII)
- Cultural transfers and government practices in the shaping of the Iberian monarchies of the Early Modern period (1580-1715)
- The viceroyal courts in the Mediterranean world: power and representation in the Early Modern period
- Multiple identities: circulation of people and exchange of knowledge between Italy and Spain, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Political theory, law and rule in Catalonia and Valencia (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)
- The Catalan urban network in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Power and representation in the Early Modern period: the Hispanic Monarchy as a cultural field (1500-1800)
- Day to day life in the Hispanic Monarchy of the Early Modern period. Catalonia and Barcelona.
The viceroyal courts in the Mediterranean world: power and representation in the Early Modern period
Consolidated Research Group. Generalitat de Catalunya
Ref. 2009SGR1214
Introduction:
This group intends to develop an analysis of the viceroyal system of government in the Hispanic Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, beginning with the example of Catalonia before more widely observing the diverse Mediterranean territories of which it was composed (Valencia, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia). We aim to go beyond the heretofore predominant institutional analysis in studies of this topic, applying a cultural perspective to the concept of viceroyoral courts, considering these the empire’s principal elements of articulation.
In this manner, we hope to measure the capacity for resistance exhibited by previous forms of government subjected to a powerful hegemonising pressure. Taking this into account, ours hopes to be an investigation into the management of complex, composite political systems: that is, into the relationship between unity and diversity in the great systems of power.
Principal researcher:
Joan Lluís Palos Peñarroya
Members:
- Joan Lluís Palos Peñarroya
- Ernest Belenguer i Cebrià
- Francesco Manconi
- Mafalda Soares Cunha
- Xavier Baró i Queralt
- Diana Carrió-Invrnizzi
- Jordi Buyreu Juan
- Joana Ribeirete Fraga
- Pilar Sarrias
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