Power and representation in the Early Modern period: the Hispanic Monarchy as a cultural field (1500-1800)
- Espais connectats al llarg del temps. Catalunya i el món mediterrani en els segles XVII i XVIII
- 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)
- Maneres de viure a l’Espanya moderna: Condicions materials i formes culturals de la quotidianitat
- 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.
Power and representation in the Early Modern period: the Hispanic Monarchy as a cultural field (1500-1800)
Poder i representacions a l’edat moderna: la monarquia hispànica com a camp cultural (1500-1800)
Non-Oriented Fundamental Research Project. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Government of Spain. Ref. HAR2012-39516-C02-01
Introduction:
The aim of our project is to develop an interpretation of the Hispanic Monarchy of the Early Modern period in a cultural key. During recent years, historians have tended to see it first and foremost as a political construct, that is, as the accidental union of territories, highly diverse among themselves, that never came to be fully integrated into a concrete project. We believe this interpretation has notably impeded the comprehension of the reality of the monarchy as a whole. These difficulties of comprehension have frequently led to an identification with the court, thus neglecting its territorial dimension. Our starting hypothesis is that a territory of planetary scope could not be governed without a minimum cultural consensus. Throughout our investigation we will undertake a revision of the main theoretical approaches that have been proposed to interpret the nature of such cultural encounters as acculturation, hybridisation and miscegenation, transculturation and circulation.
Our proposal is to examine, using certain specific examples of these encounters, the possibilities of the concept of the “cultural field” coined by Leo Frobenius and recently reemployed by Thomas DaCosta Kauffman. We understand this cultural field as the space generated by the circulation of people, ideas and artefacts. With this we hope to demonstrate that the limits of the Hispanic Monarchy’s expansion do not correspond so much to its political frontiers as to its area of cultural influence.
Principal researcher: Joan-Lluís Palos
Members:
- Attilio Antonelli
- Francesco Benigno
- Joana Fraga
- Joan-Lluís Palos
- Joan-Pau Rubiés
- Fernando Sánchez Marcos
- Magdalena S. Sánchez
- Verónica Salazar
- Diego Sola
- Paola Volpini
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