Enric Ucelay-Da Cal
UPF

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1344/cercles2016.19.1014

Paraules clau: Victor Balaguer, historiografia catalana, nacionalisme català, Romanticisme y nacionalisme, Romanticisme i història

Resum: Enric Ucelay-Da Cal presents Vìctor Balaguer as a key Romantic historian, who established the canon of Catalan National History.Given the obsessive historicism of Catalan nationalism, this implicitlymakes him a major figure in its logical construction. Ucelay-Da Cal situatesBalaguer in the stream of nineteenth-century historical culture in Europeand the Americas, and presents a broad-based interpretation of Balaguer’srole as a historian by comparison to general historiografic trendsand to political developments.