Historical Analysis of the Catalan Identity (Identities / Identités / Identidades)

Description

The book derives from an European Science Foundation project about the cohesion of European regions developed between 2010 and 2013. Flocel Sabaté led into this framework a team of fourteen scholars looking for the reason of the cohesion and permanence of Catalonia from Middle Ages to current days. This collective book arrives at an updated explanation, far from neoromantic visions and attentive to social vectors, such as socioeconomical convergence, external and internal perception, social representation, institutional development, creation of a justificative discourse and influence of the law, the language, the art and other cultural items. Cover Contents Preface (Joandomènec Ros) Catalonia among the Longstanding Regions in Europe (Flocel Sabaté) Medieval Roots The Medieval Roots of Catalan Identity (Flocel Sabaté) Modern History The Centuries Ushering in Modernity: Identity, State and Nation (Antoni Simon) “Catalans” and “Spaniards”: Two Chosen Peoples for a Single Promised Land (Antoni Simon) Catholics and Catalans: Religion in Catalan Identity in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Ignasi Fernández Terricabras) France and the Formation of Political and Social Identities in 17th Century Catalonia (Oscar Jané) Catalan National Identity in the 18th Century. The War of the Spanish Succession and the Bourbon Regime (Cristian Palomo Reina) Contemporary History The Contemporary World: An Increasingly Noticeable Distinct Identity (Jordi Casassas) Catalonia: Unique Consciousness and Collective Identityin the First Half of the 19th Century. Notes and Considerations (David Cao Costoya) The Advent and Politicisation of Distinct Catalan Identities (1860-1898) (Giovanni C. Cattini) What Made Catalonia Unique (1901-1939) (Jordi Casassas) Catalan Identity in the Years of a Spanishist Dictatorship (Carles Santacana) Cross-cutting topics The Language: Vehicle for Transmission of Catalan Identity throughout History (Josep Moran and Joan Anton Rabella) A Survey of the Legal History of Catalonia and its Historical Rights (Tomàs de Montagut) Architecture, Power and Identity in Medieval Catalonia: Challenges of Recovering and Re-creating Identity (Xavier Barral I Altet)