Catalonia and Portugal

The Iberian Peninsula from the periphery

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• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783035108309
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: History

Between 2010 and 2013 the European Science Foundation project «Cuius Regio» undertook a study of the reasons for cohesion of some European regions, including the analysis of the ways for cohesion of two peripherical Iberian entities: Portugal and Catalonia. A scientific meeting held in Lleida in 2012 facilitated the collection of contributions from outstanding researchers in order to analyse how specific identities in the periphery of the Iberian Peninsula were created in the Middle Ages and how they evolved until the 19 th century. History, Literature and Language are being discussed in this book in order to understand the reasons for creating specific territorial identities and also to compare their different evolutions, that have resulted in different political realities in our current times.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• The Spain that never was: The Iberian Peninsula from its Peripheries (Flocel Sabaté and Luís Adão da Fonseca)
• La conquista musulmana del noreste hispano. Supuestos y consecuencias (Luis A. García Moreno)
• Écriture diplomatique et mémoire documentaire aux origines de l’histoire catalane (Michel Zimmermann)
• The process of scripturising Catalan (Josep Moran and Joan Anton Rabella)
• Cries of Abuse and Injustice in Early Catalan: Notes on the Language of the Rancures, Clams and Querimònies (11th and 12th Centuries) (Philip D. Rasico)
• Political Origins of Portugal. From County to Kingdom (1096-1143/1157) (José Augusto de Sottomayor-Pizarro)
• Architecture and Identity (Lúcia Rosas)
• Cuius Generalis: The erudite notion of Justice in the Crown of Aragon and Catalonia (12th-18th Centuries) (Tomàs de Montagut)
• The myth of the origins and royal power in the late medieval Crown of Aragon (Stefano Maria Cingolani)
• Historiography and Portuguese identity: How in Medieval Portugal the kingdom is seen through the eyes of the Iberian Peninsula (Luís Adão da Fonseca and Paula Pinto Costa)
• The perception of the Iberian Peninsula from the periphery: Portugal in the fifteenth century (Maria Cristina Pimenta)
• Nuns on the Periphery? Irish Dominican Nuns and assimilation in Lisbon (Andrea Knox)
• The word Espanya (“Spain”) in 15th and 16th Century Catalan literature (Vicent Josep Escartí)
• The concept of Spain in Catalan and Hispanic political thought from the era of reason of state (Antoni Simon)
• How “new” is the “New Monarchy”? Clashes between princes and nobility in Europe’s Iron Century (Robert von Friedeburg)
• Portugal unido, y separado. Propaganda and the discourse of identity between the Habsburgs and the Braganza (Pedro Cardim)
• National history, own language and otherness: Catalonia in the 16th-18th Centuries (Eulàlia Miralles)
• Uses of the Medieval Past in the Political Culture of 19th Century Catalonia (Giovanni C. Cattini and David Cao)
• Historical Reference in the 19th Century Portuguese Discourse (Maria da Conceição Meireles Pereira)
• Re-imagining the State: Pan-Iberianism and Political Interventionism in the Context of Catalan Nationalism (Òscar Costa)
• Iberian identities – some final remarks (Dick E. H. de Boer)