Españolismo y catalanidad en la historiografía catalana decimonónica

Abstract

The modern historiographic raisings had arisen in the first decades of the XlXth century on a parallel way to the appearance of the nationalisms. In a first instance. The Catalan historiography replied to the social request of a sector which had not forgotten the components if differenciate community, in order to make known several studies which proposed the identification of the old liberties with the ones originated in the liberal constitutionalism to make them more attractive. The desarticulation of Spain, recognised from circles close to power made easy the territorial pride. The first general histories would avoid the identification in the past and in its present of Castilia as Spain, in a double will to contribute to an state more plural and to defend an structure more or less federalist. At the end of the century, the implantation of catalanism had urged a new historiography exclusively centred in Catalonia. The materials furnished by historian were used in every kind of speeches, which at the same time reinterpreted them. Here is offered an approach to those pronounced in the Floral Games, the most important cultural platform of the Renaissance.