El soporte ideológico de la insurrección carlista

Abstract

The carlist civil war (1833-1840) was a key moment in the long process of making of the counterrevolutionary discourse in Spain whose originsback to the anti-enlightenment reaction in the second half of the eighteen century. The gap between the rank-and-file of the mouvement and the staff of the carlist insurrection produced a break in the common ideology. The ideology of the basis was a remake of the old patterns of conduct, power relations and the cultural heritage of Ancien Regime. Meanwhite, the elite's ideology chaged in a dialectical relation with the revolution. The result was a complex of terms, ideas and concepts shaping the political discourse of the spanish counterrevolution analized the present article.