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Mon travail de thèse porte sur la « Scapigliatura democratica », un mouvement littéraire italien qui se développa à Milan entre les années 60 et 80 du XIXe siècle. Par rapport au plus large mouvement de la « Scapigliatura », la « Scapigliatura democratica » se caractérise par le lien étroit entre littérature et politique qui est à la base de son projet culturel. Mon étude a pour objectif d’analyser ce phénomène de politisation dans la production narrative et journalistique des représentants les plus significatifs du mouvement (Arrighi, Bizzoni, Tronconi, Valera, Cameroni).Après un chapitre introductif sur l’état de l’art concernant ce sujet, la thèse s’articule en deux parties principales. Dans la première, nous avons cherché à donner une description du rapport entre « Scapigliatura » et politique de la fin des années 1850, au moment où le terme « Scapigliatura » paraît pour la première fois dans le fragment signé par Cletto Arrighi La scapigliatura, jusqu’à « La Farfalla » de Angelo Sommaruga, un des derniers journaux liées au mouvement ; en passant aussi par l’expérience cruciale du « Gazzettino Rosa » (1867-1873) de Achille Bizzoni et Felice Cavallotti. Afin d’éviter toute confusion terminologique avec les études critiques précédentes, nous avons privilégié les usages du mot « Scapigliatura » qui venaient de l’intérieur du mouvement, notamment des articles-manifestes à la première personne que l’on retrouve souvent dans les journaux « scapigliati » de l’époque. En ce sens, une des tâches principales de notre travail à été d’évaluer, selon l’auteur ou le journal concerné, l’évolution et le différent degré de politisation du terme.Dans la deuxième partie, en revanche, l’objectif a été d’étudier en parallèle la production littéraire et journalistique du mouvement, en essayant d’en montrer la contiguïté aussi bien au niveau formel qu’au niveau de contenus. L’hypothèse que nous avons voulu vérifier, en particulier, est qu’un même courant « pamphlétaire » (Angenot, La parole pamphlétaire, 1982) traverse l’ensemble de cette production, tous genres littéraires ou pragmatiques confondus. Il en découle que le trait distinctif de la « Scapigliatura democratica » réside moins dans sa configuration artistique ou littéraire que dans sa disposition rhétorique. A cet égard, nous avons montré que même la tendance littéraire du réalisme, majoritaire au sein du mouvement, se caractérise dans son application concrète par la forte influence de catégories éthiques et idéologiques qui sont extralittéraires. Dans le dernier chapitre de cette partie, nous avons mis à l’épreuve cette idée de littérature hybride en analysant quelques-unes parmi les batailles à la fois culturelles et politiques menées par le mouvement tout au long de son activité, comme celles concernant le militarisme, la morale bourgeoise ou la question sociale dans l’univers urbain.En conclusion, nous avons souligné l’importance de la réflexion politique dans la construction de l’identité du mouvement, ainsi que le rôle novateur d’intellectuel-agitateur que les écrivains-journalistes « scapigliati » eurent dans la crise politique et culturelle de l’Italie de premières années après l’Unité. Cela se fit notamment par la proposition d’une littérature de combat qui allait montrer toute sa puissance et sa capacité d’incidence sur la société à partir de la fin du XIXe siècle. / My thesis work focuses on the “Scapigliatura democratica”, an Italian literary movement that developed in Milan between the 60s and 80s of the 19th century. Compared to the broader Scapigliatura movement, the Scapigliatura democratica is characterized by the close link between literature and politics that underlies its cultural project. My research aimed to investigate this phenomenon of politicization in the narrative and journalistic production of the most significant representatives of the movement (Arrighi, Bizzoni, Tronconi, Valera, Cameroni).After an introductory chapter on the state of the art, the thesis is divided into two main parts. In the first, we sought to describe the relationship between “Scapigliatura” and politics, from the late 1850s, when the term “Scapigliatura” first appeared in Cletto Arrighi’s fragment La scapigliatura, to the journal called «La Farfalla» by Angelo Sommaruga, one of the last newspapers linked to the movement; and also passing through the crucial experience of «Gazzettino Rosa» (1867-1873) by Achille Bizzoni and Felice Cavallotti. In order to avoid any terminological confusion with previous critical studies, we favoured the use of the word “Scapigliatura” from within the movement, in particular the articles written in the first person that were often published in the “scapigliati” journals of the time. In this sense, one of the main tasks of our work has been to evaluate, according to the author or journal concerned, the evolution and the different degree of politicization of the term.In the second part, our goal has been to show the contiguity between literary production and the journalistic activity of the movement, both formally and in terms of content. The hypothesis we wanted to verify was, in particular, the presence of some features related to the pamphlet genre (Angenot, La parole pamphlétaire, 1982) in all this production. It follows that the distinctive feature of the “Scapigliatura democratica” lies less in its artistic or literary configuration than in its rhetorical disposition. In this respect, we shown that even the literary trend of realism, which is the majority within the movement, is characterized in its concrete application by the strong influence of extraliterary ethical and ideological categories. In the last chapter of this section, we tested this idea of hybrid literature by analyzing some of the battles, both cultural and political, waged by the movement throughout its activity, such as those concerning militarism, bourgeois morality or the social question.In conclusion, we underlined the importance of political reflection in building the identity of the movement, as well as the innovative role of intellectual-agitator that the “scapigliati” writer-journalists had in Italy’s political and cultural crisis in the first years after Unity. This was done in particular by the proposal of a combat literature, which would show all its power and its capacity to have an impact on society from the end of the 19th century onwards.

The present work deals with the creation of a second Irish Constitution in the history of Irish independence. Replacement of the previous Constitution was motivated by its connection with the controversial Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921. This thesis focuses on the situation in the 20's and 30's of the 20th century, the Irish Free State, when there were internal unrest caused by emergence and recognition of the Constitution 1922 from which the Irish republican on the contrary wanted to break away. Their efforts lasted until the new Constitution in 1937. The work also includes a chapter devoted to the events that preceded the periods, which is primarily devoted. These events were Irish War of Independence and subsequent Civil War. The main part describes the internal situation in the Irish Free State in terms of social, economic and political issues, because all intermingled with each other and lead to the onset political forces that have targeted the country led to the new legislation. An integral part of this work is the preparation and procedure whereby which the Constitution was created. They are also included positive and negative opinions of important personalities of the time. Proposals constitution and amendments laws that gradual way contributed to the final concept of the Constitution 1937 are...

Thesis advisor: Robert K. O'Neill / World War II is regarded as the modern war in which it is easiest to make moral judgments about right and wrong. How could Ireland – a nation more closely tied to its religion than almost any other – have remained on the sidelines while Europe was torn apart in a bloody struggle to save democracy? This paper examines the ways in which the charismatic and savvy leadership of prime minister Eamon de Valera, a man of both pragmatism and principle, the strict war-time censorship which was imposed on the media (specifically the country's proudest, and most pro-British, newspaper, the Irish Times), and the lenses through which the people viewed the war – most notably, that of their Catholic faith – combined to make neutrality a policy which was not just accepted but embraced as a defining step for Ireland as a nation. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2005. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

This study addresses chivalric writing and court culture during the reign of Juan II of Castile and aims to examine the changing chivalric ideal in Castile during this turbulent period of Castilian history. My thesis argues that political crisis in Castile led to a corresponding crisis in Castilian chivalry as commentators at the royal court tried to correct the failings of the Castilian nobility. The study is based around the work of Alonso de Cartagena, an esteemed diplomat, translator and the Bishop of Burgos in the latter years of Juan II’s reign. Like many of his contemporaries, Cartagena lamented Castile’s descent into civil war and felt compelled to take up his pen in response to the drawn swords of the Castilian nobility. His Doctrinal de los caualleros, produced in 1444 at the height of the civil war, was a highly critical look at chivalry and nobility in the Kingdom of Castile. Cartagena’s view of the chivalric ideal was one which was fundamentally shaped by the civil war. This study seeks to set his ideas in their broader context and argues that they should be seen as part of a wider Castilian debate on chivalry and nobility. This debate involved a number of Cartagena’s contemporaries including, Diego de Valera, Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo and the Marquis of Santillana Íñigo López de Mendoza. Cartagena, along with a number of these authors, challenged traditional views on chivalry and nobility and instead argued for a view of knighthood grounded in individual good conduct and personal worth, in place of lineage and inherited status. This study argues that the civil war in Castile paved the way for the development of a rich literature of chivalric reform and facilitated the development of the sort of knightly criticism seen elsewhere in Europe in the later Middle Ages. However, rather than simply being a theoretical discussion, the civil war and unique social pressures on the Iberian Peninsula made the debate highly relevant. Chivalry became a vehicle for political criticism and reform. For Cartagena and his contemporaries, chivalric writing offered a means of ending the civil war by addressing what they saw as endemic issues with the rebellious Castilian nobility. My work has thus argued for a view of chivalry as a changing and developing body of thought shaped by the intellectual and political context in which it developed. Chivalry was, in essence, a code of military ethics governing conduct on and off the battlefield. However, whilst its basic tenants of virtue, honour, prowess at arms and piety were broadly similar across Europe, how they were understood differed greatly. Rather than seeking an all-encompassing definition, I have argued that the focus should fall on the differences and complexities within chivalric thought.

A partir del examen de documentos inéditos, este artículo muestra que Blas Valera (1545-1597) fue autor de un Arte de la lengua índica, que circulaba en Sevilla en 1595. Sostiene también que Valera puede ser identificado como el director detrás del Arte y vocabulario en la lengua general del Perú, publicado anónimamente en 1586. El estudio reconstruye, además, el contexto intelectual que hizo posible la circulación de la obra de Valera y los criterios filológicos que permitieron insertar su obra en las discusiones sobre las reliquias y libros del Sacro Monte de Granada y sus implicaciones sobre la historia de la iglesia primitiva española.Palabras clave: Blas Valera, Sacro Monte de Granada, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Tercer Concilio de LimaAbstractRelying on unpublished documents, this article maintains that Blas Valera (1545-1597) authored an unknown Arte de la lengua índica that circulated in Seville in 1595. It also argues that Valera can be identified as the single director behind the Arte y vocabulario en la lengua general del Perú that was published anonymously in 1586. In addition, this study reconstructs the intellectual milieu that made the circulation of Valera’s grammar possible and the philological criteria that laid the groundwork for its insertion in the debate regarding the relics and leaden books recently discovered at Granada’s Sacro Monte, and their implications for the history of Spain’s early Church.Keywords: Blas Valera, Sacro Monte de Granada, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima’s Third Council

In this thesis, we sought to understand the use of emotions as a political tool within the context of Spanish History in the 15th century.  Using the theoretical and methodological approach of Emotional History, heavily influenced by Barbara Rosenwein, Piroska Nagy, and Damien Boquet; we go through the royal chronicles written by Diego de Valera and Alonso de Palencia, analyzing the uses of emotions as a way of controlling the narrative of the kingdom.  We see that emotions not only had a complex range of meanings and symbolism attached, but also that these were used to paint the image of monarchs in a brighter or darker light.

El objetivo principal de esta investigación es la reconstrucción histórica del proceso intelectual que explica la aparición del libro Logica in via Scoti (Lima, 1610) de Fr. Jerónimo de Valera, primer testimonio filosófico producido y publicado en América del Sur. La importancia de este texto radica en su primicia americana para la filosofía virreinal y su opción por el pensamiento de Juan Duns Escoto (1266-1308), el célebre filósofo franciscano del siglo XIII. Esta obra marca el inicio de la producción filosófica en el Perú cuya principal centuria fue el siglo XVII con una clara preeminencia filosófica por los temas lógicos y lingüísticos, aspecto que caracteriza principalmente a la filosofía virreinal. En ese sentido, la tesis central de esta investigación se sostiene sobre tres argumentos. En primer lugar, el argumento a favor de la reconstrucción de la historiografía filosófica virreinal. Este permite ubicar la obra del padre Valera en sus reales dimensiones históricas e intelectuales, de modo que la lectura de una repetición del escolasticismo en el Perú se destierra por una perspectiva más acorde a la historia intelectual durante el virreinato. En segundo lugar, el argumento de la primicia franciscana americana que ofrece una lectura novedosa e interconectada de la historia intelectual del franciscanismo de ambas partes del mundo, especialmente toma en cuenta la proyección del escotismo al orbe americano en un contexto de álgidos debates. Finalmente, el tercer argumento es el vínculo de la Logica in via Scoti con la historia de la lógica occidental, especialmente si se tiene en cuenta el contexto histórico peruano en el cual fue producido este libro que priorizó las preocupaciones lógicas y lingüísticas en pos de una nueva perspectiva evangelizadora.

El trabajo de investigación presente ha pretendido establecer conexiones temáticas y formales, pero también divergencias argumentales y estructurales entre el planteamiento de la materia caballeresca medieval y áurea en la Literatura española, y su recuperación renovada a lo largo del pasado siglo XX. La inmanencia de motivos y tópicos permitirá adaptarla formalmente a los géneros históricos, desplegando un recorrido desde el primitivo roman hasta la actual novela, sin olvidar la sólida presencia del romance caballeresco o el influjo que las contemporáneas novela lírica, histórica o bildungsroman han ejercido hasta conferirles plena singularidad. Éste es el objetivo perseguido en el análisis de obras significativas de Juan Valera (Morsamor, 1899), Benjamín Jarnés (Viviana y Merlín, 1930), Álvaro Cunqueiro (Merlín y familia, 1955), Manuel Mujica Láinez (El unicornio, 1965), Paloma Díaz-Mas (La búsqueda del Santo Grial, 1983), Soledad Puértolas (La rosa de plata, 1999) y Ana María Matute (Olvidado Rey Gudú, 1996) / he main proposal of this research has been connecting the ancient chivalry plots with a group of modern Spanish novels, which present interesting and similar points of view, however important differences. It is pretended searching how the materials have been treated in similar ways, as well as how it has been looked for the narrative strategies that have allowed creating singular novels. Historical and lyrical novels, bildungsroman, even tales, will have influenced in these last ones along the past twentieth century.