La crisis del modelo cortesano: el nacimiento de la conciencia europea

Madrid : Ediciones Polifemo, 2017.

Volosyuk O. V., Rivero Rodríguez M., Ezquerra Revilla I., Molas Ribalta P., Pérez Samper M. d., Rivero A., Rodríguez Contreras M.

Compiler: M. Rivero Rodríguez

This book deals with the study of the court system during the XVII-XVIII centuries, which is not considered as the beginning of a new era, but as the end of a way of living and understanding the world. With these premises, the crisis of the values that underpinned the court system and the birth of a new social and political order is studied. A new approach to the traditional interpretation of the crisis of the Old Regime and the origin of the Contemporary Age is used.

Chapters

Los rusos contra la leyenda negra: España de Carlos III vista por los diplomáticos de San Petersburgo

Volosyuk O. V., , in: La crisis del modelo cortesano: el nacimiento de la conciencia europea.: Madrid: Ediciones Polifemo, 2017. P. 353–378.

In the eighteenth century Russian cultural information on Spain was scarce and came from books of European authors, mainly Protestant, translated into Russian, which had the anti-Hispanic character, based on the "black legend". The "hommes des Lumières" also built the idea of Spain as a country that came to complete decay which would be never ...

Added: May 14, 2017

Keywords: Испания, монархия, monarchy, history of Spain