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NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE MEMORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES

dc.creatorLUIS MARCELINO ROJAS DONAT
dc.date2021
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T15:20:35Z
dc.date.available2025-01-10T15:20:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractTHE NINETEENTH CENTURY SAW A HIGH POINT IN THE DIALECTICAL CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVILIZATION AND BARBARITY THAT BEGAN WITH THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENLIGHTENED PHILOSOPHERS. THIS OPPOSITION WAS DECIDEDLY NOT NEUTRAL BUT MORAL AND EXERTED A POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY VIEW OF THE RECENT AND MORE DISTANT PAST. THIS REPRESENTED A WORLDVIEW. THE GRAND ASPIRATION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS WAS TO DISOWN BARBARITY AND CREATE A CIVILIZED SOCIETY. THIS REQUIRED CERTAIN IDEALS OF UNITY AND VIRTUOUS CUSTOMS, NONE OF WHICH COULD BE INSTITUTED WITHOUT A SET OF LAWS WISELY AND RIGOROUSLY ADMINISTERED BY A STRONG, CENTRALIZED STATE. IN SUCH AN ENVIRONMENT, HISTORIANS LOOKED BACK TO ANTIQUITY, PARTICULARLY THE ROMAN WORLD, WHERE, THROUGH STUDY OF LAWS, THEY DISCOVERED A SOCIETY ?ARRANGED? BY A ?STATE? THAT ENFORCED THE LAW. TRADITIONAL LEGAL HISTORY HAS CONCERNED ITSELF WITH THE CORRECT APPLICATION OF LAWS AND HAS ATTEMPTED TO DISCOVER THE ?LEGAL STATE? OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES, AN INSTITUTION LIKE THE ONE (THEY BELIEVED) EXISTED BEFORE THE RUIN OF THE WESTERN ROMAN WORLD, WHICH COULD BE FOUND IN THE MODERN WORLD. I INTEND TO LOOK AT THE APPROACH OF A NUMBER OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH HISTORIANS THROUGH ONE EXEMPLARY TOPIC. A CORE ASPECT OF ANY LEGAL QUESTION CONCERNS WAYS OF RESOLVING CONFLICTS AND THROUGH THIS PRISM I WANT TO FOCUS NOT ON ORDEALS, JUDGEMENTS, AND THE LIKE, BUT REVENGE OR FAIDA.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1017/9781641892636.018
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.ubiobio.cl/handle/123456789/11561
dc.languagespa
dc.publisherMEMORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
dc.relation.uri10.1017/9781641892636.018
dc.rightsPUBLICADA
dc.titleNINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE MEMORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES
dc.typeCAPÍTULO DE LIBRO
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ubb.EstadoPUBLICADA
ubb.Otra ReparticionDEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
ubb.SedeCHILLÁN
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