Historical Analysis of the Catalan Identity

Flocel Sabaté is professor of Medieval History in the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), member of Institut d’Estudis Catalans and related to the academies of History of Spain, France and the United States. He has served as invited professor at the universities of Paris-I, Poitiers, México, Yale and Cambridge, and is doctor honoris causa by the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina).

• Contents: Joandomènec Ros: Preface – Flocel Sabaté: Catalonia among the Longstanding Regions of Europe – Flocel Sabaté: The Medieval Roots of Catalan Identity – Antoni Simon: The Centuries Ushering in Modernity: Identity, State and Nation – Antoni Simon: «Catalans and Spaniards»: Two Peoples Chosen for a Single Promised Land – Ignasi Fernández: Catholics and Catalans: Religion in Catalan Identity in the 16th and 17th Centuries – Òscar Jané: France and the Formation of Political and Social Identities in 17th Century Catalonia – Cristian Palomo: Catalan National Identity in the 18th Century: The War of the Spanish Succession and the Bourbon Regime – Jordi Casassas: The Contemporary World: A Increasingly Noticeable Distinct Identity – David Cao: Catalonia: Unique Consciousness and Collective Identity in the First Half of the 18th Century: Notes and Consideration – Giovanni C. Cattini: The Advent and Politicisation of a Unique Catalan Identity (1860-1898) – Jordi Casassas: What Made Catalonia Unique (1901-1939) – Carles Santacana: Catalan Identity in the Years of a Spanishist Dictatorship – Josep Moran/Joan Anton Rabella: The language: vehicle for transmission of Catalan Identity throughout History – Tomàs de Montagut: A Survey of the Legal History of Catalonia and its Historical Rights – Xavier Barral: Architecture, Power and Identity in Medieval Catalonia: Identity-based Challenges when Recovering and Re-creating.