Discourses of Delegitimisation. Paths of Anti-Spanish Sentiment in Modern Europe

Giovanni Scarpato; Teodoro Tagliaferri

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-387-5

Discourses of Delegitimisation. Paths of Anti-Spanish Sentiment in Modern Europe

Authors

Giovanni Scarpato

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6238-9574

Teodoro Tagliaferri

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0370-6271

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-387-5

Keywords:

Empire, Spanish Empire, delegitimisation, Antispanish sentiment

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 134

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume brings together the proceedings of the conference “Discourses of Delegitimisation”, held at the Department of Political Science of the University of Naples Federico II. The authors of the essays collected here were invited to address a highly significant issue, namely the perception that contemporaries had of the Spanish monarchy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The meaning and function of anti-Spanish sentiment, whose importance has been highlighted in relation to specific aspects, is revisited here with the intention of exploring its relationship with the very idea of imperial power. By tracing an ideal geography of anti-Spanish sentiment, the contributions collected here attempt to answer some crucial questions: What were the causes that fuelled anti-Spanish sentiment? What were the main polemical arguments it used? What factors of real vulnerability did politicians and writers identify in the Spanish machine? And what were the national or territorial differences that emerged between the different areas of that imperial space with regard to these attempts at delegitimisation?

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Author Biographies

Giovanni Scarpato, University of Naples Federico II

Giovanni Scarpato teaches History of Political Thought at the Department of Political Science of the University of Naples “Federico II”. His academic interests focus mainly on the thought of Giambattista Vico and the history of political thought in Italy and France between the 17th and 19th centuries. He has published the following volumes: Giambattista Vico dall’età delle riforme alla Restaurazione. La Scienza nuova tra Lumi e cultura cattolica (1744-1827), Rome, Aracne, 2018; “Verso governi umani”. Politica e storia in Luigi Blanch, Rome, Aracne, 2018; Occasioni di libertà. Percorsi del libertinismo politico tra Italia e Francia, Mimesis, 2024. He edited, with Gennaro Maria Barbuto, the volume Polis e polemos. Giambattista Vico e il pensiero politico, Mimesis, 2022, and with Roberto Evangelista, Dalla “barbarie della riflessione” alla “barbarie del senso”. Vico, la decadenza e il ritorno alle origini), Fedoa, 2025.

Teodoro Tagliaferri, University of Naples Federico II

Teodoro Tagliaferri teaches global history and methodology and history of historiography at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is a member of the Faculty Board of the Doctorate in Global History & Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale and PI of the PRIN 2020 “Myths of legitimation and government of difference in the European imperial regimes during the modern and contemporary age”. His works include La cultura metropolitana e il mito di legittimazione dell’Impero britannico (Naples 2015), La nazione, le colonie, il mondo (Rome 2018), Storia globale: un’ipotesi di concettualizzazione (“Giornale critico di storia delle idee”, 2/2023).