DUGiDocs"Errades idees" sobre les "coses d'Europa" (i de Catalunya): la publicística de la guerra de la Quàdruple Aliança a les comarques gironines
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“Wrong Ideas” about “Things in Europe” (and
Catalonia): Propaganda in the War of the
Quadruple Alliance in the Region of Girona.
The War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-
1720) is a conflict that is usually overlooked
by the historiography of the 18th century.
Nevertheless, this war, fought between Philip V
of Spain and a coalition of old enemies (Great
Britain, the Dutch Republic, the Holy Roman
Empire) and old allies (the Kingdom of France)
proved to be a decisive episode in European
and Catalan history. Just a few years after the
War of the Spanish Succession, the Principality
of Catalonia became once again the scene of
an international struggle, one which reopened
wounds that were as yet unhealed: the loss or
suppression of the so-called “Catalan liberties”,
the consolidation of the “Nova Planta”, the
resistance against the new monarchy. The
aim of this article is to study the reception of
that war in the Girona region as seen through printed papers and manuscripts that were
circulated in 1719 by both of the opposing
parties. This first approximation to the subject
is based on two documents, one from each
side, which are extremely revealing
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