Llengua i política a la Catalunya del segle XVII. Alexandre Ros i Gomar (1604-1656)

XXXII Premi Ferran Soldevila de biografia, memòries i estudis històrics (2017) condecit per la Fundació Congrés de Cultura Catalana

This book analysis the relations between politics and language in the Catalonia of the 17^th century, especially of the decades of the ‘Guerra dels Segaors’. In the first part, the connection between power, nation and language is examined: it rebuilds the debate generated about this topic in the last four decades and pays attention to the linguistic impacts of the creating process of the modern Spanish State. Unlike linguistic and literary historians who have focused their analysis on linguistic behaviour, this book addresses the guidelines, the actions and the resources which, although they didn’t have a properly linguistic nature, had repercussions in the field of the language. The second part of the book, is dedicated to relevant figure: Alexandre Ros i Gomar, who for his intervention in the ‘battle of the languages’ (Catalan-Castilian) and in ‘War of the papers’ (ideological and propaganda of the ‘Guerra dels Segadors’, as well as for an intense political career, is an interesting case for the investigation of the interrelations among politics, nation and language in Spanish monarchy and the Catalonia of the 17^th century.

Antoni Simon i Tarrés (Girona 1956) is a scholar in modern history in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a member of the Insitut d’Estudis Catalans. Of his most recent publications are notable: Els orígens ideològics de la Revolució Catalana de 1640 (1999), Cròniques de la Guerra dels Segadors (2003), Construccions polítiques i identitats nacionals. Catalunya i els orígens de l’estat modern Espanyol (2005), Pau Claris, líder d’una clase revolucionària (2008), Del 1640 al 1705. L’autogovern de Catalunya i la clase dirigent catalana en el joc de la política internacional europea (2011) and La Bíblia en el pensament polític català i hispànic a l’època de la raó d’estat (2016). He also led the Diccionari d’historiografia catalana (2003).