Nacer para todo. Notas para una historia de la autoría nobiliaria ibérica altomoderna
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2019
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Martínez Hernández, S., 'Nacer para todo. Notas para una historia de la autoría nobiliaria altomoderna', Cuadernos de Historia Moderna 44.2 (2019), 295-344.
Abstract
La nobleza continúa siendo para el historiador de la alta Edad Moderna un magnífico observatorio para el estudio de numerosos aspectos de la cultura europea. Polémicas historiográficas aparte, la república de las letras y la revolución científica, así como la renovación artística, pueden ser leídas en clave nobiliaria. El protagonismo de la nobleza en estos ámbitos no solo atendió a su relevante participación como promotores, protectores o mecenas, sino a la expresión autorial. Estas páginas se plantean, pues, con el único objetivo de proponer un acercamiento al fenómeno de la autoría y el genio nobiliarios en los siglos XVI y XVII. Los nobles fueron capaces de generar modelos propios de mecenazgo –distintos a los regios–, y de expresarse como autores en ámbitos tan diversos como la poesía, la arquitectura, la pintura, la anticuaria, el dibujo o la música.
For the early modern historian, the study of the aristocracy remains a magnificent field for the examination of a wide variety of aspects of European culture. Leaving aside historiographical polemics, the study of the nobility sheds light on the Republic of Letters, the Scientific Revolution and artistic renewal and renovation. The protagonism of aristocrats in these fields not only illustrates their activities as promotors, protectors and patrons but also tells us of their own authorship. The following pages aim to elucidate the general phenomena of authorship and the involvement of nobles in these fields in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats generated models of patronage that were distinct from those of royal patrons; they demonstrated their capacity to express themselves as authors in a wide variety of arts such as poetry, painting, antiquarianism, drawing or music.
For the early modern historian, the study of the aristocracy remains a magnificent field for the examination of a wide variety of aspects of European culture. Leaving aside historiographical polemics, the study of the nobility sheds light on the Republic of Letters, the Scientific Revolution and artistic renewal and renovation. The protagonism of aristocrats in these fields not only illustrates their activities as promotors, protectors and patrons but also tells us of their own authorship. The following pages aim to elucidate the general phenomena of authorship and the involvement of nobles in these fields in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats generated models of patronage that were distinct from those of royal patrons; they demonstrated their capacity to express themselves as authors in a wide variety of arts such as poetry, painting, antiquarianism, drawing or music.