Don Luis de Haro-more precisely, Don Luis M endez de Haro y Guzm an, the sixth Marquis of Carpio-... more Don Luis de Haro-more precisely, Don Luis M endez de Haro y Guzm an, the sixth Marquis of Carpio-is a name all historians of early modern Spain would quickly recognize. After all, as the royal favourite he was the central figure in the court of king Philip IV from the fall in 1643 of his predecessor (and uncle) the Count-Duke of Olivares to his death in 1661. That the same scholars would likely scratch their collective head if pressed to say anything more about him would not have surprised him. One of the many ways by which he sought to distance himself from his highly unpopular kinsman was by deliberately maintaining a much lower public profile. His greater subtlety in calling attention to himself is in fact one of the reasons why until quite recently so few studies have been undertaken of one of the leading figures in such a significant juncture in early modern Hispanic history. During the nearly two decades of his pre-eminence the Monarchy had to cope not only with the escalating conflict with France that marked the final phase of the Thirty Years' War, but also with full-scale revolts in Portugal, Catalonia, and Naples. That the Spanish empire managed to contain its losses despite its resources being taxed to the breaking point speaks not only to Haro's political skills. It also highlights the resilience of a political system whose deeper strengths have only recently begun to receive the attention that they deserve. This system, more than the man who oversaw it, is the true protagonist of Alistair Malcolm's thoroughly researched and consistently intelligent study. Valimiento, or indirect rule by a favourite, was an approach to governance with a problem built in from its very inception: that of the legitimacy of a form of rule in which the monarch delegated powers of decision-making that were in theory reserved to him alone. What the king and certain others saw as providing crucial assistance with the daily operations of the increasingly complex engine of imperial governance was easily read by others as self-interested usurpation of royal authority. This far from unique situation generated a revealing corpus of casuistry both pro and con, which the author explores as he sets the stage in the opening third of the book. He then turns in the middle portion to how this rather opaque system of shared governance actually worked on the domestic front. Malcolm stresses here the insecurity the seemingly all-powerful valido suffered within a political environment-especially that of the central kingdom, Castile-that was on the whole surprisingly stable. The final section shifts the reader's attention to the intricacies of foreign policy. It begins by emphasizing Haro's initial skill in masking his fundamental support for the bellicose policies that had contributed to Olivares' fall from office, and ends with a string of failures that nevertheless did not prevent Spain's surprising diplomatic V
En este trabajo se pasa revista a tres centros de prestigio lingüístico (Toledo, Madrid y Sevilla... more En este trabajo se pasa revista a tres centros de prestigio lingüístico (Toledo, Madrid y Sevilla), utilizando el concepto del prestigio abierto para explicar, por ejemplo, la rapidez con que se establece en Madrid una nueva norma lingüística a partir de 1561, así como para arrojar algo de luz sobre la pugna que se libra en el Nuevo Mundo entre esta norma y la de Sevilla. Las conclusiones principales a las que se llega son: (1) que hay razones suficientes para aventurar que la nueva norma madrileña de prestigio es, en realidad, la norma cortesana vallisoletana trasplantada a Madrid cuando Felipe II decide fijar la sede de su corte en esta ciudad; y (2) que el castellano que hablan los sevillanos cultos tiene prestigio abierto y que, por lo tanto, la pugna que se realiza en los virreinatos del Nuevo Mundo es, en gran parte, una lucha entre dos tipos de castellano con prestigio. En otras palabras, reconocer el prestigio abierto del habla de los sevillanos cultos permite esclarecer asp...
En julio de 1659, D. Luis Mendez de Haro y Guzman, valido del rey Felipe IV, abandona Madrid para... more En julio de 1659, D. Luis Mendez de Haro y Guzman, valido del rey Felipe IV, abandona Madrid para reunirse con el cardenal Mazarino a fin de rematar el tratado preliminar de la paz ajustado poco antes en la capital francesa. En este texto, se pretende hacer tres cosas en relacion con la jornada de D. Luis: describir, a grandes rasgos, el proceso de ratificacion del tratado de Paris por Espana, asi como sus implicaciones para la comision que Haro lleva a la frontera; pasar revista al encuentro de ambas potencias en el Bidasoa, subrayando la rivalidad que dicho encuentro genera sobre todo en el ambito del ceremonial; y, en tercer lugar, ofrecer una valoracion de la actuacion de Haro tanto al negociar los puntos que el tratado de Paris ha dejado pendientes de resolucion como al procurar renegociar los capitulos de dicho tratado considerados indecorosos. El eje vertebral del texto, claro esta, es la rivalidad que la conclusion de la paz produce, por un lado, entre Haro y el duque de Med...
I n three ofthe early sections of the Libro de bum amor,] nan Ruiz explains to his public how, fo... more I n three ofthe early sections of the Libro de bum amor,] nan Ruiz explains to his public how, for various reasons, he is conditioned to love women. In stanzas 71-76 he uses the unimpeachable authority of Aristotle to argue that men and animals are biologically determined to seck 'juntamicnto con fcobra plazentera' (51. 71 d), 1 and since he is a man like any other, it is natural, perhaps even inevitable, that from time to time he too should feci the attraction of the opposite scx. 2 Paraphrasing St Paul (I Thessalonians 5.'2 I), the Archpriest tells us rather cheekily that onc must taste things in order to be in a position to decide whether they arc good or bad. Only then can one reject what is bad and retain what is good. In stanzas 105-14,juan Ruiz cites Solomon as his authority and discusses the theme of'vanidar'. Whereas for Solomon it is futile (a 'vanidat') to seek the things of this world, for the Archpriest demonstrable futility ('vanidat provada') lies in courting a lady who has no desire to be courted. As hededares: 'Partfmede su pleito, pues de mi es redrada' (st. 106d). Since, however, God never intended man to be alone, and created woman to be his companion, Juan Ruiz, having lost one love, feels entitled to go in search of anOlher. There then follows the 'troba eal;urra' rdating the Archpriest's attempt to usc Ferrand Garda's services as a go-between to win the love ofCruz. The next section tells the story of King Alcaraz's son. The King summons astrologers to his court because he wishes to know what the stars hold in store for his recently-born son. Five astrologers 'de mas conplido saber' (Sl. 130b) predict that Alcaraz's son will die, although they each predict a different cause ofdeath: that he will be 'apedreado', 'quemado', 'despeiiado', 'colgado', 'afogado'. In view of their apparent lack of agreement ('juieios desacordados' (st. 132a)), the King orders them to be cast into prison. It seems clear to him that the varied predictions of the astrologers all have to be wrong: 'dio todos sus juizios par mintrosos provados' (Sl. 132d). Time passes, and one day the young prince goes hunting with his tutor. Care is taken to select a fine day for the outing since the tutor is mindful of the predictions of the astrologers. Not everyone, it seems, shares the incredulity of Alcaraz. As it happens, the weather takes a turn for the worse. There is a hailstorm, the prince is struck by a bolt of lightning, he falls from a bridge, his clothes are caught on the branch of a tree and, finally, he is drowned in a river. All five predictions turn out to be correct. Now, the interpretation of this episode is rather less straightforward than that of the two sections just discussed. It has been argued, not unpcrsuasively, that the 1 Quotations from the text lIrc fmm Arciprcste de Hita, Libro d, burn QlIlIJr, edited by Albeno Btecua (Barcdona, [983). 2 Thc importance of punctuation in dr.termining meaning is correctly stressed in D, Ctotelle Clarke, 'Sacerdotal Celibacy and the Archpriest's Vision', Sw.dits in I/Qnat~fJahn Estm Ktlltr, editcd by Joseph R. Jones (Newark, Delaware, [980), t03-t~(p. 104, n. 4). However, none of the potential readings which Clarke olTers ofsranza 76a alTects [he substance of Illy argument
I n three ofthe early sections of the Libro de bum amor,] nan Ruiz explains to his public how, fo... more I n three ofthe early sections of the Libro de bum amor,] nan Ruiz explains to his public how, for various reasons, he is conditioned to love women. In stanzas 71-76 he uses the unimpeachable authority of Aristotle to argue that men and animals are biologically determined to seck 'juntamicnto con fcobra plazentera' (51. 71 d), 1 and since he is a man like any other, it is natural, perhaps even inevitable, that from time to time he too should feci the attraction of the opposite scx. 2 Paraphrasing St Paul (I Thessalonians 5.'2 I), the Archpriest tells us rather cheekily that onc must taste things in order to be in a position to decide whether they arc good or bad. Only then can one reject what is bad and retain what is good. In stanzas 105-14,juan Ruiz cites Solomon as his authority and discusses the theme of'vanidar'. Whereas for Solomon it is futile (a 'vanidat') to seek the things of this world, for the Archpriest demonstrable futility ('vanidat provada') lies in courting a lady who has no desire to be courted. As hededares: 'Partfmede su pleito, pues de mi es redrada' (st. 106d). Since, however, God never intended man to be alone, and created woman to be his companion, Juan Ruiz, having lost one love, feels entitled to go in search of anOlher. There then follows the 'troba eal;urra' rdating the Archpriest's attempt to usc Ferrand Garda's services as a go-between to win the love ofCruz. The next section tells the story of King Alcaraz's son. The King summons astrologers to his court because he wishes to know what the stars hold in store for his recently-born son. Five astrologers 'de mas conplido saber' (Sl. 130b) predict that Alcaraz's son will die, although they each predict a different cause ofdeath: that he will be 'apedreado', 'quemado', 'despeiiado', 'colgado', 'afogado'. In view of their apparent lack of agreement ('juieios desacordados' (st. 132a)), the King orders them to be cast into prison. It seems clear to him that the varied predictions of the astrologers all have to be wrong: 'dio todos sus juizios par mintrosos provados' (Sl. 132d). Time passes, and one day the young prince goes hunting with his tutor. Care is taken to select a fine day for the outing since the tutor is mindful of the predictions of the astrologers. Not everyone, it seems, shares the incredulity of Alcaraz. As it happens, the weather takes a turn for the worse. There is a hailstorm, the prince is struck by a bolt of lightning, he falls from a bridge, his clothes are caught on the branch of a tree and, finally, he is drowned in a river. All five predictions turn out to be correct. Now, the interpretation of this episode is rather less straightforward than that of the two sections just discussed. It has been argued, not unpcrsuasively, that the 1 Quotations from the text lIrc fmm Arciprcste de Hita, Libro d, burn QlIlIJr, edited by Albeno Btecua (Barcdona, [983). 2 Thc importance of punctuation in dr.termining meaning is correctly stressed in D, Ctotelle Clarke, 'Sacerdotal Celibacy and the Archpriest's Vision', Sw.dits in I/Qnat~fJahn Estm Ktlltr, editcd by Joseph R. Jones (Newark, Delaware, [980), t03-t~(p. 104, n. 4). However, none of the potential readings which Clarke olTers ofsranza 76a alTects [he substance of Illy argument
... Spanish word formation: Productive derivational morphology in the modern lexis. Post a Commen... more ... Spanish word formation: Productive derivational morphology in the modern lexis. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Lang, MF. PUBLISHER: Routledge (London and New York). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1990. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0415041430 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
Don Luis de Haro-more precisely, Don Luis M endez de Haro y Guzm an, the sixth Marquis of Carpio-... more Don Luis de Haro-more precisely, Don Luis M endez de Haro y Guzm an, the sixth Marquis of Carpio-is a name all historians of early modern Spain would quickly recognize. After all, as the royal favourite he was the central figure in the court of king Philip IV from the fall in 1643 of his predecessor (and uncle) the Count-Duke of Olivares to his death in 1661. That the same scholars would likely scratch their collective head if pressed to say anything more about him would not have surprised him. One of the many ways by which he sought to distance himself from his highly unpopular kinsman was by deliberately maintaining a much lower public profile. His greater subtlety in calling attention to himself is in fact one of the reasons why until quite recently so few studies have been undertaken of one of the leading figures in such a significant juncture in early modern Hispanic history. During the nearly two decades of his pre-eminence the Monarchy had to cope not only with the escalating conflict with France that marked the final phase of the Thirty Years' War, but also with full-scale revolts in Portugal, Catalonia, and Naples. That the Spanish empire managed to contain its losses despite its resources being taxed to the breaking point speaks not only to Haro's political skills. It also highlights the resilience of a political system whose deeper strengths have only recently begun to receive the attention that they deserve. This system, more than the man who oversaw it, is the true protagonist of Alistair Malcolm's thoroughly researched and consistently intelligent study. Valimiento, or indirect rule by a favourite, was an approach to governance with a problem built in from its very inception: that of the legitimacy of a form of rule in which the monarch delegated powers of decision-making that were in theory reserved to him alone. What the king and certain others saw as providing crucial assistance with the daily operations of the increasingly complex engine of imperial governance was easily read by others as self-interested usurpation of royal authority. This far from unique situation generated a revealing corpus of casuistry both pro and con, which the author explores as he sets the stage in the opening third of the book. He then turns in the middle portion to how this rather opaque system of shared governance actually worked on the domestic front. Malcolm stresses here the insecurity the seemingly all-powerful valido suffered within a political environment-especially that of the central kingdom, Castile-that was on the whole surprisingly stable. The final section shifts the reader's attention to the intricacies of foreign policy. It begins by emphasizing Haro's initial skill in masking his fundamental support for the bellicose policies that had contributed to Olivares' fall from office, and ends with a string of failures that nevertheless did not prevent Spain's surprising diplomatic V
En este trabajo se pasa revista a tres centros de prestigio lingüístico (Toledo, Madrid y Sevilla... more En este trabajo se pasa revista a tres centros de prestigio lingüístico (Toledo, Madrid y Sevilla), utilizando el concepto del prestigio abierto para explicar, por ejemplo, la rapidez con que se establece en Madrid una nueva norma lingüística a partir de 1561, así como para arrojar algo de luz sobre la pugna que se libra en el Nuevo Mundo entre esta norma y la de Sevilla. Las conclusiones principales a las que se llega son: (1) que hay razones suficientes para aventurar que la nueva norma madrileña de prestigio es, en realidad, la norma cortesana vallisoletana trasplantada a Madrid cuando Felipe II decide fijar la sede de su corte en esta ciudad; y (2) que el castellano que hablan los sevillanos cultos tiene prestigio abierto y que, por lo tanto, la pugna que se realiza en los virreinatos del Nuevo Mundo es, en gran parte, una lucha entre dos tipos de castellano con prestigio. En otras palabras, reconocer el prestigio abierto del habla de los sevillanos cultos permite esclarecer asp...
En julio de 1659, D. Luis Mendez de Haro y Guzman, valido del rey Felipe IV, abandona Madrid para... more En julio de 1659, D. Luis Mendez de Haro y Guzman, valido del rey Felipe IV, abandona Madrid para reunirse con el cardenal Mazarino a fin de rematar el tratado preliminar de la paz ajustado poco antes en la capital francesa. En este texto, se pretende hacer tres cosas en relacion con la jornada de D. Luis: describir, a grandes rasgos, el proceso de ratificacion del tratado de Paris por Espana, asi como sus implicaciones para la comision que Haro lleva a la frontera; pasar revista al encuentro de ambas potencias en el Bidasoa, subrayando la rivalidad que dicho encuentro genera sobre todo en el ambito del ceremonial; y, en tercer lugar, ofrecer una valoracion de la actuacion de Haro tanto al negociar los puntos que el tratado de Paris ha dejado pendientes de resolucion como al procurar renegociar los capitulos de dicho tratado considerados indecorosos. El eje vertebral del texto, claro esta, es la rivalidad que la conclusion de la paz produce, por un lado, entre Haro y el duque de Med...
I n three ofthe early sections of the Libro de bum amor,] nan Ruiz explains to his public how, fo... more I n three ofthe early sections of the Libro de bum amor,] nan Ruiz explains to his public how, for various reasons, he is conditioned to love women. In stanzas 71-76 he uses the unimpeachable authority of Aristotle to argue that men and animals are biologically determined to seck 'juntamicnto con fcobra plazentera' (51. 71 d), 1 and since he is a man like any other, it is natural, perhaps even inevitable, that from time to time he too should feci the attraction of the opposite scx. 2 Paraphrasing St Paul (I Thessalonians 5.'2 I), the Archpriest tells us rather cheekily that onc must taste things in order to be in a position to decide whether they arc good or bad. Only then can one reject what is bad and retain what is good. In stanzas 105-14,juan Ruiz cites Solomon as his authority and discusses the theme of'vanidar'. Whereas for Solomon it is futile (a 'vanidat') to seek the things of this world, for the Archpriest demonstrable futility ('vanidat provada') lies in courting a lady who has no desire to be courted. As hededares: 'Partfmede su pleito, pues de mi es redrada' (st. 106d). Since, however, God never intended man to be alone, and created woman to be his companion, Juan Ruiz, having lost one love, feels entitled to go in search of anOlher. There then follows the 'troba eal;urra' rdating the Archpriest's attempt to usc Ferrand Garda's services as a go-between to win the love ofCruz. The next section tells the story of King Alcaraz's son. The King summons astrologers to his court because he wishes to know what the stars hold in store for his recently-born son. Five astrologers 'de mas conplido saber' (Sl. 130b) predict that Alcaraz's son will die, although they each predict a different cause ofdeath: that he will be 'apedreado', 'quemado', 'despeiiado', 'colgado', 'afogado'. In view of their apparent lack of agreement ('juieios desacordados' (st. 132a)), the King orders them to be cast into prison. It seems clear to him that the varied predictions of the astrologers all have to be wrong: 'dio todos sus juizios par mintrosos provados' (Sl. 132d). Time passes, and one day the young prince goes hunting with his tutor. Care is taken to select a fine day for the outing since the tutor is mindful of the predictions of the astrologers. Not everyone, it seems, shares the incredulity of Alcaraz. As it happens, the weather takes a turn for the worse. There is a hailstorm, the prince is struck by a bolt of lightning, he falls from a bridge, his clothes are caught on the branch of a tree and, finally, he is drowned in a river. All five predictions turn out to be correct. Now, the interpretation of this episode is rather less straightforward than that of the two sections just discussed. It has been argued, not unpcrsuasively, that the 1 Quotations from the text lIrc fmm Arciprcste de Hita, Libro d, burn QlIlIJr, edited by Albeno Btecua (Barcdona, [983). 2 Thc importance of punctuation in dr.termining meaning is correctly stressed in D, Ctotelle Clarke, 'Sacerdotal Celibacy and the Archpriest's Vision', Sw.dits in I/Qnat~fJahn Estm Ktlltr, editcd by Joseph R. Jones (Newark, Delaware, [980), t03-t~(p. 104, n. 4). However, none of the potential readings which Clarke olTers ofsranza 76a alTects [he substance of Illy argument
I n three ofthe early sections of the Libro de bum amor,] nan Ruiz explains to his public how, fo... more I n three ofthe early sections of the Libro de bum amor,] nan Ruiz explains to his public how, for various reasons, he is conditioned to love women. In stanzas 71-76 he uses the unimpeachable authority of Aristotle to argue that men and animals are biologically determined to seck 'juntamicnto con fcobra plazentera' (51. 71 d), 1 and since he is a man like any other, it is natural, perhaps even inevitable, that from time to time he too should feci the attraction of the opposite scx. 2 Paraphrasing St Paul (I Thessalonians 5.'2 I), the Archpriest tells us rather cheekily that onc must taste things in order to be in a position to decide whether they arc good or bad. Only then can one reject what is bad and retain what is good. In stanzas 105-14,juan Ruiz cites Solomon as his authority and discusses the theme of'vanidar'. Whereas for Solomon it is futile (a 'vanidat') to seek the things of this world, for the Archpriest demonstrable futility ('vanidat provada') lies in courting a lady who has no desire to be courted. As hededares: 'Partfmede su pleito, pues de mi es redrada' (st. 106d). Since, however, God never intended man to be alone, and created woman to be his companion, Juan Ruiz, having lost one love, feels entitled to go in search of anOlher. There then follows the 'troba eal;urra' rdating the Archpriest's attempt to usc Ferrand Garda's services as a go-between to win the love ofCruz. The next section tells the story of King Alcaraz's son. The King summons astrologers to his court because he wishes to know what the stars hold in store for his recently-born son. Five astrologers 'de mas conplido saber' (Sl. 130b) predict that Alcaraz's son will die, although they each predict a different cause ofdeath: that he will be 'apedreado', 'quemado', 'despeiiado', 'colgado', 'afogado'. In view of their apparent lack of agreement ('juieios desacordados' (st. 132a)), the King orders them to be cast into prison. It seems clear to him that the varied predictions of the astrologers all have to be wrong: 'dio todos sus juizios par mintrosos provados' (Sl. 132d). Time passes, and one day the young prince goes hunting with his tutor. Care is taken to select a fine day for the outing since the tutor is mindful of the predictions of the astrologers. Not everyone, it seems, shares the incredulity of Alcaraz. As it happens, the weather takes a turn for the worse. There is a hailstorm, the prince is struck by a bolt of lightning, he falls from a bridge, his clothes are caught on the branch of a tree and, finally, he is drowned in a river. All five predictions turn out to be correct. Now, the interpretation of this episode is rather less straightforward than that of the two sections just discussed. It has been argued, not unpcrsuasively, that the 1 Quotations from the text lIrc fmm Arciprcste de Hita, Libro d, burn QlIlIJr, edited by Albeno Btecua (Barcdona, [983). 2 Thc importance of punctuation in dr.termining meaning is correctly stressed in D, Ctotelle Clarke, 'Sacerdotal Celibacy and the Archpriest's Vision', Sw.dits in I/Qnat~fJahn Estm Ktlltr, editcd by Joseph R. Jones (Newark, Delaware, [980), t03-t~(p. 104, n. 4). However, none of the potential readings which Clarke olTers ofsranza 76a alTects [he substance of Illy argument
... Spanish word formation: Productive derivational morphology in the modern lexis. Post a Commen... more ... Spanish word formation: Productive derivational morphology in the modern lexis. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Lang, MF. PUBLISHER: Routledge (London and New York). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1990. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0415041430 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
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