Guerra y violencia en un dietario del Barroco. Joseph Monfar y Sorts y la sociedad catalana del Seiscientos

Antonio Espino López

doi:10.70794/hs.107805

Authors

Antonio Espino López Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2856-3035

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.107805

Keywords:

Personal diary, Catalonia, Seventeenth century, Public opinion, War, Violence, Josep Monfar

Abstract

The diary of the honoured citizen of Barcelona and doctor of Arts and Laws Josep Monfar y Sorts (1631-1696), which covers the years 1683 to 1687, is a good example of personal memory, but also of an attempt to preserve certain news about his hometown, Barcelona, in the manner of an institutional chronicle. In this work we have focused on two of the aspects in which the diary stands out: urban violence and war. Monfar had the success of preserving for posterity a whole series of news about the violence, civil and military, that agitated the society of his time, but also numerous news about the Royal Army of Catalonia, which can be contrasted and complemented with other types of sources, at a time when public opinion began to be fed by all kinds of warnings, news and rumors.

Author Biography

Antonio Espino López, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Professor of Modern History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is a specialist in the History of War in the Modern Era and, lately, he has focused his work on the violence exercised in the conquest of America. In recent years he has published La frontera marítima de la Monarquía. La Marina de Carlos II (Madrid, 2019); Fronteras de la Monarquía. Guerra y defensa en tiempos de Carlos II (Lérida, 2019) y Vencer o morir. Una historia militar de la conquista de México (Madrid, 2021). Su último libro es La invasión de América (Barcelona, 2022).