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    Proclamar la autoridad, afirmar el poder, seducir al pueblo: una reflexión sobre la comunicación política en los antiguos Países Bajos Borgoñones

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    La corte de los Valois de Borgoña en los últimos siglos de la Edad Media se muestra experta en comunicación política. Despliega numerosos medios (ceremonias, procesiones, cartas leídas públicamente, peregrinación del príncipe, sermones) para anunciar, seducir y convencer a un pueblo de orígenes variados, que reside en un territorio desestructurado y sin capital efectiva. Lejos de referir un simple repertorio de los medios de comunicación desplegados en el principado, el artículo privilegia la percepción temporal (pasado, presente y proyección futura) para comprender las sutilezas y los límites de esta vasta empresa de comunicación simbólica que busca antes que nada, afirmar la legitimidad del poder del príncipe. Apoyándose en la tradición ancestral real o ficticia de sus representantes, exhibiendo con refinamiento el cuerpo del príncipe, jugando con el registro de la comunión afectiva, esta comunicación política se reveló particularmente sutil pero finalmente poco eficaz en relación con una construcción estatal inconclusa. La ausencia de un proyecto común que uniese a príncipes y súbditos explica sin duda el fracaso de este brillante despliegue de las fuerzas borgoñonas que en realidad trabajaron más por la construcción del mito del Estado borgoñón que por su anclaje en la realidad de su tiempo.During the closing centuries of the Middle Ages, the court of Valois Burgundy displayed expert skills in political communication. Many expedients were used (ceremonies, processions, the public reading of letters, the prince's pilgrimage, sermons) in order to inform, seduce and convince a multicultural people who lived in a fragmented territory with no real capital. This paper, however, is not a simple catalog of communication procedures employed in the principality. Instead it prioritizes a time-bound perception of the issue (past, present and future projection) in an attempt to understand the subtleties and the limits of this vast enterprise of symbolic communication whose overarching goal was to assert the legitimacy of the princely power. By evoking a real or fictitious ancestry, staging with refinement the body of the prince and promoting emotional communions, this political communication showed itself particularly subtle, yet on the whole not very effective due to the ultimate inability to shape a State. The absence of a common project shared by princes and subjects can most probably explain the failure of this brilliant deployment of the Burgundian media. Indeed, the latter proved more effective in forging the myth of the Burgundian State than in anchoring it in a time-bound reality

    Le temps de la fête : avant-propos

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    À Hatun Sawsa, dans la Cordillère des Andes, la capitale provinciale s’enfle et se vide au rythme des festivités qui y sont organisées et qui honorent l’Éclair et le Soleil, tout en magnifiant le pouvoir de l’Inca. Dans cette civilisation haut perchée du xve siècle, qui se développe aux portes du panthéon céruléen, il est des villes qui ne doivent leur existence qu’aux solennités qui les animent, articulant parfaitement temps et espace, les deux données fondamentales de cette moisson d’études..

    Revisiting Presentism

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    This essay explores the pertinence of the present as a temporal category in the late medieval and early modern period. After a historiographical overview of scholarship on presentism and reflections on the complex notion of ‘present’, we present three case studies to explore how the experience of the present could be discerned and studied in literature, visual arts, and news media. The first case study focuses on the increasing emphasis on the present in the Gruuthuse manuscript and rederijker plays. Secondly, an examination of depictions of the breach of the Sint Anthonisdijk in 1651 shows different ways in which Dutch landscape painters engaged with the present. The final case study discusses how the spread of the northern invention of printed newsletters stimulated a wider interest in the present ‘elsewhere’ in apparent peripheric locations like Geneva. Drawing on these cases, we reflect on the relation between crises and presentism and suggest that the manner in which time, and the present in particular, was experienced in north-western Europe seems to be distinctly different from the relation to time of people in Renaissance Italy

    Le royaume inachevé des ducs de Bourgogne, Paris, Belin

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