Browsing by Subject "Spanish monarchy"

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    Maquiavelo en Saavedra Fajardo (Las sombras de la virtud)
    (2015-09-23) Hermosa Andújar, Antonio
    Unintentionally, Saavedra develops his political doctrine, even from the election of the political subject itself, as opposed to the guidelines stated by Machiavelli. The immanent presence of ethics and religion as active parts of the above mentioned doctrine indicates so. However, in describing the behaviour the Spanish monarch should pursue in a political sphere, Saavedra discovers and ends up owning that spheres considered complementary at first, have become antagonistic. And by accepting how politics sometimes survive only by infringing the dictates of ethics, he ends up becoming as well another member of Machiavelli's large critical wake turned loyal disciples at the end.
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    Una monarquía sin razón....de estado: Los escritos tardíos de Jean Boucher
    (2015-09-23) Ruiz Ibáñez, José Javier
    In this work, the author presents an analysis of the writings of the French catholic theorist, defender of the alliance between the Spanish monarchy and the French monarchy, Jean Boucher, written in his years of exile in Flanders. The author shows as well that Boucher belonged to a time stratus characteristic of the old medieval theory of the king as sword at the disposal of the Church, exclusively legitimated by the church concession of his mission and directly -not indirectly- subjected to the spiritual power. In this way, the survival of this medieval understanding of the two swords until the beginning of modernity can be understood.