Au cours de l’été 1945, si les élites politiques et militaires du Japon s’accrochaient officiellement à la poursuite des hostilités et au refus de la reddition inconditionnelle, en coulisse, elles travaillaient à faire face aux conséquences inéluctables de la défaite, et notamment à sauver la lignée impériale de la menace alliée. L’armée de terre e...
The newborns of the House of Austria were swaddled with bands of cloth in order to avoid bone malformations. For the execution of this inmemorial practice, the royal seamstresses and lacemakers prepared the necessary clothing a few weeks before birth. The requirement to show the royal condition of newborn princes and princesses led to the inclusion...
The theatre as a gathering place used to serve the ancient city’s operational needs. For this reason, it was built in direct or indirect relation to the public center. In monarchical states it was related to the palace as it served the kingship. The gradual development of this connection is observed in the cases of Vergina, Pergamon and Alexandria ...
Historically, historiography has focused on the fiscal freedoms of the Castilian cities as a projection of the complex debate about what the structure of the State should be and how the relations between the central power and the local powers should be articulated. Beyond these considerations, which in their extreme positions have come to exalt or ...
This article argues that in the Elements of philosophy of Right it is possible to find inherent ideas of the Iusnaturalism practiced in the French Revolution: liberty, equality, private property and general will. What is explained in four points. In the first, the background of the French Revolution in the early work of Hegel’s shows. In the second...
The principal aim of this article is the analysis of the representation – in textual form – of one of the most emblematic building of Medieval Church, like the cathedral, within the official chronicles of Iberian kingdoms during the Hundred Years War and the Western Schism. Our focus will be on the three main aspects of this representation: cathedr...
In the first decades of the 19th century, a series of objects and publications were used, from a «performative» perspective, as forms and uses of the image inserted in the power dispute, which marked the decline of the empire Spanish in Chile and the birth of a new nation. In this context, a large part of these objects were not conceived as artisti...
This article explores the gendered dimensions of the Belgian monarchy by focusing on three distinct topics. First, the article addresses the matter of succession to the throne. In Belgium, the exclusion of women from succeeding to the monarchy came to an end in 1991, but the first female monarch has yet to ascend to the throne. Next, the article ex...
Purpose: Demonstrate that social networks are a new source of leadership, power and authority, through the study of Lady Amelia Windsor’s Instagram account. Design / Methodology / Approach: Diachronic, quantitative and qualitative study of a corpus of 119 posts on Instagram, from May 2019 to May 2020. Results: 84 % of posts include at least one pro...
Los documentos de valor (monedas, sellos, billetes) portan imágenes con referentes identitarios. A través de ellos circula entre la población un discurso político que remite a la nación, la república, la monarquía, el imperio, Europa, etc. Este artículo se propone estudiar este fenómeno en relación con la fijación de una imagen de la nación asociad...
