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Publication El Viejo Monarca y Los Nuevos Favoritos: Los Discursos Sobre La Privanza en El Reinado de Felipe II / The old Monarch and the new Favorites: Discourses on the Privanza During Philip II's Reign(1997) Feros, AntonioRESUMEN: Durante el reinado de Felipe II, y especialmente desde comienzos de la década de 1580, se desarrollan una serie de iniciativas por parte del monarca que supondrían la aparición no sólo de nuevas prácticas políticas, sino también la introducción de cambios importantes en los discursos políticos dominantes. Estas iniciativas políticas promovidas durante los últimos años del reinado de Felipe II fueron en parte inspirados por el llamado "nuevo humanismo", el cual asociado a las teorías de la "razón de estado" tenía como punto central de su discurso la necesidad de promover la capacidad de acción independiente de la monarquía, frente a los obstáculos legales y administrativos impuestos por otros miembros del cuerpo político —consejos reales y Cortes—. Algunas de estas iniciativas políticas se basaban en experiencias anteriores (la creación de Juntas, por ejemplo) pero otras eran decididamente nuevas, como lo era el intento de evitar la presencia de facciones cortesanas enfrentadas. Elemento central en este proceso fue la creciente participación en la gobernación cotidiana de la monarquía de los llamados "favoritos del rey", quienes promovieron las teorías y prácticas políticas definidas con anterioridad. Del mismo modo, con la presencia de estos "nuevos favoritos" se inició el desarrollo de un discurso en el cual los favoritos reales aparecían representados como "ministros" del monarca, un discurso que sería plenamente desarrollado en las primeras décadas del siglo XVII bajo las privanzas del Duque de Lerma y el Conde Duque de Olivares. ABSTRACT: During the 1580s and 1590s, Philip II and his close counselors implemented political initiatives which resulted in important changes in the royalist political discourse and in the ways in which politics were conducted. These changes were in part inspired by the political philosophy of reason of state, promoted by the "new humanists", whose central political premise was the need to consolidate and expand the monarchy's right for independent action free of the legal and administrative constrains imposed by other members of the body politic, e.g. royal councils and Cortes. Although Philip II continued to advance initiatives began in the early years of his reign (such as the creation of committees ad hoc, or Juntas), towards the end of his rule he undertook others that were radically new (such as Philip's attempts to avoid the division of the court into conflicting factions). Throughout this period the king's favorites also played an increasing role in the everyday ruling of the monarchy. The merging of what contemporaries believed was a new type of royal favorite encouraged the surge of a political discourse portraying the favorite as the king's minister, and later as the king's principal minister. These developments led to a theoretical revolution which culminated during the first decades of the seventeenth century under the "privanzas" of Lerma and Olivares.Publication Governance (Spain)(2014-01-01) Feros, AntonioPublication Images of Evil, Images of Kings: The Contrasting Faces of the Royal Favourite and the Prime Minister in Early Modern European Political Literature, c. 1580-c. 1650(1999) Feros, AntonioSome three decades years ago, Leicester Bradner examined two distinct views held by seventeenth-century English and Spanish dramatists when writing about royal favourites. Spanish playwrights, Bradner noted, sought to 'arouse sympathy for the king and the friend he loves', while the English stressed 'the issues of good and bad government' by presenting the royal favourite as an evil counsellor and a usurper, and the monarch who let him prosper as a weak ruler. Why these disparate treatments of the royal favourite? This query is particularly poignant when we consider that the English and Spanish dramatists believed that they were confronting a similar political phenomenon. Both knew that the rise of the favourite depended on the monarch's whim and that the favourite's fate was determined by the inexorable turn of the wheel of fortune. And, in both monarchies, playwrights used similar examples to portray the favourite, examples taken from the Old and New Testaments (Joseph, Haman and John the Evangelist), Roman history (Sejanus) and the past of their own countries (favcston in England and Alvaro de Luna in Spain).Publication El Duque de Lerma: Valimiento y Construcción de un Nuevo Paradigma Político(2004-01-01) Feros, AntonioPublication Review of Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World(2003-05-01) Feros, AntonioIn a plenary session of the Spanish Royal Academy of History (April 1776), Francisco Jose Viana y Teran lectured his colleagues about the type of history that the Academy should promote and the role history should play in vindicating the Spanish nation’s past, especially at a time when many European scholars and philosophers were claiming that the Iberian peninsula had isolated itself to prevent the penetration of Enlightened ideas. For Viana, and undoubtedly for many of his colleagues, the vindication of their nation, “unfairly calumniated by foreigners,” required something other than propaganda and apologies. It called for a comprehensive national history proving that Spain had always belonged to a select group of civilized nations and, therefore, was entitled to political autonomy and intellectual respect. The history promoted by the Academy could no longer be the one favored in previous centuries–the recording of the rulers’ exploits. Instead, historians should study “peoples’ customs and mores, the inconstancy of the laws, the influence of the government, the phases of national progress, the vices and preoccupations that made possible our national decline, and what we have to do in order to restore the nation to its previous glory.”Publication Vicedioses, Pero Humanos: El Drama del Rey(1993) Feros, AntonioPublication Twin Souls: Monarchs and Favourites in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain(2003-11-01) Feros, AntonioPublication Historia y Poesía: Monarcas y Favoritos en las Obras de Marlowe y Mira de Amescua(2013-01-01) Feros, AntonioPublication Review of Renato Barahona, Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528–1735(2007-05-01) Feros, AntonioPublication Introducción a Antonio Feros, El Duque De Lerma: Realeza y Privanza en la España de Felipe III(2002-01-01) Feros, AntonioEste libro reconstruye y analiza los contextos sociales, culturales, políticos e intelectuales de la época de Felipe III a través de la carrera de don Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, duque de Lerma, el favorito del rey entre 1598 y 1618. Porque, pese a la marginación historiográfica de este período, el reinado del tercer Felipe resulta crucial para entender el proceso de la constitución de la monarquía hispana. No se trata sin embargo, de una biografía tradicional, sino de nuevas interpretaciones sobre algunos de los temas que siguen atrayendo la atención de los historiadores y del público interesado por la historia: ¿cómo se ejercía el poder en el mundo moderno? ¿cuáles fueron los discursos, conceptos y lenguajes que lo legitimaban? ¿cómo influyó la aparición de favoritos reales en la imagen contemporánea e histórica de los monarcas del siglo XVII, y en las concepciones acerca de la realeza? El estudio de un personaje tan poderoso e influyente como Lerma descubre además cómo un individuo puede provocar profundas transformaciones en los terrenos artístico, cultural, político y social.