Una Aproximació a la crisi de la baixa edat mitjana a Catalunya

Abstract

An examination of the crisis of the Late Middle Ages in Catalonia reviews the differing interpretations of this period, including the concept of crisis per se because there have been huge, almost opposed changes in perspective regarding this period over the last fifty and a bit years. And if, at that time, crisis was seen as a long period that was difficult to resolve and with a scope that covered almost all historical areas, now this problem has become a lot shorter. Because now it tends to be seen as a necessary parenthesis, no matter how tough or more or less drawn out it may be. Nevertheless, it is a period after which an economic, social and cultural renaissance came to Europe and also to Catalonia, in spite of the fact that, here, the Civil War of 1462-1472 and its later consequences delayed the progress that was so desired. For this reason, this paper underlines the work of those essential historians studying the Catalan crisis, either in terms of its economic or social aspects, its political or institutional aspects or even in a small epilogue. One which adds the later arrival, in certain royal courts and bureaucratic places, of a Castilian language that gradually penetrated Catalonia, presided over by the burgeoning aura of the Castilian crown and kingdom and with indirect support from the nascent Spanish Inquisition of 1478.