Pedagogía de la desmemoria

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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Després que el papa Bonifaci VII enfeudés a Jaume II el regne de Sardenya, l'illa entra en l'òrbita política catalano-aragonesa a principis del segle xiv. El vincle amb la Corona d'Aragó es reforça a mitjan segle xv, però sobretot són les reformes de Ferran el Catòlic les que modernitzen Sardenya i preludien la integració polític-institucional del regne en la Monarquia composta dels Àustries. Després de sofrir la controvertida destinació de la política imperial de Carles V, la voluntat política de Felip II determina, en la segona meitat del xvi, la consolidació definitiva de...

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