Publication: La historia (económica) interminable del tiempo de Cervantes
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2005
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Laureano Figuerola: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
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De generación en generación, el Quijote, heraldo de las esencias patrias, ha sido devotamente releído y reinventado. Del mismo modo, Cervantes y su tiempo fueron recorridos hasta la extenuación por toda suerte de estudiosos dispuestos a arrancar del sepulcro del hidalgo manchego alguna clave explicativa del destino de España. Las páginas que siguen no se aplican a una lectura económica del texto. Desde la que hiciera Piernas Hurtado en 1874 hasta este mismo año, son demasiados los ensayos en tal dirección. Aquí se propone un recorrido alternativo que, partiendo de los doctores salmantinos y a través de los caminos del arbitrismo, de la Ilustración y de la historiografía económica liberal, agota su trayecto en «el tiempo de Pierre Vilar». Al final del viaje no debe desalentar constatar que «todo es según el color del cristal con que se mira»; los progresos ópticos, al corregir las distorsiones de las lentes, acaban por acercar los puntos de vista y suscitar así el acuerdo entre los observadores.
Don Quixote, herald of patriotic essences, has been devotedly read and reinvented generation after generation. Likewise, Cervantes and his time have been studied until exhaustion by all kinds of scholars prepared to snatch a key from the grave of the nobleman from La Mancha, which could explain the destiny of Spain. In the following pages, the text will not be interpreted from the point of view of economics. Since the works of Piernas hurtado to this very year of the celebration of the centenary, a fair amount of essays have been produced from that perspective. An alternative analysis is proposed here which, starting with the School of Salamanca and going through Arbitrismo, Enlightenment and the liberal economic historiography, ends at «the time of Pierre Vilar». At the end of the journey one shouldn’t be disappointed at verifying that «all depends on the colour of the glass you look through at this matter». The advances in optics have adjusted the distortions caused by faulty lenses and have hence brought different points of view closer together. Today there is considerable agreement amongst scholars.
Don Quixote, herald of patriotic essences, has been devotedly read and reinvented generation after generation. Likewise, Cervantes and his time have been studied until exhaustion by all kinds of scholars prepared to snatch a key from the grave of the nobleman from La Mancha, which could explain the destiny of Spain. In the following pages, the text will not be interpreted from the point of view of economics. Since the works of Piernas hurtado to this very year of the celebration of the centenary, a fair amount of essays have been produced from that perspective. An alternative analysis is proposed here which, starting with the School of Salamanca and going through Arbitrismo, Enlightenment and the liberal economic historiography, ends at «the time of Pierre Vilar». At the end of the journey one shouldn’t be disappointed at verifying that «all depends on the colour of the glass you look through at this matter». The advances in optics have adjusted the distortions caused by faulty lenses and have hence brought different points of view closer together. Today there is considerable agreement amongst scholars.
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Quijote, Cervantes, Historiografía, Decadencia, Don Quixote, Historiography, Decline
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Revista de Historia Económica Año XXIII 2005 n. extra pp. 13-44