POLITICAL CULTURE, POLICIES OF CULTURE

This book proposes possible avenues for approaching this expanding, and now solidly established, area of ​​historical research that arises from the intersection of culture and politics. Three criteria guide the volume: first, that it is possible to approach this type of study even in prehistoric times, using archaeological sources; second, the benefits of fluid interdisciplinarity; and third, that methodologies are as variable as the specific objects of study. The book opens with a reflection on the categories of culture and politics from the perspective of history, written by Adolfo Carrasco (UVA). These are followed by contributions from the Mediterranean Social Archaeology Group of the UAB on the possibilities of the archaeological method in political and cultural studies; Rafael Narbona (UV) on late medieval chivalric culture in the Crown of Aragon; Salvador Mas (UNED) on the use of classical categories in the Las Casas-Sepúlveda debate; Javier Portús (M. del Prado) on the function of the image in the personal life of the Count-Duke of Olivares; and Pablo Fernández Albaladejo (UAM), who addresses the role played by Martínez Marina in the formation of the Spanish national historical and philological discourse at the end of the 18th century.