Catalan Identity and Banditry in the Ancient Regime

Abstract

The authors examine how the concepts of nation, country, monarchy, and Spain, which have significantly different meanings today, were understood in the Modern Age. From here, they first examine the disputes that existed among the monarchist Hispanic forces in the Principality of Catalonia under the command of the viceroys and the Catalan powers, enshrined in law and served by the rise in banditry. These disputes gave rise, among other factors, to the growth in the so-called institutional patriotism.