Los orígenes historiográficos del concepto de «pactismo»

Abstract

Both Catalan historiography and nationalism have fully assumed a 'pactist' view of medieval and modern Catalan society, before the War of the Spanish Succession, as an opposed model to Castilian authoritarianism. The article seeks the origins of this conceptualization, founding them in the historian Jaume Vicens Vives, who created the term 'pactism' around 1950. He did it being influenced by the former Catalan intellectual tradition, which provided a full range of elements that would remain associated with the concept of 'pactism', as its so-called particularity within the European context, comparable only to the English case, and its link to a moral character of the Catalan people, based on an alleged respect for pacts.