Defending the House of Austria. Antineutralidad (attributed to Diego Saavedra Fajardo) and Habsburg political thought

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https://doi.org/10.1344/pedralbes2021.41.6

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Saavedra Fajardo, early modern political thought, Habsburg studies, imperial ideology, Spanish political philosophy

Abstract

A recently discovered political and legal treatise, Antineutralidad (1640), has been attracting attention in scholarship. This paper extensively scrutinizes the dating and authorship of the text. Sources found in several European archives have made it possible to establish with certainty the authorship of Diego Saavedra Fajardo and the precise period in which Antineutralidad was written (between January and March 1640). This determination is backed by a comparative analysis of early modern texts. Lastly, explorations based on themes and inner logic reveal highly sophisticated and superior planning, argumentation, structural cohesion and innovation, qualities which ennabled the author to create an overarching framework to defend the House of Austria, including key German and European political and legal themes, integrated and fused with both Spanish Habsburg and Christian universalist thinking.

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2021-12-21

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Monostori, T. (2021) “Defending the House of Austria. Antineutralidad (attributed to Diego Saavedra Fajardo) and Habsburg political thought”, Pedralbes. Revista d’Història Moderna, 41, pp. 193–218. doi: 10.1344/pedralbes2021.41.6.

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Vol. 41 (2021)

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