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SUMMARY:Romantic Liberalism in Southern Europe\, c. 1820-1850 - Gabriel Pa
 quette (The Johns Hopkins University)
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Balzan Skinner Lecture and Symposium 2012-13 with Balzan-Skinn
 er Fellow Gabriel Paquette (The Johns Hopkins University)\n\nIn 1820\, rev
 olutions broke out in Spain\, Naples\, and Portugal. The revolutionaries o
 verthrew absolutist regimes and forced monarchs to accept written constitu
 tions and some representative institutions. In the case of the Iberian cou
 ntries\, these years also were marked by the final dismemberment of their 
 Atlantic empires. By 1823\, the fledgling liberal governments in Southern 
 Europe had collapsed. The leaders were imprisoned\, exiled\, or executed. 
 Over the course of the succeeding decades\, cycles of revolution and react
 ion dominated the politics of Southern Europe. The political tumult occurr
 ed against the backdrop of\, and helped to inform\, an extraordinarily fer
 tile cultural moment\, Romanticism\, which in turn cross-pollinated the po
 litical thought of the epoch. By focusing on several leading political wri
 ters\, poets\, historians and novelists from different Southern European c
 ountries\, the lecture will explore and analyze the intersections\, connec
 tions\, and divergences between Liberalism and Romanticism in Southern Eur
 ope in the first half of the nineteenth century.\n\nSpeakers include:\n\nP
 rofessor Javier Fernandez-Sebastian (Pais Vasco)\nProfessor Nuno Monteiro 
 (ICS-Lisbon)\nProfessor Brian Hamnett (University of Essex)\nDr Gregorio A
 lonso (University of Leeds) \n\nFull details: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/
 events/2083/
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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