Abstract
This article examines the influence of formulations and lines of European medieval thought and culture during the two main processes of American political history: the American Wars of Independence and Between the States. In these moments of enormous significance, we can perceive a series of formulations alive since Middle Age centuries; principles with a no evident but relevant influence in mentality and perception during the conflicts. These are: federalism, constitutionalism, canon law, the concept of war, the reception of the work of Dante Alighieri and his ‘Divina Commedia’ and the reception of chivalric medieval culture and the Arthurian tradition.
Highlights
Reflexión acerca de las teorías políticas y líneas culturales de la Europa medieval durante las guerras americanas de Independencia y Secesión.‒ Este artículo examina la influencia de formulaciones y líneas de la Europa medieval a través del pensamiento y la cultura durante los dos principales procesos de la historia política Norteamericana: la Guerra de Independencia y la Guerra de Secesión
Cultural trends and political thought of European Late Middle Ages not die with the change of period in fifteenth century
In the case of medieval History is especially developed in the called neomedievalism(s) (Lukes, 2014, pp. 1-2) and as a didactic recourse linked to “living history” (Español, 2019, p. 336). Our study follows those global perspectives2 and attends to diachronic and relationship of thought structures helping to understand how some of the main reflections and political formulations of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, maintains and spreads its influence through centuries, adapting on new circumstances of a new age and a different continent
Summary
The outbreak of the American Between the States War, the worst conflict on internal US history, grew along all the nineteenth century accompanied by the reception, assumption and adaptation of some concepts inherited from European Middle Ages and received halfway between the cultural content and the political reflection.
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