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Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. This book is available in Open Access.

The Peace of Utrecht (1713), which brought an end to the War of the Spanish Succession, was a milestone in global history. Performances of Peace aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. For too long, cultural and political historians have studied early modern international relations in isolation. By studying the political as well as the cultural aspects of this peace (and its concomitant paradoxes) from a broader perspective, this volume aims to shed new light on the relation between diplomacy and performative culture in the public sphere.

El artículo analiza la trayectoria política del obispo catalán de Barcelona, Benet Sala, tras las acusaciones vertidas contra él, por el virrey de Cataluña, en 1705. Tras su caída en desgracia y su posterior encarcelamiento en Madrid, fue expulsado de España y confinado en Aviñón hasta 1713. Desde allí llevó a cabo estrategias para volver a Cataluña, pero borbónicos y austracistas impidieron su vuelta a Barcelona pensando que su regreso sería un problema para las negociaciones de la paz de Utrecht. ; This article examines the political trajectory of the Catalan bishop of Barcelona, Benet Sala, after allegations made against him in 1705 by the Viceroy of Catalonia. After his fall from grace and subsequent imprisonment in Madrid, Benet was expulsed from Spain and confined in Avignon until 1713. From there, the bishop launched a series of strategies in order to return to Catalonia, but both Bourbon and Austrian powers prevented this, thinking it could be a problem in the negotiations of the Peace of Utrecht.