Cartillas políticas y catecismos constitucionales en el Cádiz de las Cortes: un género viejo para la creación de una nueva sociedad

Abstract

During the years of the Peninsular War, the simple crossed questions of the religious catechisms, is progressively loaded with a political sense, being a efficient way of transmission for the principles of the brand-new bourgeois social system, in which the concern about the education of the subject, in order to make him/her a citizen, will be the main characteristic. However, it will be possible notice fairly important differences within the pamphlets of this time, depending on the place and time of its publication. In the particular case of Cadiz, it will be possible to divide catechisms in three periods: «fight», «theoretical-pedagogical speculation» and «constitutional indoctrination». On the other hand, the phenomenon of the adaptation of the catechism to political events will be found in others formulas with a religious tradition (fervent speeches. Creeds, etc.), in which sometimes, just like in the first instance, the resort to the satire as a mechanism of denunce will also be present.