Wilhelm von Humboldten garaiko euskal ideologia politikoaren adierazpen ereduetariko bat: "Aintzinako euskaldunen alabantzak"

Abstract

In the context of the War of the Coalition (1793-1795) and the war against Napoleon (1808-1814) new political and ideological formulations were made that justified the opposition to liberal revolution and to the French armies. This counter-revolutionary literature used forms of popular verse to spread the new messages. The verses that contain the composition titled "the praises of the ancient Basques" are a paradigmatic expression of the new ideological profiles that was to define Basque counter-revolutionary thinking: the defence of the Catholic faith, statutory legislation and the Basque language. However, the defence of the Basque language and Basque political institutionalisation was accomplished from liberal postulates.