Historiographical Trends about the Late Feudalism and its Interpretation in the Middle Education Level. Reproduction and Material Domination

Abstract

It is transcendental to conduct a study on the historiographical trends by which the middle schools’ handbooks approach the transition to capitalism, in substitution of the Ancient Regime, as a synthesis of the arbitrary classical synchronization from occidental matrix and the surpassing status with regard to the Medieval Dark Ages.

Such position constituted a classist domination framework, imposing a historical conception. The paradigms marked by this notion, have modified the ways in which historians focus on the analysis of Modernity and its approach to middle school. This nineteenth century behaviorism, materialized in the social sciences with the premise of order and progress, imprinted a model by stating a pacific urban vision that should be updated to an internal insurrectional vision of the transition in order to leave behind the liberal explanations that had conceived capitalism as being an external phenomenon of the Ancient Regime.