ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to reconstruct the context in which that attempt to redefine Spain's identity came to light, and to highlight those features which initially articulated that process of a new construction of meaning. It addresses one of the key issues that concerning the monarchy from the final third of the seventeenth century and for quite some time afterwards. The writers of the pamphlet highlighted a state of collective demoralisation and a pessimistic conviction in relation to the pointlessness of the recent changes of the Spanish monarchy. The chapter highlights the crowns of Spain, such as the Corona Real de Espaa por Espaa, given that the one flaunted by the Romans and Carthaginians did not pertain to natural Monarchs, as was also the case with the Goths. The presence and importance of the Goths was indisputable but, in accordance with the origins being considered, it was of interest to blur the Gothic-Scandic connection and to explain their arrival in Hispania.
