Contemporariness is a concept that began to circulate with the liberal revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. The definition of what was contemporary came into being in intellectual, political, historiographic and literary circles as a new category of historical time referring, at a time when the liberal mentality was forming, to «coetaneous history» or «lived history». With the passage of time, the meaning of contemporariness shifted from its original position as a category of time to denote a historical age…