Until the 18th century, the university system did not depend on a political authority from which curricula and operational guidelines emanated. In the ancien régime, the nobility, the church, private individuals or the king could promote universities. In this case, the universities pro religione were those promoted by the regular orders such as the Jesuits. However, as early as the 18th century, the Enlightenment criticised the fact that this type of university, controlled by the regular orders, conditioned the education of students according to their affiliation to one order or another, as well as the fact that their students were too easily awarded the relevant degrees because their academic value was recognised. The Enlightenment tried to centralise education in order to establish quality criteria for it. A necessary step was the secularisation of education in the hands of the Jesuit order in 1768, which the Enlightenment wanted to extend to all other regular orders. Since then, the number of graduates and doctors has declined. In this case, the present text is a complaint by a religious about the provisions of Charles III in this line.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/28506/1/RHM_20.pdf

Resource type: Historical source

Source: AUV, Libro 20º de Claustros, 20 agosto 1794, ff. 259-269

Language: Spanish

Date: 20/8/1794

Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)

Identifier: AUV, Libro 20º de Claustros, 20 agosto 1794, ff. 259-269

Abstract: Complaint by a religious about Charles III's provisions for the secularisation of education, which had been in the hands of the regular orders