Biblioteca Real - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 10:51:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Biblioteca Real - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Power, honour and elites in the 18th century https://historylab.es/power-honour-and-elites-in-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=power-honour-and-elites-in-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/poder-honor-y-elites-en-el-siglo-xviii/ Decree of Philip V, dated 1716, establishing the new Royal Library

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]]> Once the period of the War of Succession was over, with the destruction and loss of documents caused, the new political power announced the creation of the Royal Library. The Eeal library became the current National Library and its origin was surrounded by many intricacies. It was an initiative that clashed with Philip V’s profile as a monarch, who was more inclined to play cards than to read books. The idea had deeper and more complex roots. It was in fact an initiative of Philip V’s confessors, one of the many royalist measures that were being introduced with the new political power. For Jesús Pradells Nadal, the concentration of works in the hands of the political power responded to a need to control publications and also to make it easier to justify the new political power. Works (books, coins, manuscripts, etc.) were acquired both through the purchase of the collections of members of the nobility and the intellectual elite and through confiscations. In 1716, Philip V issued a decree establishing the new library. The decree of 2 June 1716 also established the number of employees and the allocation of their salaries

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