Regalismo - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:16:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Regalismo - 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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]]> Agustín Sánchez Cabello to Grimaldi https://historylab.es/agustin-sanchez-cabello-to-grimaldi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=agustin-sanchez-cabello-to-grimaldi Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:29 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/agustin-sanchez-cabello-a-grimaldi/ The consul Agustín Sánchez Cabello, stationed in Lisbon, reports on the strict orders given in 1767 concerning the Jesuits

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]]> In the 16th century, the prestigious Jesuit order founded by Ignatius of Loyola was an authentic regenerative movement of the Christian religion in the Catholic sphere. Over time, the order acquired enormous political and economic clout. The Jesuits spread their networks throughout almost the entire planet, so that when the monarchies experienced a process of strengthening, they would view this religious institution with suspicion. That moment would come in the second half of the 18th century, when the Catholic monarchies advocated royalism, which was the recovery and strengthening of royal powers. To justify their expulsion, the Jesuits were accused of multiple crimes, including tyrannicide. Indeed, the Jesuits defended tyrannicide when the sovereign did not fulfil his obligations, the most representative case being that of Father Mariana, who defended these postulates as early as the 17th century. In reality, the monarchies did not want to continue to rely on such a powerful institution that still owed its loyalty to the pope, so they were expelled from almost all of Catholic Europe. In Portugal they were expelled in 1759, in France in 1762 and in Spain in 1767.

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