Tierras de misión: la política confesional de la monarquía de España en las Islas Británicas, 1660-1702
Author
Bravo Lozano, CristinaEntity
UAM. Departamento de Historia ModernaDate
2014-07-10Subjects
Islas Británicas - Politica y gobierno - 1660-1702 - Tesis doctorales; Religión - Catolicismo - Inglaterra - 1660-1702 - Tesis doctorales; Religión - Catolicismo - Irlanda - 1660-1702 - Tesis doctorales; HistoriaNote
Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Historia Moderna: Fecha de lectura: 10-07-2014Esta obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional.
Abstract
The identification of the British Isles as ‘mission lands’ responds to a historiographical proposal. From the missionary perspective, this thesis analyses the guidelines of Spanish confessional politics in the geostrategic space of the Northern Europe. Between 1660 and 1702, it tries to show how the government’s praxis of the pious Carlos II centred on the Irish Mission and the chapel of the Spanish embassy in London. This focus of interpretation explains the duality of the Hispanic political-religious issue as seen in the consulted sources in different European archives and libraries, and the bibliography used.
During recent years, the affairs of Ireland have experienced a continuous historiographical reinterpretation from the view of the Spanish Monarchy. The historical and religious links were fixed in Early Modern history by different forms of service and loyalty: the colleges of nation in the peninsular, the Irish military presence in the army of the Catholic king and the commercial contacts between both kingdoms. In this dynamic of reciprocity and permanent support, the Irish Mission represents one of the main pillars of the confessional model articulated by the monarchy for conserving Catholicism in this island.
The significance of this support structure for Irish priests and friars transcended simply sending of missionaries as agents to defend the catholic religion in Hibernia. The political connotations of this royal patronage grew with the education of royal servants and the ministry of the word. They were destined to propagate the ‘religion of Spain’ and the public recognition of the Habsburg sovereigns’ pious image. The adaptability of the distinctive elements reveals their polyhedral character. The analysis of the internal evolution, from the Cadiz pension and the concession process of the viaticum, is complemented with the definition of the missionary’s identity and others transversal aspects which, like books, helped to remodel the entity of this confessional referent.
On the other hand, the studies relative to the Spanish embassy in London, in the reign of Charles II, have emphasized the figure of the royal agent and his political behaviuor in the British Court. The analysis of these ambassadors’ shows a new line of research to which the historiography has paid less attention. The chapels established by each legate when they arrived in London are an important topic of research. These oratories were interpreted as another missionary instrument of the Spanish monarchy in its confessional politics. The private chapels acquired a public character and notoriety in
London’s court sphere due to their privileged location within the religious space and circles of political power. The aesthetic magnificence, the sumptuousness shown in the liturgical celebrations, the doctrinal sermons preached by native chaplains in English exalted the royal majesty and the Pietas Austriaca.
With a renewed perspective and taking interpretative elements of diverse disciplines, this thesis tries to highlight the multiple aspects of this Caroline representation in the restored court of London. From these premises, the following pages invite one to reflect on a complex polycentric subject of research, with different actors. All of it gives the book a global historiographical perspective1
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